Track Review

Sometimes, the only way to make music is to trust that it will find a way into listeners who will meet them halfway, not because of trends or algorithms, but in the ears of people who simply connect with it. And somehow, it felt like George Styles leaned into that philosophy while making Better Conversation. […]

There’s no other way to describe Demand Perfection by Reetoxa aside from the fact that it feels like meeting one of the men who wandered out of the movie Materialists. The one who’s walking head high with impossible standards, a fat wallet, and the belief that love is just another luxury purchase. At the heart

Despite the brilliantly melodramatic title, Piper Connolly‘s latest single “body bag”, which sounds like the title for either a horror soundtrack or early-2000s emo compilation album has nothing at all to do with the actual idea of death. The idea that “nobody can do what we all see as justice”, in this song about people

Some songs are about after you’ve made the wrong decision. Some songs are about while you’re making the wrong decision. “Can’t get you out of my mind” by Michellar falls clearly into the latter category. “Can’t get you out of my mind” isn’t a song about healthy emotional boundaries. It isn’t a song about moving

After years fronting the alt-rock outfit Pseutopia, New York City’s Laji George moves to center stage on ‘This Is My World’, his debut solo single, opting for sincerity over flash. Released on July 2, the track is both a declaration of purpose and a personal introduction from a singer ready to embrace vulnerability. With elements

Picture this: walls shaking with distortion, bruised fists, and four musicians playing like they’ve survived the worst and have nothing left to fear. It’s not hard to imagine that that’s exactly what happened in the studio as The Broken Rich recorded Rise. The Broken Rich is a four-piece Australian alt-rock band known for their explosive

There’s something so endearing when artists choose to write about the places and people they know by heart. That’s exactly what Liz Nash does in Livin Like a Local, an irresistibly feel-good ode to community and belonging. Liz Nash is an artist from the quirky little town of Mount Dora, Florida. She’s now back with

It’s no easy task to capture disaster in a song. If you focus too heavily on the sorrow, the result can feel like a musical interpretation of a heritage Minute with distorted guitars; on the other hand, if you swing too far into arena-rock-hero mode, you can find yourself creating something that oddly feels victorious

Political rock spent fifty years of its 20th century in the delusion that bellowing more loudly was the same as saying more. Some band or another would emerge every decade, claim society was falling apart, discover a distortion pedal and then churn out something more suited to a school council election than any real kind