Hadi Ridha, Finnish singer-songwriter, dropped his new release “Love You Again,” and it will make you love him again and again, even stronger. The singer does not leave any chance to not fall for him and his melodies. “Love You… Read More
Familiar as I am with the paradoxes of life in modern industrial housing, that the more humans are packed into concrete compartments the more atomised they become, such spaces are conceived through ideas about modern utopias and socialist dreams. Irrespective… Read More
Stellie – “Colours” (premiere) Photo: Jackson Thornbury / Courtesy of artist Australia’s Stellie is a rising alternative pop singer-songwriter that received more than 700,000 streams of her 2019 single, “Love Me First”. That’s down to her smart, emotionally engaging songwriting… Read More
London’s WheelUP is a producer reviving the broken beat sound of the 1990s, blended with plenty of drum ‘n’ bass, and a modern sensibility. His new EP Wanezi (an ode this Zimbabwean spiritual homeland) is out tomorrow via Tru Thoughts,… Read More
The most notable aspect of Fleet Foxes’ appropriately titled latest release, Shore, is just how much it sounds like being at the beach. That is true of the deliberately wet songs, such as the rhythmic lapping of the waves on… Read More
Becky Warren, an award-winning, risk-taking roots artist who still needs to be properly rewarded for taking on a cold, cruel world while working for a living in Nashville since 2013, has seen the dark side of life. Now she’s shining… Read More
Brett Newski’s particular brand of rock, described as “smash pop”, “diet grunge”, and “slack hop”, among other designations is on full display via the new single “What Are You Smoking?” The track follows the album Don’t Let the Bastards Get… Read More
Paradoxes abound in The Silence, Don DeLillo’s latest novel. Its subject—the end of contemporary life as we know it—is huge. Its size is small, barely over 100 pages. Its premise is high concept: on Super Bowl Sunday, 2022, all technology—a… Read More
Creature Comfort have found a means of carving out their share of the Nashville music scene with their idiosyncratic blend of indie rock and Americana. On “Woke Up Drunk”, acoustic fingerpicking and yearning electric tones mesh with ebullient strings, steady… Read More
Sinuous grooves and heated horns come hand-in-hand with Staten Island’s Budos Band, as their many fans — Madonna, Iggy Pop, and the Wu-Tang Clan among them — know well. The eight-piece group has spent the last 15 years making instrumental… Read More