Reeya Banerjee’s final single before the release of her album This Place is a soaring, echo drenched anthem about grown up love, making tough choices and the bittersweet ache of moving on.
“Upstate Rust” draws its title from a passing comment during Banerjee’s NYC years. Something of an offhand phrase that became a personal badge of identity, and which is now the emotional centerpiece of this record. Continue reading
There’s a stillness in “I Am a Wave” that somehow says everything.
As the final track on Molly Thomas’s upcoming album Tumble Home, it arrives like a quiet exhale after a long and emotional journey – soft but resolute, delicate and yet full of depth.
Co written and performed by Thomas and longtime collaborator Ken Rose, this song is both a gentle parting and a profound summation, speaking to the impermanence of connection and the inevitability of returns. Continue reading
On her long awaited debut album Debo Ray, the Boston based artist bursts on to the scene. This is a record that is both reclamation and revelation. And it is a fearless one too with its exploration of musical genres as well as themes of identity, truth and artistic power.
From the opening notes of “Tell Me What You Want,” Ray makes her intentions clear. The track folds slick R&B rhythms into a spitfire rap verse, a bold and immediate sign that Ray’s musical instincts refuse to stay in one lane. Continue reading
For anyone who’s ever worked a 9 to 5 in New York City, Reeya Banerjee’s latest single “Runner” might hit a little too close to home, only in the best way possible.
It’s a sharp, breathless burst of punk-leaning indie rock that captures the madness of the daily grind with wit, style and honesty. Continue reading
There’s nothing delicate about Gun-Shy Butterfly’s latest single, “Manchild,” released today.
Despite the name, this Philadelphia based duo isn’t here to flutter quietly. They are here to explode.
With distortion drenched guitar hooks, crashing drums and a dual vocal attack that balances melody and rage, “Manchild” arrives like a clenched fist through the speaker. Continue reading
With today’s release of “Nightmare Paradise”, rock veterans SIREN have delivered a hauntingly cinematic track that blurs the line between romance and ruin.
Drawing deep from Americana myth and modern rock energy, the band’s latest single captures the tragic glamour of doomed love with a powerful mix of grit, melody, and storytelling. Continue reading
In her stunning new single “Open Wide”, Havilah Tower delivers a deeply vulnerable meditation on disillusionment, inner clarity and the slow, powerful unraveling that often precedes healing.
“Open Wide” is the kind of song that feels like sitting across from someone who, after a long silence, finally decides to say the thing they have been holding in their chest. And when they say it, the room changes. Continue reading
What if you wandered into a dusky club tucked beneath a city that no longer exists – half Paris, half Chicago, entirely its own dream – and found a band already mid-sway? The singer leans on the piano, her grin razor-sharp, her voice dipped in velvet and irony. The guitarist barely blinks as he peels … Continue reading
With their new single “Faraway,” German alt rock band Stigma step beyond the boundaries of genre into something far more intimate.
It’s not just a single — it’s a statement: raw, atmospheric and charged. And, as the first offering from their upcoming debut album Second Chance, “Faraway” sets the tone for a record that promises to be as personal as it is powerful. Continue reading
With Open Up, George Collins delivers a fresh song that feels instantly familiar. It’s a track that speaks to the bruised optimism of adulthood with the kind of melodic richness and lyrical insight that would feel right at home on a Peter Gabriel or Paul Simon record.
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It’s not just the texture in sounds, although there is a distinct clarity here, with a clean mix, tasteful instrumentation and a deep emotional vibe — it’s the way Collins writes.
Open Up doesn’t just ask for emotional vulnerability; it confronts it. Like some of Peter Gabriel’s best ballads, the song lives in that tender space between fragility and strength, where to open up is to be brave in the face of experience.
Starting out with a steady groove and soft layering — electric piano, spacious guitar work and understated harmonies — all of which serve the heart of the song: Collins’s warm and wise vocals. A genuine invitation to reconnect. Open Up acknowledges the walls we build over time and asks, simply but powerfully, what might happen if we let a little more light in. Continue reading
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