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.
by Leslie Sherman Tagged With: 2025, album, Folk, indie rock, new music, Rock, singer, songwriter, United States
by Leslie Sherman Tagged With: 2025, Folk, indie rock, singer, songwriter, United States

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.
by Leslie Sherman Tagged With: 2025, Folk, indie, new album, new release, singer, songwriter, United States
by KC West Tagged With: acoustic rock, California, Folk, folk rock, Los Angeles, Rock, singer, songwriter, United States

Author and musician Bill See just released his first album in over a decade – Bow To No One. And if you like alternative-folk music, this is definitely something you need to listen to. This album is essentially a guide for surviving today’s version of America. This album came at a much needed time, and […]
by Leslie Sherman Tagged With: 2025, Americana, Folk, indie rock, music video, new music, singer, songwriter, United States

George Collins’s latest single “By the Time” is accompanied by a fantastic music video that takes a timeless country trope – the “Dear John” letter – and re-imagines it with warmth, grit and cinematic flair.
Shot on location at Max’s Steakhouse in Prague, the video places Collins in the middle of a dimly lit barroom, guitar in hand, as he inhabits the role of the weary but resolute narrator ready to close one chapter of his life. The setting is immediately intimate, the kind of bar where the walls carry the weight of countless unspoken stories, and it’s the perfect backdrop for a song about endings and the promise of moving on.
by Joshua (J.Smo) Smotherman Tagged With: Folk, indie, indie pop, Pop, singer, songwriter

In this interview spotlight, I catch up with RALLO to chat about the latest single, Eggshells & Rollercoasters. Regular readers know RALLO has been around our playlists and blog for a while now. Always great to keep supporting our community’s newest releases. Full Q&A along with links and music below. “Eggshells & Rollercoasters” is such […]
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, 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, Folk, indie, new music, singer, songwriter, United States

Brooks John Martin’s latest single “Straight Over Me” is a highlight track featured on his newly released self-titled album.
This is a haunting, slow-burning song that feels like drifting into the unknown. It wraps brooding intensity in lush strings, hypnotic guitar lines and Martin’s signature melancholic baritone which evokes an eerie yet cinematic atmosphere.
