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Erin Rae Goes Deep on 'Lighten Up' LP

In early 2019, Rae and a fellow singer-songwriter friend, Louise Hayat-Camard of The Dove and The Wolf, made a pact to write a song each day and send it to each other. For Rae, it was about developing...

Cillea Houghton

Watkins Practices Open-Mindedness on Unbiased Eyes LP

Their 2021 LP explores the depths of love and human existence across ten songs, from the mind-opening invitation of introductory track “Good Problems” to challenging the...

Cillea Houghton

Allie Dunn Sheds Fear of Commitment on Debut EP Good As Gone

With a strong desire to bring back that nostalgic Laurel Canyon vibe while adding her own flair, Dunn shows off her sparkling voice and melodies...

Cillea Houghton

Maggie Rose Brings Understanding to the Table with Timely Have a Seat LP

“I really think that sustainability in any career, but especially in music, can only be achieved if you're switching it up and...

Cillea Houghton

Rodney Eldridge Lives Life with Intention on Black Box EP

The North Carolina-born musician and filmmaker discovered his instinct for music while spending his childhood days poised at the piano, playing one-finger chords as he deciphered which notes sounded...

Cillea Houghton

Babehoven Keeps Going When the Going is Tough on Nastavi, Calliope

How do we mourn the living? Maya Bon of Babehoven unpacks this strange, but not uncommon, phenomenon on her new EP, Nastavi, Calliope, out today. The record strings together Bon’s meandering streams of consciousness, connecting moments of apathy to deep swells of emotion. She navigates deeply...

Sara Barron

Kyd the Band Turns His Scars Into Compelling Stories on ‘Season’ EPs

Introduced to music in the Pentecostal church he was raised in Northern California, Guisande was playing drums at mass by the age...

Cillea Houghton

PREMIERETristen Takes a Psychological Lens to Love in "Wrong With You"

” As someone who studied relational group and organizational theories of communication in college, the parting line is less of a joke and more of a...

Cillea Houghton

IAN SWEET Unfolds Roadmap to Recovery on Show Me How You Disappear

k.a. Jillian Medford - on the internet, what you would see is a free-spirited, hilarious and talented artist who has recently taken up the hobby of hat-making. This, however, is not the Jillian that we meet on IAN SWEET’s sophomore...

Sara Barron

Rowan Niemisto Returns with Relatable Sadboy Anthems on Once Again EP

It’s been three and a half years since Rowan Niemisto released his electro R and B masterpiece Gradient. In those three years, Niemisto says he was preoccupied with his first “big boy” job at Detroit’s NPR station, WDET, where he works as a sound engineer and the occasional cameo as a voice actor for...

Sara Barron

Christian Singles Ruminate on Family Ties with Maybe Another Time LP

There is something deeply comforting about Maybe Another Time, the new LP project from Oakland's Rob I. Miller (under the name Christian Singles). Created in the wake of his father’s returning cancer diagnosis, no listener would come in expecting that — understandably so, as examining complex...

Sophia Vaccaro

PREMIEREHayley Sabella Finds Comfort in the Transformative ‘Cape Cod’

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Cillea Houghton