Ger Carriere is stepping into a lighter, more expansive corner of her sound with her latest single, “Honeybees,” the first glimpse of her upcoming EP. Known for music that radiates intensity and attitude, this track feels looser, sunnier, and more reflective. It’s less about breaking from the past and more about stretching her signature style …
There’s a moment in “BEAUTY TEARS” where everything just seems to hover: the beat, the voice, the emotion. Like the song is deciding whether to break apart or lift off. Amidst this tension GAB SAFA finds her footing and builds a track that moves through feeling.
On paper, the elements are familiar: synth driven production, a steady electronic pulse and vocals that leans into intimacy. But what Safa does with those elements feels more considered than most. Working with producers Myya Lal and Keandra Lal, she creates a sound that’s as interested in space as it is in impact. The quieter moments are not filler. They are where the song breathes, where it gathers itself before pushing forwards once again.
Nova Scotia-raised, Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Malia Rogers returns with “Sunlight (A Good Death),” a healing, Celtic-influenced folk single that approaches loss through the lens of gratitude rather than despair. Rooted in the idea that grief is simply love with nowhere left to go, the song reflects on mourning not as an ending, but as evidence of …
Ontario indie rock/emo trio da nang share “IYKYK,” a fast, cathartic, and deliberately unserious breakup anthem inspired by lead singer John being ghosted after a seven-year relationship. Affectionately dubbed a “sea shanty for the heartbroken,” the track crashes high-energy indie rock into rowdy, chant-along gang vocals, transforming frustration, petty rage, and heartbreak into something meant … Continue reading
Palm Beach, Florida-based singer-songwriter Brit Drozda shares “Flowers From Heaven,” a deeply personal and soulful pop-folk tribute born from the loss of her only brother and longtime musical collaborator, Virgil Price. Blending acoustic warmth with an evolving full-band arrangement, the song transforms profound grief into a hopeful meditation on connection, remembrance, and the signs that … Continue reading
Prince Edward Island singer-songwriter Shane Pendergast shares “Jack Pine,” an introspective yet uplifting folk song inspired by the rugged resilience of its namesake tree. Rooted in earthy imagery, live instrumentation, and Pendergast’s deep connection to the landscape and literary traditions of Prince Edward Island, the track finds beauty in adapting to difficult surroundings without losing … Continue reading
Award-winning singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Kate Schutt releases “Moonsick,” an ethereal jazz-pop reverie inspired by one of the most unforgettable moments in Austrian writer Christiane Ritter’s 1934 memoir A Woman in the Polar Night. Blending timeless songwriting with luminous adult contemporary arrangements, the single captures a transcendent encounter with the Arctic landscape, where moonlight becomes … Continue reading
Vancouver, BC rock outfit CHASE THE BEAR share “This Is What You Wanted,” a dark, groovy, and deceptively danceable new single that turns the collapse of a relationship into something built to move to. Pairing mysterious synth tones with a heavy, rhythmic pulse, an instantly memorable chorus, and the raw energy of rock ‘n’ roll … Continue reading
Experimental duo Allegories share “Pure Comedy,” an ethereal and emotionally volatile new single that moves restlessly between optimism and pessimism, intimacy and aggression, hope and resignation. Shifting through dream pop, indie rock, and electronic textures without settling comfortably into any of them, the track is perhaps the clearest distillation yet of the unpredictable world Adam … Continue reading
The experience of falling in love is one of the most common things in the world, and love songsare as old as songs themselves. But the love songs that make up Low Tide’s second album,Bread & Roses (out October 23), aren’t ordinary love songs. Singer and violinist Eli Obermansaid, “I started affectionately referring to them … Continue reading
There is something refreshingly lived-in about Lila Forde’s Life Can Still Be Sweet. Her sophomore album does not try to package growing up into a neat story. Instead, it makes room for the awkwardness, excitement, heartbreak, humor and uncertainty that come with figuring out who you are. Forde, a Seattle-born, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter with roots … Continue reading
Music can tell a story in so many different ways. Sometimes the words lead us, sometimes it is the melody, and sometimes it is simply the atmosphere created by the instruments themselves. With Rose Wollman’s new single “Alabanza”, all three come together in a piece that is as much about memory and human connection as it is about the events that inspired it.
Written by Mexican composer Francisco Cortés-Álvarez and performed by Wollman with soprano Maria Brea and pianist Dror Baitel, “Alabanza” sets Martín Espada’s Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100, a poem about the Latin American kitchen workers who were working in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Continue reading
Some songs seem to contain an entire landscape within them. You can hear the weather changing, feel the distance between two people, sense the passing of time, all without the songwriter ever having to explain exactly what it means. Modest Mouse’s “Ocean Breathes Salty” has always had that quality, its deceptively simple melody carrying thoughts about mortality, memory and what remains when the people we love are no longer within reach.
Brooks John Martin clearly hears something in that emotional ambiguity. His new version, featuring Lilly Hiatt, takes the Modest Mouse song and slows the pulse, opens the windows and lets a little more air into the room. Inspired in part by Mark Kozelek’s Sun Kil Moon interpretation, Martin’s arrangement is spacious, with his deep baritone and Hiatt’s more vulnerable vocal occupying opposite sides of the same emotional landscape. Continue reading
