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Tony Frissore is a Cleveland producer who likes to tuck big ideas inside groove-first tracks. He works in that space where house, funk, and left-field electronic meet, but instead of leaning on hooks or features, he builds everything around feel and message. “Stand for Freedom” is one of his sharpest ideas so far, wrapping a…
Last Relapse are back after more than a decade away, picking up songs that never really left their heads. The Atlanta band always sat in that space where indie rock feels personal but still big enough to fill a room, and this EP is them finally finishing ideas they carried for years. “Everyone Dances Outside…
Ceyeo’s stuff lands in a funny spot where “alt-rock” doesn’t mean big choruses and denim, it means someone treating guitars, drums, and a few left turns like a delivery system for actual thoughts. On Together They Were Nothing, he’s backed by a proper band, Ryan Streeter on guitar, Luca Giachi on bass, Fede Gucciardo on…
Paris composer and guitarist Pascal Boyer sits in that space between post rock and metal where everything feels big but still personal. His work leans on long builds, slow-burn emotion and a sense of drama that feels closer to European art rock. “Run Away,” taken from his EP safe with us, is one of those…
My Lovely Haunting is the project of Alex and Lucy, a Melbourne duo who treat songs like scenes. The name fits: everything they make seems built for dim rooms and late-night screens, with Lucy’s voice out front and Alex filling in the spaces with film-score detail. They call it “Bladerunner folk,” which sounds like a…
Until They Burn Me sound like a band that started with stories before songs. Based out of Ferndale, they pull from alt rock, classic rock, and Americana, but everything circles back to voice and mood: deep, close-mic’d vocals, roomy drums, and desert road feeling guitars. A Carnival of Reveries plays like one long late-night drive….
Televised Mind are a Lincoln rock band built around Ste’s songwriting and a taste for loud, sharp guitars rather than polite indie feel. Their records so far have moved between scrappy hooks and heavier moments, and “Word to the Wise” lands firmly on the rowdier side, helped along by production from Billy Lunn of The…
James Shumway writes the kind of piano music that still believes in big feelings. A classically trained player who started young and stuck with it, he leans toward the Romantic side of the spectrum, chasing long lines and clear emotion. His recent work has moved from solo pieces into more arranged material, and “So Glad…
Kimi Nickerson moves between studio, stage, and sound desk. As a singer and producer, and as an Offie-nominated theatre sound designer and co-founder of KG Records, she treats songs like scenes: built around a central voice, then lit from every side with detail. Her past singles have already picked up support from BBC Introducing and…
Áyal is a queer singer-songwriter working out of New York, somewhere between musical theatre and indie rock. Their songs lean into big-feeling melodies but stay tied to very specific, modern anxieties: apps, isolation, the ways tech gets into your head and rewires what intimacy even means. “Pixelated Perfidy” goes straight at that. It opens like…