FLAKE, the immersive shoegaze mission of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Blake Loggans, is about to launch his debut EP, LAND OF THE USA on October 23 by way of Santa Anna Information. Backed by his dwell band, FLAKE delivers a lush, reverb-drenched sound that blends hypnotic guitar textures, ethereal vocals, and a haunting sense of environment — a sonic panorama equally suited to late-night drives and dimly lit venues.
Contemporary off final week’s announcement of his new partnership with Virgin Music Group, Australian nation mainstay Morgan Evans is celebrating his roots along with his new single “Beer Again Residence.” Hear HERE.
Recorded in Nashville and co-produced by Morgan Evans and Todd Clark, “Beer Again Residence” is an upbeat and nostalgic soundtrack, constructed for a Saturday night time.
“I needed to get out of this city. I wanted one thing actual. Outdated mates, acquainted locations, and salt water,” Evans shares. “I reconnected with the place I got here from, who I used to be, who I wish to be. This document is a journey, and it began with a beer again residence.”
“Beer Again Residence” is Evans’ first single in over two years – a interval of reflection spent in his hometown of Newcastle, Australia, which noticed Morgan tapping right into a deep vein of creativity. Finally, that centering interval in Australia introduced him again to Nashville with a renewed ardour for crafting songs that resonate on a worldwide scale. That full journey and reflective vitality can be captured on his upcoming sophomore album, Metal City, out March 20, 2026. Pre-add / pre-save HERE.
legendary German artist Paul Kalkbrenner returns along with his first new album in seven years. THE ESSENCE is out now by way of Sony Music / B1.
THE ESSENCE is an album that serves as an archive of private states of being. Created over a number of years, partly within the studio, partly in a Berlin residence someplace between mid-century trendy and ’70s luxurious, with actual tungsten bulbs, classic televisions, palm timber, and a mixture of stone, wooden, and fur. THE ESSENCE is Paul Kalkbrenner’s first album since 2018’s Elements of Life and likewise essentially the most stripped-down, natural, and private work of his profession.
“Most of the songs have been made throughout a time once I wasn’t planning to launch an album in any respect,” says Kalkbrenner. “I had really completed with album making, however then I spotted how good it’s to have one thing that connects every thing once more.” A connection that doesn’t depend on an idea however on an perspective. As a result of THE ESSENCE avoids grand gestures and as a substitute is stuffed with musical precision, sounds with patina, and melodies from outdated drafts that have been by no means launched till now. “Among the stuff on right here, I wouldn’t even provide you with right this moment as a result of it’s so unfiltered. However that’s precisely what makes it sturdy.”
Portland rock band Guitar, is happy to share their new album, We’re Headed To The Lake, accessible all over the place now, by way of beloved tastemaker label Julia’s Struggle Recordings. Throughout twelve songs, bandleader Saia Kuli explores the place we’re headed with a optimistic outlook, memorable riffage, and deep hooks. Cassette tapes and CDs of right this moment’s launch might be discovered on juliaswar.com and in document shops worldwide.
“‘We’re Headed to the Lake’ is about “making shit occur” within the religious sense,” Kuli explains. “Despite the entire album’s stream-of-consciousness detours, the widespread thread holding it collectively is drunk pep talks within the toilet mirror, miraculously saving the vibe of an journey gone awry by telling a fantastic joke, being DIY to a fault, and punching above your weight. I believe the album nearly needed to be this affirming or I might’ve given up and left quite a lot of these songs half-stuck within the ether.”
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Beatrix returns to hang-out her personal previous on the brand new single and video “Ghosts of Tennessee.” Now primarily based in Los Angeles, Arielle Kasnetz, who performs underneath the moniker Beatrix, is creating music that feels the truest to herself. For many of her life, she skilled in classical music and graduated from Vanderbilt College in Nashville as a classical voice main. However the tales she advised weren’t hers, the phrases and the emotions any person else’s who had lived a very long time in the past. Now writing and releasing her personal music, she returns to Tennessee like an apparition, to hang-out somebody who knew the previous her.
“Ghosts of Tennessee” is constructed upon a staccato of Morse code, a direct translation of the track’s lyrics. Beatrix’s delicate, double-tracked vocals are met with eerily stunning strings, as she revisits a long-gone relationship, letting its ghost develop into achingly current. Utilizing pedal metal because the voice of the ghost, the track creates an off-kilter, craving environment that mixes indie rock, people and chamber-pop; one thing that takes you someplace between the previous and the longer term, that isn’t the current
The Antlers – the a lot beloved band and recording mission of singer-songwriter-guitarist- producer Peter Silberman – have launched their eagerly awaited new album, Blight. The follow-up to 2021’s rustic, folk-tinged Inexperienced to Gold, Blight asks many questions with out providing straightforward solutions. Over the course of 9 new songs, the Antlers’ founder and first songwriter Silberman reckons with our passively damaging tendencies – absentminded air pollution, unwitting wastefulness, and the inadvertent devastation of the pure world.
Regardless of its heavy themes, Blight is way from a punishing hear. With its adventurous preparations and protracted momentum, it performs extra like an iridescent odyssey. The album options the title monitor, punctuated by a stuttering pulse, with lyrics that reply to trendy society’s compulsion to devour – likening it to ravenous moths. It finds its place in an album that asks us to look at the methods we work together with the pure world and reckon with the reciprocity of this relationship. A lyric video is streaming now on YouTube.
“‘Blight’ is a track addressing consumption via two lenses,” says Silberman. “The primary zooms in on my internal pressure round comfort, and the bargaining carried out to justify the environmental value. I inform myself, ‘I do the most effective that I can.’ The second zooms out on an insect infestation devouring every thing in its path. Possibly these insatiable swarms are merely doing the most effective they will, too.”
Toronto-based indie people band Nice Lake Swimmers share their a lot anticipated ninth studio album Caught Gentle out now. Alongside the total mission, the group shares soothing dwell footage of “For You To Come Round” from Odd Fellows Corridor in St. Catharines, Ontario. The band will embark on a prolonged tour starting October 15 via Canada and the U.S. with help from Elliott BROOD, Rita Visser, Justin Wells and Abe Partridge on choose dates with a number of dates bought out or with few tickets remaining. See all dates beneath and discover tickets and extra info by way of greatlakeswimmers.com/reveals.
Frontman and founder Tony Dekker shares, “‘For You To Come Round’ is about being caught on the station, in a state between being and turning into. It’s concerning the baggage we feature and the emotional lifting it requires for us to endure, and finally, it’s about loneliness and longing, and the shortcoming to actually know somebody. It could be ‘Ready For Godot,’ if that have been a Nineteen Seventies country-folk impressed story track.”
The wait is over for Standing Nonetheless, the extremely anticipated new album from indie rock group Breakup Footwear. That includes latest singles “Malaise”, “Copacetic” and “Brainwash”, Standing Nonetheless has captured the eye of VICE, The Needle Drop, Below The Radar, Earmilk, and extra with its dreamy introspection. Stream Standing Nonetheless now right here, and buy the album at breakupshoes.com.
“The album chronicles the story of my previous few years, centered round feeling dissatisfaction in the established order,” explains guitarist/vocalist Nick Zawisa. “It grapples with feeling sad and complacent, caught dreaming of uprooting my life, which I finally did.”
Zawisa continues: “Standing Nonetheless was produced by Charlie Model (of Miniature Tigers) who we discovered a fantastic sonic match in, and was vastly influential to us. Alongside the assistance of recent band members, he helped craft an album that expands the horizons of the Breakup Footwear sound whereas protecting the confessional lyricism entrance and middle.”
Southern rockers Jet Black Roses have introduced their self-titled debut album, Jet Black Roses, out this October 24. After sharing phases with Styx, Sammy Hagar, and Collective Soul, the album bottles the band’s dwell electrical energy right into a entrance to again experience of rock n roll with a rustic soul.
Pre-save Jet Black Roses right here. Catch the band carry out on Immediately In Nashville right here.
The document leans unapologetically into guitar heavy preparations, from distortion pushed to twangy and at instances, swirling with psychedelic aptitude. Mixing the grit of basic rock with the guts of southern storytelling, layered harmonies and bluesy thrives, Jet Black Roses have crafted a definite sound whereas working with veteran producer and engineer Greg Archilla (Neil Younger, Matchbox Twenty).
“Each band solely will get one first document, and this one is ours. Jet Black Roses has been years within the making—written in again rooms, burned into us on lengthy nights, and carried like a weight we couldn’t put down. These songs are usually not simply chapters, they’re scars and prayers, love letters and battle cries. They belong to the roads we’ve traveled and the individuals who walked them with us. On October twenty fourth, we’re not simply releasing music—we’re throwing open the doorways and letting the world hear the sound of who we’re.” – Jet Black Roses
ryan john clary, one among Boston’s latest indie-rock solo acts, has enchanted audiences along with his tender and earnest strategy to songwriting. His vocals, paying homage to legendary acoustic musician Elliott Smith, have an endearing, blunt high quality that units him aside from his contemporaries.
From an early age, clary obsessed over music. He started enjoying the drums on the age of 4 and realized guitar at 13. From grade college to varsity, the multi-instrumentalist carried out in a rap group in his space, drawing inspiration from artists like Eminem and Dr. Dre, who confirmed him the expressive energy of rhythm and lyricism—additionally enjoying drums in a rock band, taking inspiration from the likes of RHCP, Weapons N’ Roses, and extra. Each initiatives characteristic lifelong childhood mates and collaborators.
From there, he started mixing all of his musical influences (pop, rock, hip hop, and many others.), beginning to produce his personal tracks on the age of 23. In 2013, the acoustic singer-songwriter hit “all-time low.” His life dipped right into a darkish interval. After years of drug abuse and dropping out of faculty, he was hit by a drunk driver, which actually grew his concern of the world and want for self-medication. Agoraphobic and substance reliant. It wasn’t till a few years later that he started his restoration, and he did this via music by beginning a band along with his greatest mates. clary spent the subsequent couple of years relearning the way to make music with out medication and overcoming his agoraphobia by getting out to carry out reveals.
clary stored the mission alive via member adjustments till the pandemic compelled its dissolution in 2020. Exhausted however undeterred, he returned to his past love, the drums, and spent the subsequent three years session drumming for New England artists. In August 2023, he picked up an acoustic guitar and felt a robust pull to return to his personal songwriting. He had now formally gone solo and dedicated to releasing not less than one single per thirty days in 2024. This prolific interval culminated in his debut album LIFE, LOVE & YOU in October of 2024, adopted by his sophomore launch bandit in Could of 2025.
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