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...
R. Nelson, the Washington, DC-based R&B artist and producer working independently under Ashy Knuckle Productions, builds his catalog around the kind of internal, rarely-spoken questions most people keep to themselves. "Do I...
Johnny Priest works out of Cologne with a sound that refuses to sit still, mixing hip-hop, reggae, funk, dub, and world influences, sung in German, English, and Spanish. "AlgoRitmo," out June 19th,...
The first thing that stands out about A.E.R.O. FLYNN's "Gunz Blazin" isn't the lyrics or even the hook, it's the groove! Built on rolling basslines, warm synths, and an unmistakable G-Funk pulse,...
Michael Cardamone, the Philadelphia attorney and martial artist making music as DJ Cards, has kept a quick pace since I covered his last single, "Forward," a throwback to early-2010s peak-time trance built...
Before "Verstas," the tribute to his late father I covered a few weeks back, Petri Selin's catalog started here. "Kesä saapuu vihdoin Helsinkiin" "Summer Finally Arrives in Helsinki," came out in October...
Lucía Molina's project, released under the name Luz Uzal, has moved fast since debuting with "38," a Radio Click Digital-praised reinvention of Latin soul, and "alma," a stripped-back, visceral single I covered...
Hidden Sector is the solo project of Tony Samuel, a British artist based out of Dubai, working in the space between electro, Detroit techno, and more experimental electronica. "Harmonic Surrender," out March...
Kiey, born Vưu Tuấn Kiệt, has spent two albums building an identity separate from his family's business legacy as heirs to Biti's, first with 2019's Night To Myself and then 2022's Sunday...
