Rock Era Magazine

A cocoon sounds like shelter, a place to hide until everything outside has changed. RADARFIELD's "Cocoon" asks what happens when that shelter stops protecting...

Claudia Heinrich-Witzenthaler had heard her son Felix sing for years in a choir, but the studio session for "On my way" was the first...

Every parent eventually hears their own parents come out of their mouth. For ErickOscar, it happened in the middle of disciplining his daughter, when...

Everyone has had that moment of catching their reflection and feeling like they're looking at someone else. That's the starting point for "Cracks in...

Anthony Fesmire spends his weekdays teaching. He's a professor of music at College of the Desert, where he founded the Jazz Studies program, and...

The hardest part of addiction may not be the moment of escape, but waking up to the same problems waiting exactly where you left...

“PALAZZO” by FORRM starts with rock, but it doesn't seem particularly interested in staying there. The Paris-based project moves between psychedelic textures, jazz-inflected touches,...

The internet has made judging strangers remarkably easy. “New Shoes” by ProgAtom looks at what happens when that distance becomes a barrier to empathy,...

Growing up is often sold as becoming a better version of yourself. In reality, it's usually much messier. “The Death of Peter Pan” by...

Everything But The Everything’s “Hollow Heart” takes the emotional scale of the ’80s power ballad and runs it through post-punk guitars, dark-wave atmosphere, and...