Track Review

Abyss16’s “The Other CAR” Is Hip-Hop With Pride, Culture, And Bars

A hip-hop track so good it feels like a street poster with graffiti fonts and vibrant colors made to be plastered on every corner of the city? That’s the exact energy Abyss16‘s “The Other CAR” gives, where pride, culture, and bars is present in every beat. Hailing from Oxnard, United States, Abyss16 steps on the […]

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“Wasteland Whispers” Is Quiet, Deliberate, and Utterly Disarming in Its Refusal to Dress Pain Up as Spectacle

Every so often, a song comes along that doesn’t try to overwhelm you. It just sits beside you, patiently, until you realize it’s been saying something important the whole time. “Wasteland Whispers,” the new track from Indianapolis alt-rock outfit Pentrilox, is one of those songs. It’s not a cry into the void so much as

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“Somebody’s Always Doin’ Something 2 Somebody” Is True And DownTown Mystic Knows It Too Well

Don’t you just love it when a track has a good amount of balance between wit and groove? Especially when underneath its tongue in cheek surface lies something ironic, clever, and real. That’s how DownTown Mystic nails his latest comeback track “Somebody’s Always Doin’ Something 2 Somebody”. DownTown Mystic is the brainchild of American Rocker

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Blind Man’s Daughter’s “Harbor Boulevard” Sounds Like Memory Itself

Every artist has one song that feels less like a career move and more like an act of preservation; a way to keep someone, or something, alive in sound. For Ashley Wolfe, the Denver-based artist behind Blind Man’s Daughter, that song is “Harbor Boulevard.” A departure from her usual genre-defying mix of progressive rock, metal,

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MayaAgnes’ “Starve” Isn’t Pretty, It Hurts And Breaks Free

There’s something so fragile and human when a song is born out of a personal experience. That’s how MayaAgnes’ “Starve” gets into your head, then you’re never the same. Soul-pop artist and storyteller MayaAgnes is back with Starve, her boldest release to date, which blends adult contemporary pop, cinematic rock, and intimate indie textures. What’s

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“The Ones Remembered” Is Proof That Sincerity Still Matters, Even When Written in Binary

“I’m my biggest fan,” Trueclaw admits, and honestly, fair enough. If I wrote something this pretty, I’d probably be insufferable too. That line isn’t bravado; it’s survival. When you’re an independent artist from Uppsala, Sweden; writing, producing, mixing, and probably spiritually communing with your DAW at 3 a.m, self-belief isn’t a luxury. It’s a fuel

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By the End, “Truth Over Lies” Feels Like a Conversation That’s Still Happening After the Song

When I reviewed Michellar’s “Never Say Sorry,” I called it a diary entry set to music; a song that quietly refused to play by the rules of modern pop vulnerability. It was small, deliberate, and human in all the ways streaming culture tends to erase. But with “Truth Over Lies,” Michellar flips that intimacy outward.

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Play Trueclaw’s “One Road” If You’re Learning To Love Your Own Rhythm

Music hits different when it captures the process alive in sound instead of simply just glorifying the grind. Today’s rare cut is Trueclaw, stepping into the arena with a transformative single “One Road.” Trueclaw is a rising independent artist from Uppsala, Sweden. In this one-person project, Trueclaw blends advanced AI tools such as Suno AI

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Lisa Lim’s “Lucky One” Doesn’t Reinvent Anything; It Doesn’t Need To

Lisa Lim’s “Lucky One” is one of those songs that sneaks up on you. It doesn’t hit you over the head with drama, and it doesn’t drown in sentimentality. Instead, it just breathes; slow, steady, confident. The kind of song that sounds like it’s been sitting by a river for an hour, thinking about life

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“Great Escape Famine” Shouldn’t Work but It Does, Spectacularly

Imagine you’re listening to a song about famine and instead of despair, it gives you hope. And not, like, Coldplay hope. Actual, data-driven, Steven Pinker-style hope. That’s “Great Escape Famine,” the second track on Transgalactica’s upcoming album Onwards and Upwards, and the middle child of their “Great Escape” trilogy which, by the way, sounds less

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