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Nico Guzzi is one of those Italian multi-hyphenates who never picked a single lane. He has written rock records, instrumental albums, film cues, short stories, and poetry, moving between bands, soundtracks, and competitions with the same restlessness. Her Temptations is him in composer mode, away from guitars and lyrics, writing for piano and orchestra with…
The Higher Desires is the kind of project that treats rock songs like messages in a bottle. Led by Seattle songwriter and producer William Walbaum, the band leans into classic alt rock and garage tones but keeps its focus on people rather than pose. Across their catalog they write about veterans, kids, everyday pressure, the…
Rosemary Schultz came to music late and sideways. The Ohio-born, Nashville-based singer served in the military before she ever wrote a song, picking up a guitar afterwards as a way to sort through what was left in her head. Four years on, that private outlet has turned into a small, growing catalog of indie folk…
Karen Salicath Jamali is a Danish-born, US-based composer-pianist with a long trail of serene solo releases and a clear feel for mood. Her work lives where prayer, lullaby, and étude overlap: simple figures, careful voicings, an ear for how a room blooms around a piano. Angel Trio keeps to that lane and sharpens it. “Angel…
Gianfranco Malorgio comes from the Django school. Years of classical guitar study, Hot Club Roma, work with Dario Pinelli, film soundtrack sessions… he’s one of those Italian players who can move from Manouche swing to screen music without dropping tone. Lately he’s been writing pieces aimed straight at sync, especially ones inspired by 70s detective…
Junifer is an alt-pop/folktronica songwriter out of Chico who’s been threading together electronic feel and storytelling since A Little Late. Their thing is small scenes, not big gestures: domestic stuff, late-night thoughts, the way a house sounds when everyone else is asleep. “Thoughts For The Night” fits right into that lane. The song opens on…
Stevie Hawkins has spent decades inside American roots music — drumming for Albert King and John Lee Hooker, fronting his own bands, producing other people’s records, stacking awards. He’s one of those lifer musicians who can move between blues, soul, jazz, and country without sounding like he’s trying on costumes. So when he picks up…
Kat Koan writes like someone who’s spent years framing emotion for the camera. Before music, she worked in TV, building scenes and mood, and you can hear that in everything she does. Her projects jump between electroclash, rock, and pop, but the core stays the same: tension, release, intimacy, unease. She’s worked with Grammy-winning producer…
Gianfranco Malorgio has spent decades moving between jazz, film, and classical guitar. Based in Rome, he’s played with figures from the Gypsy Jazz world like Dorado Schmitt and Angelo Debarre, and his background shows in the precision of his writing. Lately, Malorgio has turned toward composition for film, creating pieces meant to live between sound…
Exzenya is a dark-pop artist and writer with a background in psychology. She builds her songs around emotion and observation, looking at how people lose and regain a sense of self. Everything she releases is performed and recorded by hand, without pitch correction or heavy processing: a choice that keeps the music close to her…