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Tierra Whack Breaks Open Seven New Rooms In "WHACK’S MUSEUM (DELUXE)"
Tierra Whack adds seven new rooms to WHACK’S MUSEUM with shifting flows, harder beats and no guest appearances.

Charles Luberisse
2 hours ago1 min read


Ebony Riley Deals Herself A New Hand In "Sick Of Me"
Ebony Riley faces different versions of herself across the card table in the official video for “Sick Of Me.”

Charles Luberisse
2 hours ago1 min read


Gently Tender Find The Fields Beneath London On "Staring At Fields"
Gently Tender trace London’s buried landscape through “Staring At Fields” ahead of This Was Once Fields.

Charles Luberisse
4 days ago2 min read


Cut The Kids In Half Let "Wild Rabbit" Kick Against The Cage
Cut The Kids In Half push against familiar limits on “Wild Rabbit,” the first single from Animals on Angel Dust.

Charles Luberisse
4 days ago2 min read


KATSEYE Let "Unloveu" Speak Beneath The WILDWORLD Noise
KATSEYE bring the intimate pull of “Unloveu” into the sold-out scale of THE WILDWORLD ARENA TOUR.

Charles Luberisse
5 days ago1 min read


Arde Bogotá Build A Heart From Eleven Moving Parts On "MCGS"
Arde Bogotá connect Spanish musical memory, Los Angeles experimentation and the mechanics of collective rock on Manufacturas del Club de la Gente Sola.

Charles Luberisse
6 days ago1 min read


Doechii Lights The Fuse Again With "BOMBS"
Doechii revives Swamp Sessions with BOMBS, putting breath control, cadence and creative urgency at the center of her return.

Charles Luberisse
6 days ago1 min read


Mötley Crüe Send "Take Me To The Top" Back To The Starting Line
Mötley Crüe revisit the raw Leathür Records version of Take Me To The Top as Too Fast For Love approaches its 45th-anniversary box set.

Charles Luberisse
6 days ago2 min read


Marlon Hoffstadt & David Guetta Get "Caught Up" In The Rush
Written By: Big C Two currents can collide. Marlon Hoffstadt and David Guetta prove it on Caught Up, where bittersweet reflection moves at festival speed. Hoffstadt’s restless trance language brings the spark, meanwhile Guetta’s instinct for scale turns that spark into a horizon-wide release. The smartest move arrives before the impact. Its builds brightness, pulse and density in measured layers, so the drop still has somewhere to go. Made just before Ultra Miami, the collabo

Charles Luberisse
Oct 121 min read


brookelen Finds The Balance Beneath "shadow"
Written By: Big C Photo Credit: Emily Krisky Some songs chase the sun; brookelen lets “shadow” stand close enough to feel what the light can burn away. Drawing from Icarus, the Los Angeles artist turns ambition into a question of balance, consequence and the cost of reaching past your own center. While the guitars widen into a scorched halo, Her vocals make intimacy and distortion feel like two sides of the same thought. While the fuzzed guitar expands the frame, those opposi

Charles Luberisse
Oct 121 min read


Against The Current Make "White Noise" Impossible To Ignore
Written By: Big C Photo Credit: Jordan Kelsey Knight Against The Current have built White Noise like a thought that refuses to leave the back row of your mind. The trio of Chrissy Costanza, Dan Gow and Will Ferri drive the new single with guitars which keep pressing forward while the vocal climbs above the noise. The guitars establish the lane, the drums keep the floor firm and Costanza’s phrasing supplies the lift. It is bright enough for a festival crowd, but the lyric keep

Charles Luberisse
Oct 122 min read


Daniel Pickard Gives Excess A Face On "Nominee"
Written By: Big C Photo Credit: Sami Weller Daniel Pickard walks Nominee into a room where pleasure, power and uncertainty keep changing seats. The UK synth-pop artist frames the song as a young man’s awakening to excess. However, the character never sounds fully convinced by the world opening in front of him. French Touch sheen gives the track movement while the lyric watches consequence of the on coming changes. The production keeps the surface polished enough to tempt the

Charles Luberisse
Oct 121 min read


BALTHVS Let "MANIFEST" Travel Without A Passport
Written By: Big C BALTHVS make MANIFEST feel less like one destination than a passport stamped in rhythm. The title reads like a declaration, but the music stays open to detours. The Bogotá trio’s sixth album moves through drum and bass, vaporwave, Ethiopian color, indie rock and jazz without treating any one reference as a costume. Recorded through live rigs, the sessions keep the players’ touch audible even when the palette turns electronic. A DSM Humboldt and Fender equipm

Charles Luberisse
Oct 121 min read


Carly Rae Jepsen Lets "Day & Night" Keep Going
Written By: Big C Photo Credit: Mikayla LoBasso Carly Rae Jepsen does not treat continuation like an afterthought on Day and Night (Continued). The expanded release adds eight original songs, divided evenly between its daylight and nighttime sides. Giving the record a second horizon, Love Depressed stands near the center of that extension, while Reaching For A Star and Yes widen the emotional range. The sequencing is where the concept earns its name. Bright melodic figures ca

Charles Luberisse
Oct 121 min read


Baylee Lynn Lets Goodbye Carry Gratitude On "Happy That We Met"
Written By: Big C Baylee Lynn does not ask Happy That We Met to choose between heartbreak and gratitude. The song holds both, looking back at the wrong person without pretending the time meant nothing. That balance gives the lyric its backbone and keeps the performance from slipping into easy bitterness. The quieter setup gives the larger moments somewhere to grow. It follows the Greeneville, Tennessee artist’s debut EP Heart On My Sleeve while opening a new chapter. Lynn put

Charles Luberisse
Oct 91 min read


Troye Sivan Sends "She’s The Best" Toward The Dance Floor
Written By: Big C Photo Credit:: Marcus Cooper Troye Sivan opens his fourth album She’s the Best with the confidence of someone who knows longing can still move at full speed. The new single FF is a love song aimed at a person who may not have arrived yet. Its pulse keeps the loneliness from settling into stillness, and the vocal stays intimate even as the production widens around it. Musically, the record understands that dance-pop needs clear layers. Percussion establishes

Charles Luberisse
Oct 91 min read


Small Pond Make The Noise Disappear On "Everything’s Quiet"
Written By: Big C Photo Credit: Adam Gerhold The room is loud, the years move fast, but the right person can make both disappear. Small Pond build Everything’s Quiet around that kind of stillness, turning a restless look at growing older into one of the clearest pop moments from their upcoming album Soft Burn. Guitarist Ian found the verse’s picking pattern during a practice vocalist Molly McDevitt missed while she was sick, and the band followed it until the song had a pulse

Charles Luberisse
Oct 71 min read


Goose Stretch "Good Times // End Times" Past The Late-Night Clock
Written By: Big C Photo Credit: ABC/Randy Holmes Goose knows how to make a few television minutes feel much larger. The Connecticut band brought Good Times // End Times to Jimmy Kimmel Live! during the show’s Brooklyn week and treated the stage like a room built for listening, not a stop between commercials. Rick Mitarotonda lets the guitar line speak without rushing it, while Peter Anspach, Trevor Weekz and Cotter Ellis keep the pulse firm enough for the dynamics to climb. G

Charles Luberisse
Oct 71 min read


Sister Sadie Turn Thirty Hours Of Road Into "Marlboros In Muskogee"
Written By: Big C Photo Credit: Joshua Black Wilkins Some songs need a writing room; Marlboros In Muskogee needed a van, a trailer and nearly thirty hours of road. Sister Sadie turn a demanding run through Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona into a progressive-bluegrass travelogue. Where exhaustion keeps making room for wonder, Deanie Richardson, Dani Flowers, Jon Randall Stewart and Jessi Alexander wrote songs from the trip which included a super blood moon and more highway tha

Charles Luberisse
Oct 72 min read


Nicole Atkins Finds A Ghost In "Singing In The Mirror"
Written By: Big C A mirror is supposed to return the person standing in front of it. Nicole Atkins makes that promise feel uncertain in the visual for “Singing in the Mirror. Its large melodic shape gives Atkins room to sing like a narrator and a warning at the same time. The narrator warns the family about dream crushers while also reminding herself, "when there’s no one else, don’t forget yourself." Instead of dropping the biggest moment into the song all at once, the musi

Charles Luberisse
Oct 71 min read
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