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Pristine in It's Grit, benches' EP 'Kill The Lights' is A New Indie Rock Classic
May 27, 2025
San Diego rock band, benches, has released their latest EP, Kill The Lights, a six song exploration in mental health – fear, detachment, the illumination of reflection.
Author:
Abby Kenna
Se So Neon Embarks on a Conversation With Themselves in "Twit Winter" [Q&A]
May 26, 2025
"It’s a musical inquiry to myself—about what will change and what will remain unchanged over the flow of time."
Author:
DJ Connor
Healy Returns From Two-Year Hiatus With "Running Laps"
May 26, 2025
"Running Laps" is a beautiful exploration of self-sabotage, the struggle to break old habits, and the yearning for self-reinvention.
Author:
Alessandra Rincon
AERI Looks For Relief in Haunting New Single "Okay, Okay"
May 26, 2025
"I wanted to embody the tension between the erratic noise in my head and the movement that gets me through it."
Author:
Alessandra Rincon
Step Into Mollie Elizabeth's Time Machine in "Until We Meet Again"
May 25, 2025
Analogue, phone cords wrapped between your fingers, film cameras flashing... everything about Mollie Elizabeth harkens back to an era almost all of us weren’t alive to experience.
Author:
DJ Connor
Maddie Regent's Debut Album, 'On the phone with my Mom’ is Fearlessly Authentic
May 24, 2025
With a Spotify caption “I don’t know what I'm doing but I'm doing,” it's hard not to get pulled in by the beautiful ambition of Maddie Regent's, On the phone with my Mom.
Author:
DJ Connor
8 OnesToWatch from The Great Escape 2025
May 24, 2025
The Great Escape is one of Europe’s biggest festivals for new music - think SXSW but without the film, tech and comedy. We attended this year’s festival in Brighton, UK and these are some of the highlights.
Author:
Tanja Brinks Toubro
MARIS Delivers the Summer Anthem of 2025 With Latest Single “Mary + I”
May 24, 2025
Fresh off supporting Maude Latour’s Sugar Water Tour, MARIS is stirring up the pop scene with her undeniable vocals and energy.
Author:
Katherine Cardinale
Hazlett Announces Upcoming Album Alongside New Single “tell me something”
May 23, 2025
In his latest release, “tell me something,” Hazlett looks back at a fulfilling relationship, and what happened once that relationship came to an end.
Author:
Rebeccah Blau
Chloe Qisha Explores the Wild Highs and Messy Lows of 'Modern Romance'
May 21, 2025
"The Modern Romance EP is the project of my dreams."
Author:
Alessandra Rincon
Matilda Marigolds Fights Suffoicating Emotion With the Joy of Small Moments in "BEEPBOOP"
April 18, 2025
"When I made 'BEEPBOOP_,' I was literally suffocating in emotion."
Author:
Alessandra Rincon
Joey Valence & Brae Team Up With JPEGMAFIA In Electric Single “WASSUP”
June 19, 2025
The alt-punk, rap duo continue to come into their own sound with a modernization of a classic rap track into an explosive, high-energy club anthem.
Author:
Hillary Safadi
april june's 'baby's out of luck again' Is a Cinematic, Emotional Whirlwind
August 2, 2024
'baby’s out of luck again' shines bright in all its melancholy and art film-inspired glory.
Author:
Giselle Libby
Vienna Vienna Proposes a Second Examination of the World in Debut EP ‘Wonderland’
October 16, 2024
'Wonderland,' the debut EP from Vienna Vienna, puts the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist in vogue.
Author:
René Cobar
Bishop Briggs, Nightly, and more Team Up For Earth Day EP “Inspired By Jane” Inspired by Dr. Jane Goodall
April 22, 2025
In celebration of Apple TV+'s live-action children's series Jane, which premiered the first episode of its last season, the show has also released an accompanying EP, Inspired By Jane.
Author:
Alessandra Rincon
Welcome to the End: Maren Morris’s New Single Backs LGBTQ+ Youth
July 21, 2025
Between dropping her new album Dreamsicle and releasing the hypnotic single “Welcome to the End,” Morris is inviting us into a world that feels as fresh as a sorbet at golden hour.
Author:
Ariana Tibi
Sundressed Re-Introduces Themselves On Thoughtful Self-Titled Album [Q&A] | THE NOISE
August 30, 2023
Intricately woven and deeply personal, the self-titled release from Sundressed offers an intimate glimpse into the inner workings of frontman Trevor Hedges' creative psyche.
Author:
Alessandra Rincon
Lulu Simon Pens a Tender Piece of Hopeful Heartbreak in "Feel Better"
August 26, 2024
“Feel Better” is a melancholy fairy tale filled with as much hope as wistfulness.
Author:
Giselle Libby
The World Is Chloe Moriondo's 'Oyster' On Fourth Studio Album
April 9, 2025
'Oyster' is a thoughtful externalization of the songwriter's prolonged pent-up feelings attached to infatuation and heartbreak, meditations on vulnerability, envy, and, quite frankly, acting on bad ideas.
Author:
Alessandra Rincon
Teen Mortgage Explore Death and Dogma in Debut Album “Devil Ultrasonic Dream” | The Noise
April 29, 2025
'Devil Ultrasonic Dream' is a cathartic reminder to steer into chaos and embrace everything your parents warned you about.
Author:
Carter Fife