Toronto, Canada-based post-punk/alt-rock artist ThxSoMch sinks into nostalgia on the unrelenting, equally exhausting and gentle “Sound of You Laughing” out now through Atlantic Data and captures the wistful longing of flipping via previous photographs in its matching music video.
The newest commanding monitor took form after musician Flawed Mangoes despatched the artist varied instrumentals, whose evocative guitar riff grew to become the tune’s basis. After enjoying round with them and sending them to collaborator LMG for drum additions, ThxSoMch was so impressed, he freestyled almost the entire tune in a single go. The artist shares, “I recorded it the following day and couldn’t cease listening to it. It sat on my laptop for some time till I revisited it with grayskies whereas making extra music. ‘Sound of You Laughing’ is each consolation and discomfort.” Defiant and uninhibited, every line is delivered with the slight twinge of ache that comes with digging up the previous.
Philadelphia band Her New Knife are excited to share their cowl of Björk’s “Pagan Poetry,” digitally accessible all over the place now through the tastemaking Philly label Julia’s Struggle Recordings. A guitar-forward tackle the fan-favorite monitor off Björk’s 2001 report Vespertine, in the present day’s cowl sees the band infuse discordant instrumentation right into a deeply emotional soundscape. Her New Knife strives for sonic innovation, turning a well-known monitor into a totally new expertise.
“Björk as an artist has at all times impressed me. In her songwriting, I’ve at all times discovered one thing crucial to be aware of. Whether or not that be her lyrical imagery, sonic texturing, expression and inflection of the voice, or the pursuit of one thing new and private and uncooked in her music,” guitarist and vocalist Edgar Atencio explains.
“In 2024, Ben [Kachler] and I recorded largely guitar (classical and electrical) and voice (further vocals by Dylan Vaisey & Cassidy Hammond), in juxtaposition to the various and luxurious orchestration of the unique monitor, I wished our model to be sparse and extra targeted on simply guitar and voice- in an try to embody the rawness of Björk’s efficiency. This cowl is one thing that I felt we may do in our personal method, as a tribute to all these points of her music that I maintain shut.”
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New Zealand-born, Gold Coast-based, Sam Osbourne Bryant is a 21-year-old multi-instrumentalist bringing a uncooked, emotional edge to the world of different rock. With a sound that channels the spirit of Oasis, Nirvana, and Stone Temple Pilots, Sam’s music blends grunge, Britpop, and exhausting rock into one thing each nostalgic and urgently present.
His new single “Cry” captures the stressed, heavy-hearted frustration of younger maturity—feeling caught, working in circles, and wrestling with the worry that nothing may ever change. With gritty guitars and laid-back vocals, “Cry” simmers with inside rigidity. Strains like “I can’t shake this sense of being wasted” and “They informed me that it will be alright / All you want is just a bit persistence / I don’t bought no time to attend” reduce deep into a way of disillusionment that defines a era.
Sam’s journey into music started the second he noticed the video for “Welcome to the Jungle” by Weapons N’ Roses at age 12. What began with a guitar rapidly grew into self-taught vocals, drums, and bass. Now, he’s crafting songs that ask a vital query: Why ought to the world neglect rock?
Fiercely DIY and emotionally sincere, Sam Osbourne Bryant is a part of the brand new wave pushing rock again into the highlight—with grit, with feeling, and with one thing actual to say.
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Following final week’s launch of Joybomb‘s “I, Paparazzi”, the Memphis alt rockers in the present day drop their noir efficiency vid collab with Birmingham, Alabama, manufacturing home Lawnchair Youth.
This new visible captures the marginally re-tooled 2025 incarnation of Joybomb, with new member Luki Luvsik (guitar) becoming a member of Grant Beatty (vocals/guitar), Conner Sales space (vocals, bass), and Xander Sinclair (drums).
Hinting on the inconvenient truths inside, “I, Paparazzi” begins in foreboding hushed tones earlier than giving solution to the sort of stadium-sized belter that has been an indicator of the band’s current output.
Set firmly within the lyrical websites of Joybomb frontman Beatty are mind rot and the drug-like intoxication of social media. He explains, “‘I, Paparazzi’ is about self-surveillance, the diploma to which we exploit ourselves and finely tailor and current actual human experiences and wishes to feed curated audiences for our personal dopamine, social gratification, and sense of goal or aggrandizement.”
For individuals who encountered Joybomb’s Trendy Scripture EP, this sort of charged social commentary will come as little shock. Bottomless shopper tradition, chemical escapism, absurd political theater, and tragic romance had been all variously skewered at factors throughout the six tracks on Trendy Scripture. This targeted assault on a few of the pillars of contemporary life comes not from some extent of indifferent superiority, however from the acute understanding of being an lively participant. The result’s an explosive vitality that channels interior frustrations at succumbing to the poisonous trappings of latest residing.
Keep tuned for extra for Joybomb all year long.
Wolfberg is a rising different artist and singer-songwriter primarily based in Los Angeles, California. With a deep, commanding baritone and a lifelong love of music, Wolfberg has been writing songs since childhood, mixing uncooked emotion with cinematic soundscapes that bridge the worlds of indie, different, and grownup modern.
His music combines intimate, stripped-down verses with sweeping, nostalgic choruses—fusing natural and digital components like electrical guitars, heat synths, evocative samples, and luxurious strings. The result’s a dynamic sound that feels each deeply private and sonically expansive.
Wolfberg’s journey into the highlight started after a life-altering occasion: he misplaced the whole lot he owned within the current Palisades fires. That second grew to become the spark to lastly pursue his ardour full-time. A father of two, he channels each heartbreak and hope into his songwriting.
Regardless of being a brand new artist, Wolfberg is already gaining severe traction—garnering over 60,000 month-to-month listeners on Spotify and racking up a whole lot of 1000’s of views on YouTube.
Rising London artist Ray Laurél (he/they)returns together with his newest single, I Wantchu – a vibrant, groove-laden monitor that marks the start of an thrilling new period. Mixing components of indie, soul, and funk into an infectious pop construction, I Wantchu is a feel-good, genre-blurring anthem made to maneuver to.
I Wantchu is offered now in your streaming service of alternative through APOLLO Distribution.
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South African producer and DJ Da Capo has launched his extremely anticipated new album, ’Indigo Little one II: Love & Frequency’. A follow-up to the beloved ’Indigo Little one’, this undertaking marks a robust new chapter in his sonic journey; a deeply private reflection on development, sound, and spirit.
Because the title suggests, Love & Frequency is each a tribute to the music that formed him and a celebration of how his sound has developed over time. Rooted within the idea of the “Indigo Little one” (people identified for creativity, instinct, and goal), the album is a continuation of Da Capo’s ongoing mission to stretch the bounds of Home music, particularly Afrohouse.
Throughout the undertaking, Da Capo’s signature mix of wealthy instrumentation and world influences meets daring new experimentation. Listeners can count on dynamic collaborations, together with a heartfelt monitor with Elaine, the soulful and genre-bending “Free Spirit” that includes FKA Mash and Julian Place, and the emotionally charged “Phakade Lami” that includes Mawhoo and SoulStar. The visible world is delivered to life via a collaboration with multi-award-winning illustrator PR$DNT HONEY, whose three-piece album art work displays the depth and intentionality of the music.
Talking on the album Da Capo commented, “This album is a mirrored image of my musical journey. It’s about who I’ve change into via music, how I join with the world, and the love and frequency I’m repeatedly studying share via sound.”
A deeply private, boundary-pushing physique of labor exploring creativity, instinct, and evolution.
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Following his viral Twitch “HIT-A-THON” and brand-new album blame the chat, multi-platinum hip hop star DDG delivers his newest anthem “That’s My Ball” in the present day. Get it HERE in any respect DSPs through Epic Data.
Tailor made for the summer season, the tune has been viral even earlier than an official launch. DDG has been teasing followers with clips from the monitor on TikTok for the previous week, and followers have been clamoring for him to formally launch it. The tune’s chorus (“that’s my ball”), a catch phrase for somebody’s love curiosity, has change into a preferred saying after DDG coined the time period throughout Streamer College. It even has been extensively used on the brand new season of Love Island USA, highlighting it’s virality.
“That’s My Ball” is the most recent hit from the prolific hip hop artist. DDG delivered his album blame the chat this Could on the heels of his unprecedented Twitch “HIT-A-THON.” Whereas DDG has at all times held a robust relationship together with his followers through the powers of the web and social media, he took issues to an entire new degree this spring, planting his flag firmly on the forefront of a vanguard of artists. Dubbed “one of the vital highly effective streamers in Hip-Hop” by Complicated, DDG took issues into the stratosphere when he livestreamed the album creation course of over the course of seven days on his Twitch channel ([twitch.tv/ddg]right here). Through the livestream, the place he was reside 24 hours per day whereas he labored on the brand new physique of labor, he introduced followers in on the method of making an album through the ability of Twitch chat, workshopping his artwork with him. It noticed producers and visitor artists come by to write down and report, in addition to collaborate with DDG in real-time, actually laying a blueprint for a brand new method of making artwork. Followers gave suggestions on lyrics, beat decisions, and extra, and noticed a full 360 view of every week within the lifetime of an artist finishing an album– even doing media interviews and content material whereas reside, and culminated in him being the #1 reside channel on this planet on Twitch by the top, and reached a milestone subscription quantity. Highlighting his innovation, artists who got here to report with him included Ty Dolla $ign, Wealthy the Child, BIA DaBaby, Wiz Khalifa, and extra. The album consists of the fan-favorite viral monitor “pink dreads,” which bounce began the journey to the discharge of blame the chat.
Over the past a number of years, DDG has vaulted to the higher echelon of the tradition. With over a billion and a half streams throughout his catalogue, the artist has achieved RIAA certifications for a number of hits – together with “I’m Geekin” (gold), “Arguments” (gold), “Hood Melody” (gold) and break-out smash “Moonwalking In Calabasas” (double platinum). His standing has been cemented by protecting the coveted XXL Freshman Class challenge and being named to Forbes 30 Underneath 30 for music.
As soon as once more, DDG is ready to take his profession to new heights.
Following the soul-stirring launch of “Crazyglue and Skeletons,” The Bapti$$, the boundary-pushing musical rebirth of multi-instrumentalist Joseph LaPlante, returns with “My Father’s Sins,” a uncooked, introspective new single taken from his just-announced debut album, Pop Cult(ure), out September twenty sixth.
Anchored in aching guitar and a deep 808 heartbeat, “My Father’s Sins” is a confessional providing that digs deep into the scars of lineage, masculine silence, and the struggle for religious freedom.
“I wholeheartedly imagine in Generational Curses and contracts made with the Spirit World,” LaPlante reveals. “I took it on myself to interrupt my household tree freed from these shackles which have brought about a lot ache in my blood line.
Adorably candy and dreamy, ROSIN shares the accompanying video for her
newest single ‘only a boy’
After discovering love unexpectedly and much away from dwelling, ROSIN pays homage to her lengthy distance love in in the present day’s new video.
Light and intimate, ROSIN’s vocals cleared the path, depicting how she returned from her journey with a full coronary heart. Sharing extra ROSIN defined: ‘I fell in love with somebody whereas I used to be travelling and shortly after I discovered myself in a long-distance relationship.
It had been so lengthy since I skilled being in love so strongly and it made me romanticise the whole lot! (which I believe is important to deal with the space). I simply discovered it so fascinating that we’re in several nations, having completely different lives, talking completely different languages however that we nonetheless share this bond with one another, that makes us need to be collectively, even when we’re aside.’
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