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Under the name Michellar, San Francisco songwriter Michelle Bond is basically starting a second life in music. After years focused on work, family and visual art, she’s come back to the guitar and started writing like she’s making up for lost time. REVERIE …FROM THEN TILL NOW pulls together those late-night songs with help from…
Shani Weiss has been slowly building her name in Melbourne as a songwriter who writes about everyday relationships without dressing them up. Her songs sit in that space between folk, light indie rock and TV-ready pop, with arrangements that feel built for real players in a room. All About Life is her new six-track EP,…
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…
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….
Pennan Brae is a Vancouver songwriter who writes like someone raised on seventies radio and worn cassettes. His records have always circled classic rock, but Paint leans all the way in, helped by Steve Ferrone on drums and a tight small-band feel tracked at Blue Light Studio. “It Ain’t Perfect But It’s Free” opens with…
Bastion’s Wake come out of Delaware with a mix that doesn’t quite sit in one lane: part melodic death, part doom, part symphonic metal, all built around Sami’s vocal and Ray’s guitar writing. What started as a duo playing with programmed backlines has grown into a full band, but the songs still feel like they…
Nicolas Zappa makes electronic music that feels closer to a mood study than a set of tracks. Working alone in his home studio, he writes, performs, and processes everything himself, pulling from years of listening to Reznor, Eno, Vangelis and the rest. His previous work scoring the horror film Rauma, 1968 already showed he could…
Misteriseparli make electronic music that feels like it started with a film scene first and the chords second. The duo’s work has always leaned toward mood over genre rules, and Mondo Exotico pushes that even further, treating each of its six tracks like a short, self-contained story. “Big Tail” opens on seagulls and shoreline noise…
Steel & Velvet build their world from very simple tools: one deep voice, two guitars, and a lot of air around them. Formed by singer Johann Le Roux and guitarist Romuald Ballet-Baz and later joined by Jean-Alain Larreur, they treat American folk and rock standards like campfire stories told in a stone chapel. Everything is…