You just gotta love it when an artist doesn’t pretend the mess around them isn’t real. They throw it onto the table and say, “Yeah, let’s talk about it.” Trey Bruce’s All Americans sounds exactly like that, no sugarcoating needed. Three decades of writing songs probably explains why Bruce knows exactly what he wants to
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Everyone can talk about burnout and urban anxiety. Yet somehow, only a few make space for the idea that you don’t have to figure it all out just yet. That’s the kind of comfort you’ll find in fernvie’s newest single, Dito Muna Tayo sa Pagitan. It feels exceptionally fitting for the Manila-based band fernvie to
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Some nights call for fogged-up windows, warm skin, a little reassurance, and a song as catchy and intoxicating as GlowDriver’s latest release, Tell Me. A repeated “tell me baby” could easily go wrong, but somehow, GlowDriver makes it work. What could feel excessive instead becomes a hook, a pulse, and a little spell through contemporary
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Credit: Original Painting by Perri Neri There’s a very particular type of optimism that can only be sustained after so much of it has been exhausted. “MIRROR BALL,” Ryan James Monroe‘s new glam-rock single, is more or less a prayer to the notion that the years somehow make you less appealing. The track reimagines the
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Grief is one of those feelings that seems impossible to put into words without making it sound bigger or smaller than it really is. Somehow, Starboard to Sunset finds its own way to navigate it with their latest single, Without You Here. That ability to express something as deeply personal as grief feels fitting for
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Sandy Martin’s “Ice Candy” is a song about a goddess who has existed since before time, possesses enough power to treat the universe as her personal playground and still cannot find someone to love. This is, objectively, a lot to ask a pop song to explain before the second verse. Fortunately, Martin approaches the premise
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Franxie’s “Stone” could have gone in the way of a particular kind of singer-songwriter who treats emotional distress as an opportunity to place one sad piano chord beneath another until the listener understands that sadness has occurred. Instead, it finds something more interesting in the familiar territory of anxiety, exhaustion, and the difficult business of
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Let’s be honest. A baby-blue Bronco, a few questionable driving decisions, and two sisters figuring out life behind the wheel sounds like a bad idea. But something about Baby Blue Bronco by The Ruffles makes it sound so, so damn fun. And perhaps this latest single feels so adventurous because of the bond shared by
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Falling in love doesn’t always sound like poetry or candlelit dinners. Sometimes, it’s as mundane as End Of The Day by CAR287—like knowing someone’s favorite bands, hockey teams, or exactly how they like their eggs. This is the first single from their five-song EP, set for release in the new year, and it’s already sounding amazing.
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