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Andy Smythe is one of those long-haul British songwriters who never really left the circuit. Based in London, he’s eight albums deep, still writing politically loaded folk-rock in small studios and taking the songs out to folk clubs and festival stages with his band. Quiet Revolution, his next record, leans into that side of him…
Thickshake is a one-person pop project out of Rockhampton, a multi-instrumentalist who decided to stop waiting for the “right time” and just make the songs himself. He writes, records, mixes, and masters in a downstairs music room, pulling from YouTube-era indie pop like Blanks and turning very ordinary mornings – driving to work, wishing he…
John Lebanon is a Boston-based project built on split geography: New York apartments, Providence studios, Beirut shows, and a head full of Lebanese pop, disco and indie guitar music. “Disco Boi” started as a slower, jazz-leaning cut back in 2017; the new “Disco Boi Beirut” feels like the version that finally lets his homesickness, club…
Adam Wedd is a British songwriter with a classic rock heart and a habit of turning everyday chaos into hooks. For “FIGURE IT OUT,” he literally wrote the topline in a car queue on the way to Metropolis Studios, walked in with traffic still in his head, and shaped it on the spot with producer…
Koeve is a teenage urbano artist from Murcia, Spain, working in that space where reggaeton, pop rap and moody synth stuff all bleed into each other. He’s young, but Antes de ser yo already feels like he knows exactly what he wants this project to be: tight songs built around hooks, attitude and very direct…
A Violet In Youth are a Los Angeles band who treat songs like collages: guitar loops, stacked vocals, and pockets of space stitched together by guitarist-songwriter Daniella Lollie with bandmates Lisa Yan, Amanda Erwin, Kelly Kuhn and Garrett Zeile. Their records live in that crossing point between indie rock and weirder, more experimental sounds, where…
LUISA is a Scotland-based composer, pianist and producer who builds electronic pieces out of piano, beats, folk instruments and field recordings taken while living across Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine and Albania as a military spouse. Wanderlust pulls those years into one record, 11 short tracks that feel very tied to real places and events…
Night Wolf comes out of the cinematic side of electronic music, the kind that already lives half in trailers and title sequences. For Lost My Way Home he pulls Norfolk singer Lois Powell into that world, and her voice turns one of his darker instrumentals into something more direct and emotional, still moody but now…
Puerto Rican singer and songwriter Ivelisse Del Carmen has been building a catalog about distance, memory and home. After more than twenty years away from the island she finally started calling herself part of the diaspora, and her recent work leans straight into that realization. Mi Sangre Baila is the point where all of that…
The Iddy Biddies started out at Berklee chasing a pretty specific lane: hooky indie songs with a folk/Americana backbone and story-driven lyrics. On The World Inside, they lean into that idea. The songs feel like pages from the same notebook, all circling the way people act in public versus what’s going on in their heads….