From the first jagged guitar strum, “Threshold” sinks its teeth in and doesn’t let go.
Portland’s alt emo newcomers Moments Of may be stepping out with their debut, but they already sound like a band with something important to say.
by Leslie Sherman Tagged With: 2025, emo, indie rock, new music, new release, New Single, Pop, Punk, singer, songwriter, United States
by Leslie Sherman Tagged With: 2025, Blues, France, gospel, indie, new music, New Single, review, singer, songwriter, United States

With “Wild’s Rising”, Lil’ Red & The Rooster don’t just release another single. They write the next chapter in blues history.
Conceived as a spiritual sequel to B.B. King’s “I’m Going Home”, the song radiates gospel warmth, rootsy authenticity and a deep personal connection to its inspiration. This is a living, breathing celebration of the blues as a vessel for joy, resilience and community.
by Leslie Sherman Tagged With: 2025, Folk, indie, new music, New Single, Pop, singer, songwriter, United States

Sometimes the most powerful songs don’t shout. They whisper, gently guiding you inward.
Saint Tone’s latest single, “Explode,” is exactly that kind of song. It arrives like a quiet wave and leaves like a breath you didn’t know you were holding.
Tender and unflinchingly honest, “Explode” feels much like a longawaited conversation with your own soul.
by Leslie Sherman Tagged With: 2025, Folk, indie, new music, singer, songwriter, United States

Molly Thomas’s new single, “I Am a Wave,” is the final track on her upcoming album Tumble Home, but it was also the very first song written for the project, a fact that gives it a cyclical almost tidal significance.
Written on a porch overlooking Mobile Bay, Alabama, with only stillness and the motion of water for company, “I Am a Wave” is a chamber folk meditative song that speaks to how we move through each other’s lives, separate, then reunite, and carry fragments of each other forwards.
by Leslie Sherman Tagged With: 2025, indie rock, new music, Rock, singer, songwriter, United States
by Leslie Sherman Tagged With: 2025, indie, indie rock, new music, Pop, Prague, singer, songwriter, United States

“Open Up” feels like one of those songs that don’t need to prove anything. It arrives gently on the scene, patient and sincere.
George Collins has a talent for letting a song unfold naturally, and this one does just that. There’s a quiet confidence running through it that only comes from experience, both in life and in songwriting.
by Leslie Sherman Tagged With: 2025, indie, new music, singer, songwriter, United States

Some songs hit you immediately with their polish or power. Others slip in slowly, like a memory you didn’t know you missed. That is where Reeya Banerjee’s “For the First Time” lives.
It’s the kind of track that doesn’t try to be flashy, but ends up being unforgettable because of how honestly it sits with you.
The second single from her upcoming album This Place, “For the First Time” is a reflective ballad about transformation – both quiet and profound. Written in hindsight but emotionally rooted in the kind of moment that reshapes you without warning, the song explores the slow realization that you’re falling in love not just with another person, but with your environment, your life and that version of yourself who’s starting to emerge.
by Leslie Sherman Tagged With: 2025, Folk, indie, new music, singer, songwriter, United States

In her latest single “Crash,” Alabama based singer-songwriter Molly Thomas invites us into a moment of rupture. One that irrevocably altered her life.
Written in the aftermath of a near-fatal car accident, the song is less a retelling of the event than a slow-motion emotional rendering of its aftermath: the shock, the fragility, the pain, and, most poignantly, the unexpected grace of being cared for in the darkest hour.
by Leslie Sherman Tagged With: 2025, Alternative, Germany, indie rock, new music, singer, songwriter, United States

For a band barely four years into their journey, Stigma sound like they’ve lived a thousand lives – and their full length debut “Second Chance” bears the weight of every one of them.
Gritty, melodic, and lyrically rich, this album is a defiant statement of identity and intent from a German alt metal act that refuses to be boxed in by genre conventions or industry trends.
by Leslie Sherman Tagged With: 2025, indie, new music, singer, songwriter, United States
