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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…
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…
Bright Shining Lights is a New Jersey project built around cinematic rock. The band writes like they’re scoring a story instead of chasing a playlist slot. The Sun Is A Star is their second full-length, and it plays like one long arc: space, distance, isolation, contact. It’s built at home in a basement but it…
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…
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…