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Micah Marine brought a burst of authenticity back to pop with his second eponymous album, Micah Marine 2. The expansively styled LP traverses the entire pop spectrum, travelling further across

College radio rock tuned into an Americana frequency on Runaway Baby, the latest single from the soon-to-be viral sensation, The Star Prairie Project. With the kind of melody that leaves

In a post-truth world, where reality is easily skewed to deceive and exploit, Tori Lord exemplifies how the malleability of perception is being used far beyond politics with her latest

Alex Abramovitz and His Swing’n Kansas City Jazz Band reminded us what live music was made for with Jumpin’ on Grand, a high-energy Kansas City jazz piece performed live at

Starleen, the electronic alt-pop duo based in Dallas, Texas, opened Evolution // Rebirth like a forgotten piece of Lynchian cinema, with an official music video that feels almost macabre in

Stone Roses-esque basslines, the arcane darkness of Sisters of Mercy reverberating through the harbingering vocals, the cutting angular guitars of Arcade Fire, and renegade-level overdriven amplification root Unsuited firmly in

Luka Sol’s second single, Killin’ It, from his sophomore LP, Mirrors, paints him as an unreckonable alt-pop force who will never be caught bringing a knife to a gunfight. As

Across club floors, festival clips, social feeds and international playlists, BOOTHED has been building the kind of momentum that makes industry ears snap towards the speaker. With more than 24

Anyone Else is wired with the kind of renewed pop-rock electricity that comes from a band finally operating at full force again. After two years as a six-piece shaped by

djamesk13’s discography has always been sludgy, yet on Welcome to This Murder Night, his arsenal of lo-fi krautrock hits becomes cloaked in a darker, more cinematic fever. The independent UK