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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…