Indie pop singer-songwriter Grace Annabella Anderson has launched her new single “Midway,” an infectious mix of indie pop with a rustic aptitude delivered as a biting, wry anthem of empowerment.
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With a sound she describes as Jane Austen meets Joni Mitchell meets Lizzy McAlpine,“Midway” pairs vibrant indie pop textures with twangy, nation impressed model, revealing a witty and refined aspect of Anderson’s songwriting not but explored in her catalog.
Anchored by the incisive line “I’m not the competing type, particularly if you happen to’re my reward,” the monitor takes goal at inflated egos and lowered expectations, reworking frustration into empowerment.
“This was one among my very favourite songs to put in writing,” Anderson explains. “Whereas I discovered its inciting scenario to be irritating, I used to be in a position to reclaim a way of empowerment and pleasure in relaying by means of music what I consider to be an sadly widespread feminine expertise of navigating an over inflated male ego.”
Anderson describes the monitor as “infectious, biting, enjoyable, and wry.” With its tongue-in-cheek candor and playful supply, “Midway” celebrates self value whereas skewering the naked minimal.
“I seemed round at my very own scenario, which paralleled so lots of my associates’, and this music turned a celebration of the bar descending to new lows,” she provides. “It’s an ode to males who, outfitted with condescension and self-importance, put in a fraction of effort and consideration after which count on us to applaud them. Who assume if we don’t reward the naked minimal, we’re not assembly them midway.”
genre-blending collective 2ŁØT releases “Sacrifice (Albert Harvey Remix),” the primary single from their newly introduced EP, The Albert Harvey Remixes, out October twenty fourth. The EP reimagines 4 tracks from the band’s critically praised debut album Entropy, with all remixes helmed by acclaimed Dutch producer Albert Harvey – whose previous work consists of collaborations with David Guetta, Avicii, Armin van Buuren, Stargate, Afrojack, and extra.
A longtime innovator in digital music, Harvey brings each world dancefloor expertise and deep musicality to the mission. With a fame for mixing soulful instrumentation with explosive manufacturing, Harvey was a pure match to reinterpret 2ŁØT’s immersive, live-instrument-based sound by means of a completely new lens.
Welsh born, Yorkshire dwelling Soul/Jazz artist Kat Eaton reveals her model new single ‘Break Free’ together with a run of UK & EU tour dates. Watch the dwell efficiency video right here.
“Break Free is about lastly letting go of management of issues and letting the present take you to the place it’s worthwhile to go. When self-preservation finally ends up feeling extra like self-denial that’s the second we have to settle for our circumstances and break the cycle”, feedback Kat on the monitor.
‘Break Free’ is the primary single from Kat Eaton’s upcoming third studio album ‘What Occurs Now’, due March 2026 on her personal label Cause & Rhyme Data.
Kat has established herself as one of many hardest working and proficient performers in her discipline. Having already toured the UK/EU supporting the likes of Gregory Porter, Jools Holland, Paul Carrack, The Teskey Brothers, Marc Broussard and Mamas Gun, alongside promoting out a number of headline exhibits within the UK and EU (Ronnie Scotts in London, Unterfhart Jazz Membership in Munich, Jazz Membership Etoile in Paris and Jassmine in Warsaw amongst others), she’s additionally co-written with the likes of Caro Emerald, Ruby Turner and Roberta Campos, and damaged by means of to new territories by way of nationwide radio play-listing in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France and Italy.
2021 noticed Kat launch her acclaimed debut album ‘Speak To Me’, and has seen assist throughout BBC Radio 2 & 4, 6Music and Jazz FM within the UK, NPO 5 2 & 1 in The Netherlands, VRT Radio 2 in Belgium, FIP in France. Whereas some debut albums present artists nonetheless discovering their ft and sonic route, the report cemented Kat as unashamedly daring & assured in her talents as a vocalist and songwriter.
Her lengthy awaited second album ‘Truthfully’ is the right evolution, effortlessly merging Soul and Traditional R&B with Blues and Gospel. Having had equally nice radio assist in each UK & EU together with her 2nd report, ’Truthfully’ was effectively acquired by critics and led to appearances at prestigious festivals, Jazz A Toute Heure and St Paul Funk & Soul in France, Cornbury Pageant and Henley Pageant in UK, Cork Jazz Pageant in Eire, Leverkusen Jazz Pageant and Rheingau Musik Pageant in Germany. Her dwell efficiency movies on YouTube (3 dwell variations of tracks from ‘Truthfully’) acquired over 500k views within the first 6 months growing Kat’s fan base immeasurably and Kat now has over 10M streams on Spotify.
Rising alternative-electronic artist and sound designer King Kaye has unveiled his new visible for “if i get burned on the stake, you’re coming with me,” out now! The stripped down monitor’s accompanying video, cinematically impressed by French New Wave movies akin to La Jetée and Breathless, takes viewers right into a dream the place King Kaye has a deep dialog along with his father and is confronted by his shadow self. An ode to his earlier initiatives and earlier sound, the monitor was his first piece of The Darkish Facet of Enlightenment that got here to fruition and remained the true inspiration for your complete mission.
“When the phrases ‘if I get burned on the stake, you’re coming with me’ have been first spoken to me, the response I had was unusual,” says King Kaye as he explains the origins of the discharge. “I couldn’t describe it. It caught me off guard, it pulled me in, kinda turned me on a bit. The entire music and video got here out that very same evening. It’s a fantasy/drama about two people which are looking for themselves on the planet we dwell in now. Not even the occult and spirituality appear unusual anymore.”
“The music video is a clip from my brief movie,” he explains additional. “Via an interview with my father, who not too long ago has change into handicapped, it helped me tie in the place these emotions have been coming from. I hope an observer can discover peace within the video understanding that all of us have comparable experiences, and that we’re all on this collectively.”
Melbourne/San Francisco alt-pop artist & producer ROHAN softly delivers the blunt fact of a bitter breakup with “Killing Her Softly With My Tune” out immediately with a retro, vibrant visualizer. The acoustic-forward ballad takes its identify from Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly With His Tune” that the artist discovered by way of one among his favourite artists and inspirations, Lauryn Hill and Fugees.
Drenched in nostalgia and old-school people/Americana with a contemporary twist, the monitor feels each timeless and confrontational — a breakup letter disguised as an autumn lullaby. The monitor was self-produced and recorded between ROHAN’s bedrooms in Melbourne and San Francisco and one of many main studios, Hyde Avenue Studios, in San Francisco. GRAMMY-nominated Scott McDowell helped engineer it.
On the sincere, intimate monitor, ROHAN shares, “It represents the opposite aspect of Lauryn Hill’s perspective — as a substitute of being the one undone by another person’s music, I’m the one “strumming [her] ache with [my] music”, “telling [her] complete life with [my] phrases” and “killing [her] softly” with the reality she doesn’t need to hear. The music embodies the contradiction of utilizing tenderness to ship judgement, channeling my dismay into one thing candy and melodic. Not a number of different cheekily confrontational & blunt songs characteristic acoustic guitars, pedal metal, tambourine, harmonies, and violins.”
the Albany-raised pop-punk band State Champs launched a brand new music video for his or her newest single, “Frequent Sense,” by way of Pure Noise Data. It’s a punchy, high-energy monitor that’s filled with the band’s signature catchy hooks and dynamic guitars, whereas showcasing a heavier aspect to their evolving sound.
The band shared their sentiments on the brand new monitor beneath:
“We couldn’t wait to share the video for Frequent Sense. This music is deeply private to us. After we have been choosing a director, we knew that Lupe might convey the feelings of the music to life in an exquisite manner. Go test it out!”
That is the primary music the band has put out since their self-titled report got here out in November 2024. The album marked a brand new chapter for the band, showcasing their evolution whereas staying true to their roots. It featured hit singles together with “Gentle Blue,” “Too Late To Say,” and “Silver Cloud.” The album acquired reward from the likes of Rolling Stone, AltPress, Rock Sound and New Noise Journal, admiring its mix of nostalgic Warped Tour-era vitality and trendy pop punk sounds. It cemented them as torchbearers on the scene and is among the band’s most celebrated albums thus far.
This month the band shall be on tour with A Day to Keep in mind and Yellowcard for choose dates. Later this 12 months, they’ll do a small run of exhibits in Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and Virgina at a couple of intimate venues with associates Stateside and Tremendous Generally. They may even be acting at a number of music festivals together with Vans Warped Tour Orlando on November 15 – 16 and Aftershock Pageant on October 2. They may even be again on the Emo’s Not Useless Cruise in January 2026.
Acclaimed rock innovators, Thrice return with Horizons/West, their extremely anticipated new album set for launch on October 3, 2025 by way of Epitaph Data. The announcement arrives alongside the discharge of the report’s blistering lead single, “Gnash,” obtainable now on all streaming platforms. Pre-sale for the Horizons/West vinyl and unique merch is out there now at ThriceMerch.com.
Shaped in Louisville, KY in 2017, Drift Metropolis spans psychedelic terrain with eclectic components of pop, soul, and rock. Consisting of core member Jason Rivers (guitar,vocals, synth), and rotating personnel together with Dave Givan (Jim James, Ray LaMontagne), Billy Lease (Tyler Lance Walker Gill), and Woody Woodmansee (Hawks), Drift Metropolis launched their second LP Deep Reverse, which was blended by Erik Wofford (The Black Angels, Explosions within the Sky, Black Pumas, Invoice Callahan) and mastered by Kevin Ratterman (Brian Wilson, Andrew Fowl, My Morning Jacket). Sky Unconscious adopted in 2024, inciting an identical solid of musicians throughout its inception. “The Seeds” is the primary single from the forthcoming EP Spectral Coronary heart Mosaics, which shall be launched in October of 2025.
People duo Haunted Like Human – Dale Chapman (they/them) and Cody Clark (he/him) – return with a brand new album, American Mythology, this fall.
It’s been 4 years for the reason that launch of 2021’s Tall Tales & Fables, pushed by the success of singles “Ohio” (featured on Spotify’s “Indie Bluegrass playlist in October 2021), and “Run Satan Run,” which not too long ago had a viral TikTok second, catapulting the music to 1 million + streams.
In that point, Dale and Cody have been refining their sound fairly than departing from it. The result’s American Mythology, a shapely set of songs that borrow from common lore in an effort to reveal intimate truths.
Right now, they share the primary single, “Married In Savannah,” a bittersweet people music about watching somebody near you alter. “At its core, its a music about rising up and rising into very totally different folks from those that you just thought you knew,” explains Chapman.
The themes are common whether or not describing a lover, a buddy, or anybody else. “What a disgrace to see a wild factor be tamed,” Chapman sings, their voice akin to Florence Welch’s mezzo-soprano.
American Mythology shall be launched independently on October 17, 2025.
Kansas Metropolis duo Katy Guillen & The Drive – led by music + life companions Katy Guillen (vocals/guitar) and Stephanie Williams (drums) – prides itself on fostering empowered areas for girls in music each onstage and off. This core worth closely influenced the band’s second full-length effort Make That Sound, produced by Megan McCormick (Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah), due October 17, 2025 by way of Are and Be Recordings.
The driving, melodic rocker and second single, “End result,” out August 22, provides a style of what’s to return from the brand new album. “The music is a name to push by means of self doubt and create your house on the planet. You may steer the end result. It’s about discovering your voice and going for what you need in life, regardless of the challenges or hurdles you face,” says Katy.
“[Outcome”] rattles with a relentless rock vibe, combining Moist Leg’s trendy edge and Courtney Barnett’s knack for guitar-based hooks. With screaming guitar and ferocious chops, this energy duo leaves nothing to the creativeness, with a kick-ass throwback storage rock presentation.” – Glide Journal
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