A campfire flickers on the prairie while the city votes to forget—rrunnerrss, the eponymous debut by the Austin-born band rrunnerrss led by award-winning songwriter and composer Michael Zapruder, arrives as both shelter and flare…
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A roof leaks from the inside first; by that law of damage and repair, Khi Infinite’s new single “HOUSE” reads like both confession and renovation permit. The Virginia native, fresh from a high-water…
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Heartbreak teaches a sly etiquette: walk softly, speak plainly, and keep your ribs untangled. By that code, Ghanaian-Norwegian artist Akuvi turns “Let Me Know” into a velvet checkpoint, a chill Alternative/Indie R&B…
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Call it velvet jet-lag: Michael O.’s “Lagos 2 London” taxis down the runway with a grin, a postcard of swagger written in guitar ink and pad-soft gradients. The groove is unhurried yet assured…
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A Lagos evening teaches patience: traffic hums, neon blooms, and Calliemajik’s “No Way” settles over the city like warm rainfall. Producer-turned-troubadour, the Nigerian architect behind Magixx and Ayra Star’s “Love don’t cost a dime (Re-up)” now courts intimacy with quieter bravado…
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Unspoken rule of Saturday nights: change your type, change the weather; on “Pretty Boys,” Diana Vickers tests that meteorology with a convertible grin and a sharpened tongue. Following the sherbet-bright comeback…
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A good record behaves like weather: it arrives, it lingers, and it quietly teaches you what to wear. Sloe Paul — Searching / Finding is exactly that kind of climate—nine days of pop-weather calibrated for the slow slide into autumn…
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There’s a superstition that moths trust the porch light more than the moon; Meredith Adelaide’s “To Believe I’m the Sun” wonders what happens when that porch light is your own chest, humming. Across eight pieces of Indie Folk and Soft Pop parsimony…
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Every scar keeps time like a metronome; on Chris Rusin’s Songs From A Secret Room, that pulse becomes melody—ten pieces of Indie Folk/Americana rendered with candlelight patience and front-porch candor. The Colorado songwriter, now three years…
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Cold seasons teach a quiet grammar: to stay, to breathe, to bear the weather. Laura Lucas’s latest single “Let The Winter Have Me,” arriving through Nettwerk, alongside her album “There’s a Place I Go,” treats that grammar as a vow…
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Television once taught us that a hug and a laugh track could mend anything; Z’cano’s “Friends,” the second single from his concept EP 22 Minutes, slips that myth onto a turntable and lets it revolve until the varnish shows grain. The American singer channels…
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There’s an old kitchen proverb that warm bread heals arguments; Otis Kane’s Love Is Alive arrives with the same oven heat—steam, sweetness, and a patience that softens the room. He tilts Neo-Soul toward sunlight, binding Contemporary R&B sheen to tactile warmth…
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Old cartographers wrote “Here be dragons” at the map’s edges; Bre Kennedy plants her lighthouse there with “Looking For,” a mid-tempo alt-pop glow destined for late drives and tidy epiphanies. The New Nashville storyteller releases a song…
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Old philosophers say the hardest person to be honest with is your own reflection; on PURE ILLUSION, Jhon Allan basically locks himself in a Stockholm apartment and refuses to look away from the mirror. The Swedish-Peruvian…
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Every wardrobe hides one shirt that smells more of memory than detergent; Tastes Like Nostalgia operates exactly like that garment you can’t quite throw away. Under the moniker Daybreaker, singer-songwriter Chelsea Balzer turns…
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Lampposts flicker on over New York as if they’re highlighters, and Amy Jay’s MNEMONICS feels like the scribbled notes they suddenly expose. Across ten songs, the indie pop architect pulls threads from rock and folk, weaving a sonic…
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Picture a roadside bonfire licking a Pacific dusk—contained, glowing, and just risky enough to feel alive. That’s the temperature of Jake Cassman’s “Idling High,” a debut album that treats malaise like tinder and lights it with a dark, sidelong grin…
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GIULIA BE has released “fool for love,” the first English chapter of her trilingual, audiovisual project, “GIULIA BE.” Built for bright rooms and freeway horizons, the single is commercial pop with electro-pop tendons…
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