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...
Ricky Z. has spent 25 years as one of LA's most in-demand session guitarists, with credits running through Steven Tyler, John Fogerty, Josh Groban, Alan Parsons, and a Latin Grammy for his...
Brightland Shines is Paul Totten's independent debut, but the path to it is anything but a beginner's story. Totten started as a percussionist, earning his BA in Percussion Performance and touring the...
Following last year's American Cosmic Revival Vol. 1: Back At Home, which paid direct tribute to the International Submarine Band's Safe At Home, Christian Parker and Patrick Cleary widened the lens considerably...
Arlen Roth has been at this since he was nine years old, played the first Woodstock reunion concert in 1970, and has spent the decades since working alongside everyone from Simon and...
Ersin Secrin works as a songwriter and lyricist rather than a performing artist, and the “Replay” recording here is an AI-assisted demo built to showcase the song's concept, energy and commercial direction...
"The Hammer Goes Click" is Marcus Christ's second collaboration with producer Bankroll, and it arrives as one of the more structurally ambitious tracks in his catalogue so far. The song opens as...
Every generation finds new ways to make old ideas audible. The protest songs of the 1960s had their guitars, chants and communal refrains; decades later, Deptford Sound Collective’s “#RiseUp” arrives with synthesizers,...
Modern romance has given us more ways than ever to desire each other while remaining emotionally distant. We can obsess from afar, perform intimacy, crave attention, and still keep the most vulnerable...
