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Every once in a while, a rock song comes along that feels like a pulse. Ray Ray Star’s new single “Feelin'” is one of those songs.
It is an unfiltered outpouring of pain, survival and rebirth. A track that takes you straight into the struggle of addiction and the hard but beautiful process of learning to feel again after years of being numb.
MASSEY’s debut Reason For Being hits like a joyful revelation. This is an album that grooves hard, but also thinks deeply. It’s the kind of record that invites you to move, sweat and maybe walk away seeing the world a little differently.
On September 6th, the Oakland Coliseum was electric as Mexico faced Japan in a sold out international friendly. Over 40,000 fans packed the stadium, creating an atmosphere that was loud, colorful, and full of heart. What made the night even more special was the unity that filled the stands. Fans who are usually rivals when […]
There’s something really satisfying about hearing a band hit its stride decades into its career.
With Listen, their new album out now, South Florida’s SIREN prove that time and tenacity can forge something stronger than youthful bravado.
Every now and then, a collaboration comes along that feels less like a project and more like a crossing of destinies. Nefasphere is the new two track release from American composer and Mutantrumpet visionary Ben Neill and Ethiopian producer Mikael Seifu. And it is one of those profound moments – a meeting that folds time, geography and spirit into something quietly revelatory.
Some songs don’t arrive quietly. Zoey Tess’s new single “Knocking at Your Front Door” is one of those songs.
The single opens like a confession with Tess alone at the piano, her voice steady and circling around the wreckage of a country that’s come unglued. Then the band kicks in with pulsing drums, a snarl from the guitars and what starts as a lament turns into a confrontation.
Released at the end of September, Tumble Home is the kind of album that feels like it’s been quietly waiting for the right moment to arrive.
Singer songwriter Molly Thomas delivers a record that is very much an emotional landscape mapped out with honesty, grace and hard won perspective.
There’s a certain unease that settles over you the moment Death Drive begins. This is not the kind of record that gently eases you in – it drags you straight into its storm, confronting human fragility, political decay and the self destructive instincts we can’t seem to shake off.
Revvnant, who is the brainchild of Elias Schutzman, makes no apologies for the weight it carries. This is music that confronts, unsettles and still somehow manages to seduce with moments of strange beauty.
With his latest single “One Step Away” Ray Ray Star delivers a song that is as unflinching as it is deeply personal.
Written in fragments over five years ago during a time when he was barely holding on, the song was recently completed after Ray Ray spoke as a guest at a Narcotics Anonymous convention.
It’s a powerful exploration of addiction, relapse and the daily fight to stay clean. A track that will resonate for anyone navigating that razor edge between despair and a glimmer of hope.
In a year dominated by headlines of polarization, political vitriol and heartbreaking acts of violence, including the recent shooting in the U.S. that left communities shaken, George Collins steps forward with a song that refuses to despair.
“Black and White World”, is an upbeat, blue eyed soul inflected pop/rock track that delivers a serious message wrapped in irresistible hooks. It’s the sound of hope dancing back into the room at a time when many of us need it most.
