Micko is joined on the monitor by Paul Cuddeford on guitar and ebow, Budge Magraw on bass, and Jan Noble on drums (each ex-Cesarians). The Mellotronics frontman labored carefully with Cuddeford, specifically, on the preparations for the brand new album in between his commitments with Holy Holy, The Boomtown Rats and his solo work. Chris Kimsey (The Rolling Stones), a pal of Micko’s, was concerned in manufacturing recommendation on the monitor.
The brand new monitor can be accompanied by a black-and-white music video, directed by Cameron Poole, which sees Micko wading by water absolutely dressed. “I realised I needed to get within the water,” the singer explains, “and that may maintain appreciable which means in itself with notions of rebirth, cleaning and transformation. That grew to become the aim of the movie and can be the lyrical centre of the tune. The usage of black and white and inventive color was put collectively by Cameron and I. It was the second time we had labored collectively and we each felt had crystallised into one thing symbiotic to the tune.”
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Sam Varga breaks all the principles together with his new single, “Minute Man,” out on all streaming platforms right this moment. Fusing various pop, Americana, and alt-country, Sam Varga transforms fashionable anxiousness into an anthemic love tune for the tip of the world.
“I instructed myself I’d by no means launch a political tune,” Varga admits. However in a world the place the political is private—and survival seems like spectacle—he leans into the chaos, providing a defiant, cinematic monitor that captures the unusual romance of collapse. “Minute Man” doesn’t take sides; as an alternative, it gives a scorched-earth snapshot of younger love in a damaged world: biting, stunning, and broad open to interpretation.
“We’re all made to really feel prefer it’s the tip of the world each day—whether or not it’s or isn’t is above our clearance stage,” Varga writes. “So I wrote it like a sonic inkblot check. The tune doesn’t level fingers. What you’re keen on—or hate—about it in all probability says extra about you than it does about me.” Threaded with lyrical Easter eggs and cultural landmines, “Minute Man” invitations listeners to challenge their very own beliefs, fears, and hopes onto its apocalyptic backdrop.
Sam Varga is a Nashville-based artist mixing his emo roots with Southern grit and singer-songwriter soul. Initially from Louisville, Kentucky, he got here up within the metropolis’s DIY emo scene, reducing his tooth on loud guitars, basement exhibits, and late-night chaos. At house, his dad and mom stuffed the home with ’80s rock, Southern staples, and traditional lyricists, giving him a wealthy musical basis. That blend of uncooked punk vitality and emotional storytelling now fuels a sound that sits someplace between alt-country and rock. It’s gritty but melodic, with acoustic textures and dynamic, genre-blurring instrumentation.
Addictive, sharp, and self-aware, Varga’s music is emotionally unfiltered, self-deprecating, and unflinchingly human. Whether or not he’s unpacking existential dread or providing hard-won hope, his songs are made for lengthy drives, post-party spirals, and people fleeting moments if you simply want all the pieces to make sense for a couple of minutes.
Hearken to “Minute Man” on all streaming platforms:
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This Delight season, Dutch soul pop star Jeangu Macrooy returns together with his first ever queer protest tune ‘Impartial Ladies & Nasty Evil Gays’ out all over the place now.
Contemporary from making his UK dwell debut earlier this 12 months at London’s Hootananny, Jeangu is again with ‘Impartial Ladies & Nasty Evil Gays.’ It hits the nail on the top – a satirical protest tune in opposition to sexism and queerphobia that makes use of humor and anger to dissect the patriarchy: danceable resistance in opposition to scared little males with fragile egos. It’s a enjoyable, catchy bop with an necessary message.
“It’s a humorous, sarcastic protest anthem for the women and the gays” says Jeangu. “I wrote it from the angle of people that blame feminism and queerness for all the pieces that’s “incorrect” on this planet – simply to spotlight how ridiculous and outdated that mindset actually is.”
Whereas engaged on his upcoming fourth album, ‘Younger, Awkward & Lonely’ (out this fall) Jeangu realized that while he’s written protest songs prior to now he’d by no means written one which instantly addresses queer rights. “The time feels proper. The world’s grown more and more hostile in direction of LGBTQ+ individuals, and the rights we’ve fought so laborious for are being challenged in actual and terrifying methods. The tune can be feminist, as a result of girls’s rights are below assault too. It felt pressing, it felt vital and it felt like the appropriate second to make some noise.”
“I would like queer individuals to really feel empowered to dwell even louder”, he continues. “Within the face of hate, we shouldn’t shrink ourselves. We deserve nothing lower than full freedom to be our genuine selves – with out apology, with out compromise. I hope this tune additionally conjures up allies to talk up, present up, and be part of the struggle for equality. As a result of silence shouldn’t be impartial.”
London-raised Iranian indie dream-pop artist Imogen Mahdavi returns along with her newest single, Butter – a wonderful, evocative monitor exploring themes of longing, need, euphoria, and sensuality. With vocals and a melody as easy as its title suggests, Butter floats on an ethereal, atmospheric instrumental that evokes a timeless, dreamy high quality harking back to Lana Del Rey.
Butter is out now in your streaming service of alternative, through APOLLO Distribution.
Hearken to Butter beneath:
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French darkish digital producer Noizinski has introduced his upcoming Outer PenaltiesEP together with his debut single ‘Stasis’ out now through HypnoVizion.
A formidable debut from the newcomer, ‘Stasis’ carves by silence like a blade with mechanical precision. The monitor escalates with eerie momentum, catapulting listeners by textured low-ends into gritty rhythmic undercurrents. Blurring midtempo depth with an suave sense of melancholy, ‘Stasis’ is an exciting lead into Noizinski’s forthcoming Outer Penalties EP.
“‘Stasis’ explores the strain between creation and restraint. My sound is uncooked and forceful, however behind it lies the quiet weight of introversion, and self-doubt. Regardless of the title, ‘Stasis’ hits like a storm. It’s tough and punchy.” – Noizinski
Primarily based in France, quick rising darkish bass innovator Noizinski attracts on genres like techno, bass home, and midtempo for a melancholic but cinematic signature. First surfacing in 2017, Noizinski has been steadily constructing his catalog with dynamic originals and collaborations with Toutant and Lazerpunk. Now making his debut on HypnoVizion, ‘Stasis’ serves as the primary style of his Outer Penalties EP due out later this summer time.
Copenhagen-born, London-based inventive pressure CHILD + the banned returns along with her model new single Ice Dice Sweet. This eccentric new launch serves a glowing summer time anthem, topped with melting trip-hop grooves: An ode to the freaks on the dance flooring; the horny, the hallucinogenic, and the dramatic. Ice Dice Sweet marks the eighth single from CHILD + the banned, and the primary single of her debut EP, to be launched this Fall in full.
Ice Dice Sweet is accessible now in your streaming service of alternative through APOLLO Distribution.
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Following the success of his debut single “Love Me No Extra” ft. Oritsé Williams, which earned critical tastemaker love from BBC INTRODUCING LONDON to KISS XTRA, rising UK vocalist Sammy Angelo delivers his brand-new minimize “No person However You” ft. acclaimed Manchester rapper Geko.
A funk-infused heater laced with smooth basslines and heavy-set percussion, Sammy Angelo immediately instructions the Ayo Beatz (Chip, Yxng Bane, French Montana) instrumental with easy, intricate vocals and potent lyricism. His phrases paint a vivid backdrop for newfound love, constructing rigidity with each intimate second earlier than Geko joins the fold and delivers a robust reflection of lust and need. The 2 vocalists
enchant an electrical synergy, alongside collaboration credit with BRIT-nominated expertise S1mba to type a extremely infectious sound bursting with authority and intent.
Talking on the collaboration, Sammy explains: “Ayo Beatz, S1mba and I organized a studio session to work on one other file. The session was shifting so fast. S1mba and I wrote collectively and have been bouncing concepts off one another so fluidly. It appeared as if it was all falling into place, from the melody to the lyrics, all matching the manufacturing amazingly created by Ayo. After we had the primary demo, Geko wrote a verse, and we immediately fell in love with it. We knew it was the appropriate match.”
Lebanese-Canadian artist Raphaela unveils a brand new aspect of herself with “Muse,” a light-weight, romantic indie-pop single that captures the giddy glow of a love so deep, it turns into your inspiration. It’s a sonic exhale – heat, cinematic, and effervescent – marking a vivid step ahead from the moody introspection of her earlier work. This can be a tune about ease after ache, about lastly discovering the sort of love that doesn’t ask you to shrink, change, or chase.
Written on a sunny summer time afternoon, “Muse” is all comfortable gentle and open-hearted ease. It’s a celebration of the sort of love that feels pure and grounded – the sort that makes you’re feeling seen, regular, and filled with pleasure. Produced with a brand new pop-forward polish, “Muse” balances Raphaela‘s signature emotional honesty with a extra playful tone: daylight in your shoulders, dancing within the kitchen, a tune you wish to get misplaced in.
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By his personal admission, Andy Tongren is an optimist. “I actually do try to discover the silver lining any method I can,” says the Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter. “At my core, I really feel like there’s nothing else I can do.”
That sunny disposition is the glowing core of his debut single “So Good.” The easygoing, compact tune is pushed by an acoustic-backed verse earlier than launching a blissful firework of a refrain that radiates pleasure and heat – good for a summer time playlist or an important year-round dopamine hit.
In one in every of artwork’s nice ironies, Tongren says “So Good” was born of circumstances that have been something however. “It’s humorous – it sort of got here from a darkish place,” he admits. “I’m dwelling in a chilly, darkish basement on the outskirts of Bushwick, making an attempt to get by everyday…Winter was beginning and I feel I simply wished to really feel slightly bit of heat.”
Tongren wished “So Good” to seize a vibe greater than anything. “I wasn’t overly valuable with the strategy to writing,” he explains. “All of the trivialities that comes with mixing artwork and commerce…it’s really easy to get caught up in that. On ‘So Good,’ I didn’t suppose – I simply did. “If it’s slightly bit off, go away it,” he continues. “There’s actual human components on this.”
Minnesota gave her roots, and Tulsa gave her wings. Casii Stephan is an MN-born, indie-pop meets soul-rock singer-songwriter primarily based in Tulsa, OK.
Casii’s “gorgeously emotive voice conjures up comparisons to alt-pop artists like Florence Welch and Fiona Apple with a writing fashion harking back to Carole King” (NPR).
Stephan’s voice is fierce and fearless, however this was not all the time the case. She grew up shy and afraid of her voice till she began writing songs on the household piano when she was 16. Casii moved to Tulsa in 2014 with the intent to surrender her pursuit of a music profession, nonetheless with slightly encouragement from a pal, she continued songwriting and began releasing music in 2016.
Since then, Casii has acquired nationwide songwriting awards, toured regionally and internationally, carried out official SXSW and Folks Alliance showcases, carried out in NYC at A2IM, carried out on the digital Sundance Movie Competition, and profiled on platforms similar to Billboard, NPR, SPIN, and American Songwriter. She lately returned from her first worldwide tour with stops in Eire and the UK. In Jan 2025, she was an official showcase artist on the “Your Roots are Exhibiting” worldwide music convention. She then returned to London to carry out an official SXSW showcase in June.
Again by fashionable demand, Isaac Mizrahi returns to 54 Under together with his band in Isaac Mizrahi Survives Democracy, August 6-9. With music starting from Billie Eilish to Cole Porter, Isaac will go away you with cultural whiplash. Topics vary from social media to politics and a great deal of insider tea. The New York Occasions applauds Mizrahi’s performances noting, “he qualifies as a founding father of a style that fuses efficiency, artwork, music and stand-up comedy.”
Past his cabaret performances, Mizrahi has made an indelible mark on the leisure trade as a performer, host, author, designer, and producer for over 30 years. He lately labored as a consulting producer on the Hulu sitcom, MID CENTURY MODERN, which premiered this spring. He additionally lately appeared in Prime’s Étoile, and can have a job in A24’s upcoming Timothee Chalamet / Gwyneth Paltrow movie, Marty Supreme, to be launched on December 25.
He starred as Amos Hart within the Broadway manufacturing of CHICAGO and has graced phases at venues throughout the nation, together with his annual residencies at New York Metropolis’s Café Carlyle and 54 Under, Bing Live performance Corridor at Stanford College, Reno’s Artown Competition, Houston’s Pastime Heart for the Performing Arts, Connecticut’s Westport Nation Playhouse, LA’s The Wallis, and Florida’s Competition of the Arts BOCA.
Mizrahi can be recognized for his work in movie and tv. He’s the topic and co-creator of the documentary Unzipped, which chronicles the making of his Fall 1994 assortment and gained an award on the Sundance Movie Competition. His tv profession consists of internet hosting The Isaac Mizrahi Present for seven years and serving as a choose on Undertaking Runway: All-Stars all through its seven-season run. Mizrahi has directed productions of A Little Evening Music and The Magic Flute for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Yearly, he directs and narrates his manufacturing of the youngsters’s traditional Peter and The Wolf at The Guggenheim Museum in New York. In June 2023, Mizrahi launched his podcast HELLO ISAAC, the place he engages with superstar visitors in candid conversations about success, failure, and all the pieces in between.
Mizrahi additionally has his personal manufacturing firm, IM Leisure, below which he has a number of initiatives in improvement in tv, theatre and literature. His New York Occasions Bestselling memoir, I.M., was revealed in February 2019.
Earlier this 12 months, Isaac Mizrahi introduced that he’s promoting his archive of one in every of a sort samples produced in his atelier from 1987 – 2012.
For extra info, go to HELLOISAAC.COM.
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