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A Kiss Like This by Magenta Ray

Magenta Ray is Lisa Hart and Mark Larson, a couple and creative partnership a decade deep, and "A Kiss Like This" was written during...

Nemoralia by Tennessee May

Tennessee May named "Nemoralia" after the Roman festival honoring Diana, and the song is built as a direct offering to that same lunar territory,...

Template by Fading Signals

"Template" is the second single off Fading Signals' debut album Metanoia, due September 25th, and it makes a strong case for a Portland five-piece...

ghostdown by Midgriefs

"ghostdown" is the first thing we're hearing from Midgriefs' upcoming album Signs of Laughter, out August 18th, and it lands as a fitting introduction,...

Album: Follow Me by Dr. M.

Dr. M. has spent years building toward this. The Turku-based, 39-year-old songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist first surfaced back in 2019 with "The Climate Song...

LOOSE GROOVES AND GOOD VIBES!

A band born out of lockdown could have gone in a lot of directions. For G-BRO, “We Got A Song” is almost a celebration...

NOT ALL DARKNESS NEEDS TO BE GLAMOROUS!

“Derelict Crawl” by The House Flies is not interested in making darkness particularly glamorous. It is sweaty, repetitive, physical, and a little uncomfortable. Driven...

IT SOUNDS LIKE A LOVE SONG. IT ISN’T!

The title “Always Be Mine” sounds, at first, like a straightforward declaration of love. But in the hands of Ed Sykes and Friends, it...

You by TRUV

"You" was written by Lynn Dresel for her mother, just before her passing, and that context shapes everything about how the song works. Rather...

EP: The Cool Kids by Hifi Riff Raff

Hifi Riff Raff spent years as a Seattle cover band under the name Euphoria before deciding this year to put their own name on...