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Lost Velvet are a UK duo made up of Robert Butcher and Melissa Morris. Their earlier singles, Endless and Wasted, earned BBC Introducing support and set a tone for what they do best: dark, slow-moving rock with a cinematic streak. Their new single, Make It Alright, opens in near silence — just a soft guitar…
Verticoli have been shaping Tasmania’s alt-rock scene for years. The trio built their name on direct songwriting and the kind of unpolished precision that comes from time on stage. They’ve toured across Australia, sharing bills with Cog, DZ Deathrays, Kingswood, and British India, and their live reputation feeds straight into how they record — loud,…
Frank Joshua is a London-based songwriter who has been steadily releasing singles over the past few years. Days Like These, recorded between Exeter and London, continues that streak with a track built on simplicity and focus. A four-on-the-floor kick gives the song its pulse, keeping it in forward motion. Guitar lines hover quietly in the…
Kendra Connors has been steadily shaping a body of work that threads personal history into cinematic songwriting. Based in Spokane, she’s four singles deep into what feels less like a string of disconnected tracks and more like a mapped-out narrative. Each one moves along a path from loss toward renewal, and Golden House might be…
Nikita Noebel records under the name Walilamdzi, a project rooted in Berlin but drawn to landscapes that stretch far beyond the city. The music sits in that space between instrumental songwriting and film score: guitar-driven, slow-burning, shaped as much by atmosphere as by melody. Noebel calls each set of songs a “chapter,” small arcs that…
Jasmine Gardosi, Dan Whitehouse, and Ryan Pinson come from different corners of the UK music world. Gardosi is best known as a slam champion and former Birmingham Poet Laureate, a performer who merges spoken word, beatboxing, and movement into something closer to theater than page poetry. Whitehouse has built a reputation as a songwriter and…
AUNCE, the project of Anna Edith Daly Edgington, is a London-based artist with roots in Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent. After earning a PhD in Music Production in New Zealand, she returned to the UK to develop a sound that mixes electronics with voice in ways that blur song form and sound art. Her work has appeared…
Lussilia, the Venezuelan-Canadian singer-songwriter now based in Vancouver, has been steadily carving out her space by weaving Latin pop with Venezuelan folk and a mix of global textures. Her songs, often sung across three languages, push for connection across identities. Earlier this year she released her debut EP ten four sixty one, a nod to…
Swamp Music Players are a collective out of Victoria, Canada, who have spent the past few years carving a niche in swamp rock and cosmic Americana. Their music often leans on collaboration, and the new EP Hear It on CN2 continues that approach with contributions from Virginia songwriter Joseph Gearheart and Hollywood vocalist Sugar Parks….
Dark City Kings have been shaping their sound in a weathered homestead outside Black Mountain, North Carolina. The six-piece: Colleen Rose, Merlin Armstrong, Kyrie Antoinette, Bayla Ostrich, Craig Rumney, and JP Kennedy, pull from bands like The Waterboys, Blondie, and The Cure, but the results don’t feel secondhand. They’ve built something that leans on new…