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Sometimes Julie have spent five records working as a full band, folding classic and alternative rock into a tight live setup. On Transition, singer-songwriter duo Monica Sorenson and Rick Walker zoom in on the most direct parts of that project: piano, voice, and a small circle of players from their San Diego orbit. It’s their…
Giardini Oort is a solo project out of Ravenna, built around one person doing everything himself: modular patches, guitars, bass, voice, production. Zero Point is the latest slice from that world, a track that leans into industrial feel and detailed electronic sound design. The song opens on a choral pad and a heavy low end,…
Dream Birds leans into quiet storytelling from the first line. Released under the Bog Witch name out of Decatur, Georgia, it stays close and small on purpose: voice up front, gentle backing, and a scene you can picture as it unfolds. The track opens with that intimate vocal, almost like someone talking you through a…
JD Hinton’s new EP Ways of Seeing feels like it comes from someone who has moved through a few different chapters already: Texas kid, film-and-TV actor, songwriter with credits in Gloria, Tick-Tock, Children on Their Birthdays, and now a quietly heavy Americana voice coming off a praised EP and heading out on the road with…
Robbie Rapids is a Gen X guitar guy who treats classic rock as the base but pulls in pop, folk, alt-country, and metal ideas under the Class 2 Rapids name. He writes with a rotating crew of co-writers and players, but the voice stays consistent across the record. The songs read like separate scenes collected…
Ashot Danielyan is a pianist and improviser who treats the instrument like his home base, even while his catalogue moves through classical, ambient, new age and experimental corners. Awards from songwriting competitions and the Independent Music Awards are on the CV, but the strongest calling card is still how naturally he shapes a melody at…
Stephani Ezatoff comes out of the Pittsburgh gospel world with a voice shaped by church music and old hymns, but this version of “Precious Lord Take My Hand” plants her right inside the classic Nashville tradition. She’s cut it with Brian Speer producing, Johnny Minick on Rhodes and Hammond B3, and a small choir of…
Fiona Amaka has been carving out her own corner of London’s indie scene with a mix of “rock’n’soul,” bluesy vocals, and guitars that lean either into crunch or folk warmth depending on the song. Across singles like “No Daylight,” “Cowards and Shadows,” and “Honesty (Psalm 139)” she’s written about betrayal, faith, and fallout, usually with…
Annstiina is mostly known for art pop, the kind of carefully built songs that live in synths and vocal layers, not bare keys. On field, she drops all of that and sits alone at a piano in Järvenpää on a grey December day, thinking about couples who fell in love and then watched war rearrange…
Tulegon is an Italian musician, producer, and songwriter from Puglia who treats pop structure like a container for poetry experiments. His concept album Pessoa pulls directly from Fernando Pessoa’s world of heteronyms and split selves, writing in Italian, Portuguese, English, French, and his hometown dialect. “All the worlds’dreams” is that idea pushed into a trip-hop…