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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreThere’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…
Read MoreEvery 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…
Read MoreLampposts 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…
Read MorePicture 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…
Read MoreCertain albums arrive like a key discovered in an old coat pocket—unexpected, familiar in the hand, and suddenly unlocking rooms you thought you’d sealed. M. Byrd’s new project ”A Better Place” is that kind of key…
Read MoreA warehouse light blinks once, twice, then yields to a tide of electricity—so begins “ON STEROIDS”, the debut LP from Toronto hardware duo World News, a record that breathes through cables rather than code…
Read MoreA proverb from nonnas and nurses alike could fit here: care is a slow craft, but it outlives spectacle. Damien McFly’s “for those who care” , an Italian folk-pop/indie-pop album whose quiet engineering…
Read MoreLike a campfire story told to the tide, Tavia Rhodes releases HER SAY and the coast answers back. The Seattle singer-songwriter—whose gigs have matured into a full-band electricity—turns grief, love, and flight into a living document you can hear breathing…
Read MoreRize Michael has released i can’t wait to know you, always, and the Atlanta artist turns farewell into a forward-facing ritual. Inspired by a rediscovered message that promised perpetual curiosity…
Read MorePicture a late tram gliding past the Amsterdam canals, its windows fogging while strangers trade brave hopes; that’s the feeling Secret Rendezvous bottle on “In Between Dreams,” a record about choosing joy after turbulence and learning…
Read MoreLaiddBackZach just blessed us with “No Squares Around Me,” a 12-song thesis on versatility that refuses every lazy label. The Compton-born, Bay-seasoned rapper builds a cohesive arc out of flex, confession, flirtation, and grown-man boundary…
Read MoreA ribbon of tape flickers, the band exhales, and Chris Portka has unveiled “The Album Everyone Wants”—a title that winks while the music simply delivers. The U.S. songwriter’s most collaborative statement to date, this full-band set (eleven songs recorded at NYC’s Sear Sound…
Read MoreJordan Corey has released “The Tunnel + the Light,” a 12-song suite that wears grief and groove in the same silhouette. The Californian alternative-R&B singer-songwriter turns a season of caretaking and surrender into music that breathes like night air…
Read MoreJosh Kramon, also known as Kramon releases “evolutions,” a debut that treats the heart like a laboratory and the hook like a hypothesis. The Los Angeles singer-songwriter, composer, and producer (stylized as KRAMON) builds…
Read MorePrairie dusk doesn’t ask for applause; it simply turns the sky to copper and lets you breathe. Brian Gallagher’s forthcoming album, Wasted Years (out October 3, 2025), behaves the same way—quietly luminous, Americana in its poise, indie-folk at its marrow, with just enough…
Read MoreSparks fly the moment CAR287 release their debut, “Looking Through the Lens,” a record that remembers, argues, laughs, and stitches prairie weather into melody. The Winnipeg quartet—Jay Yarmey (vocals, acoustic guitar), Travis “Trabs” Wog (lead guitar, vocals)…
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