There is something almost sacred about five o'clock on a Friday afternoon. For the factory worker whose hands have carried the week's weight, the waitress who's smiled through another double shift, or...
Kory Montgomery had his first taste of the road at fifteen, when his band landed an opening slot for B.B. King. Since then, he has opened for Earth, Wind & Fire and...
Peter Hutchison has been writing songs for decades, and Healers 2 is his tenth full-length release. It revives the acoustic-based ensemble he first assembled in the 1990s, and it follows The Healers'...
Würzburg artist Elias Dream centers a quiet kind of guilt in "The Love I Hide," released on August 14th. The song follows a man lying awake beside someone who truly loves him...
You spot them across the room. For a second, everything feels familiar; then reality catches up. The person you once knew so well suddenly feels like a stranger, and all those supposedly...
Country music has always understood that the family story is never entirely private. A mother’s sacrifice, a father’s words, a child growing up, a person facing addiction, a survivor reclaiming her identity—these...
There are artists who make music — and then there are artists who make worlds. John Ross McEwen is firmly in the second category. The Wichita, Kansas singer-songwriter, guitarist, collagist, and experimental...
"Made Love", out September 11th, closes out the debut EP from Never Enough In Love, the Worthing-based project of songwriter and producer Neil Durrant. It's a song about the depth and complexity...
Carmelo Alfano's path to "Is This You?," out September 1st, has taken some genuinely unusual turns. The London-based, Sicilian-rooted artist spent two years studying voice in Modena with the teacher of Luciano...
Independent pop artist Roger K transforms one of the most universal current pressures into pure movement with the release of “Cost of Living,” a vibrant, high-energy track that turns inflation fatigue into...
Childhood can feel like a place we leave without realizing we are leaving it. The imagination remains, but the certainty that anything is possible slowly gives way to practicality, expectation, and time....
For Sergiy Bolotny, folklore becomes more than musical material; it becomes a way of connecting places, histories and identities. A Ukrainian-born violinist making his home in the Netherlands, Bolotny turns toward Dutch...
French chanson has always had a particular talent for making ordinary life feel cinematic. A street corner can become a memory; a passing encounter can become a lifetime. FRANCK’s “La Rengaine” draws...
What does it mean to be human? It is a question that can sound almost too broad to put into a song, yet TaniA Kyllikki’s “HUMAN” builds its identity around exactly that....
