Philadelphia-based indie rock quartet Mo Lowda & the Humble hand over on a cat-and-mouse love affair on darkish, stormy tune, “Northside Violet” out now. With thunderous drums, fuzzy, distorted guitars and a fiery angle, the band triumphantly shut the e book on an on-again-off once more flame.
The band’s spirited, texturally wealthy fifth studio album Tailing The Ghost is due out June 20 and out there for pre-save now. Recorded solely on the highway throughout America’s most scenic settings, the spellbinding LP guarantees to be the band’s most commanding, cohesive physique of labor but.
Plus, the group will embark on a prolonged North American tour this summer season and fall, with help from French Cassettes and Illiterate Gentle and a slew of competition appearances, recent off an exhilarating Boston Calling look. See a full checklist of dates beneath, together with three bought out Philadelphia-based vinyl listening events, and seize tickets now through molowda.com/motour.
Jordan Caiola (lead vocals, guitar, bass) says “That is the only with essentially the most angle. It’s a few cat and mouse love affair, with the narrator having seemingly lastly given up on continuously attempting to ignite or reignite that spark.” Sonically, Jeff Lucci (bass, guitar, baritone guitar, keyboards, vocals) provides, “To me, it jogs my memory of some darkish New York alleys, however but, the alley itself is definitely a desert. City desert. This observe is fascinating for me as a result of I didn’t use a bass guitar to get the imply subby tones.”
Cinema Music Group (CMG) is a Los Angeles-based manufacturing home based by longtime buddies and collaborators Dave Resnik and Niko Bolas. With many years of expertise between them, they’ve labored with a number of the greatest names in music—from Neil Younger to Mavis Staples to Don Henley—and share a deep perception in capturing music the old-school means: reside within the room, minimal takes, and most feeling.
Dave Resnik has composed music for main networks like ABC and CBS and carried out with artists together with Ricky Martin, Donna Summer season, and Sonia Dada. He additionally frolicked in A&R, signing bands like Kyuss and dealing with Lucinda Williams. Niko Bolas is a legendary producer and engineer whose credit embody James Taylor, Sting, Billy Joel, KISS, and a long-running collaboration with Neil Younger.
In 2021, after reconnecting at a pal’s wake, Dave and Niko launched CMG with the aim of reimagining traditional songs and producing new music with each established and rising artists. They shortly grew to become referred to as “the duvet guys,” figuring out of their LA studio The Surf Shack and partnering with abilities like Chris Pierce and Charlie Greene.
Their newest challenge is their most formidable but: Coronary heart Of Gold Quantity 1, a compilation of Neil Younger covers carried out by artists together with Fiona Apple, Brandi Carlile, The Doobie Brothers, Eddie Vedder, Mumford & Sons, and plenty of extra. What started as a one-off session with Chris Pierce become a full-scale profit challenge with Neil’s blessing, supporting The Bridge College—a pioneering nonprofit that helps kids with extreme speech and bodily impairments by way of assistive expertise.
Los Angeles alt-rock band Starling are excited to share their newest single “No Frown,” the final preview of their new EP, Forgive Me, out June 27, 2025 through San Antonio’s Sunday Drive Data. Carried out as a duet, “No Frown” paperwork the invincibility and sweetness {that a} small city love can deliver. Acoustic guitar and string preparations evoke fond reminiscences, craving for the previous as Kasha and Gitai’s vocals reminisce on moments of need. A placing, ever-relevant tune, Starling’s entry into the slowness marks one in all their most reflective and memorable releases but.
“‘No Frown’ is essentially the most acoustic tune on the file. It’s about rising up in a metropolis and falling in love with somebody from a small city, and falling in love with the small city itself,” Starling say. “It’s a candy tune, it feels full; All of Starling’s standard craving glad. The lyrics have been written by Kasha and carried out each by her and lead guitarist Gitai. Erik orchestrated the strings.”
THEKOIWAY is a boundary-pushing Latin Various challenge led by Chilean multi-instrumentalist and producer Victor Vildósola, mixing Andean devices, funk grooves, hip-hop rhythms, and Latin people right into a genre-fluid sound finest described as world, gritty, and deeply human. Now primarily based in Brooklyn, Vildósola brings collectively many years of musical affect, from the streets of Santiago and Mexico Metropolis to the underground pulse of New York, to create music that strikes each physique and thoughts.
Their new single “La Calle Quema” is a decade-spanning collaboration with Chilean artist Jamez Manuel (Zonora Level), born in a Mexico Metropolis studio in 2012 and reimagined in Brooklyn in 2024. With reside drums, fiery verses, and manufacturing touches from mixer Rocky Gallo (Norah Jones, CeeLo Inexperienced) and mastering engineer Tom Waltz (Fleetwood Mac, Alicia Keys), the observe fuses funk, hip-hop, and Latin soul into a robust road anthem.
“La Calle Quema was born from lived expertise—shifting between Santiago and New York, seeing how the road shapes folks, the way it breaks some and builds others,” says Vildósola.
Hailing from Lengthy Seaside, CA, Brandon Wayne is carving out his place within the music scene with a daring fusion of nation and rock. Drawing inspiration from blues, traditional nation, metallic, and onerous rock, his newest single, “No Good,” showcases his dynamic sound and genre-blending expertise. Identified for his high-energy reside performances, Brandon captivates audiences with an electrifying presence that retains followers coming again for extra. Unafraid to problem conventions, he persistently pushes the boundaries of each his music and his listeners. Only one factor’s sure—in the event you supply him a very good time, he’s all in.
Rising artist, Daniel Arison, groups up with chart-topping pop provocateur, Leah Kate, for a high-energy remix of his fan-favorite single “Egocentric,” out now. Initially launched as a soulful, mid-tempo confession of vulnerability and heartbreak, “Egocentric” will get a daring new twist with Leah Kate’s signature edge and unapologetic aptitude. The remix heightens the emotional rigidity of the unique, turning the observe right into a fiery duet that brings each artists’ views into sharp focus.
“I all the time imagined ‘Egocentric’ as a dialog,” says Daniel. “Leah introduced that
vitality and gave it an entire new life—it’s a sonic tug-of-war.” “After I first heard ‘Egocentric,’ I instantly related to the emotion behind it,” provides Leah Kate. “Leaping on the remix felt pure—it’s uncooked, it’s sincere, and it gave me area to deliver my very own story to the observe.”
As a Los Angeles-based Afro-Dominican multidisciplinary artist whose work spans movie, tv, theater, music, and poetry, Michelle Núñez’s music blends uncooked vulnerability with cinematic imagery. Raised in a army household and formed by a nomadic upbringing throughout New York, Germany, Washington, Texas, and Florida, Núñez finds stability in creativity, the place her songwriting displays the internal world of somebody who’s continuously evolving, unafraid of emotional depth, non secular questioning, or the quiet braveness it takes to maintain going. Her mature singing and songwriting talents will be attributed to her time learning voice on the Patel Conservatory on the Straz Middle for the Performing Arts, permitting her to change into a storyteller at coronary heart. As a multi-faceted expertise within the leisure business, Núñez is understood for her breakout function as Zane on Tyler Perry’s critically acclaimed sequence Ruthless. Her performing profession consists of stage work within the regional premiere of the Broadway play Seminar and TV appearances on ABC’s The Rookie: Feds reverse Niecy Nash, and Ryan Murphy’s Physician Odyssey alongside Phillipa Soo. She can also be a veteran of the Tampa Bay Theatre Competition, the Tampa Worldwide Fringe Competition, and has starred in a number of movies, together with God’s Ready Room (Tribeca) and Nerve for Monster Vitality TV, starring Olympic silver medalist Colby Stevenson. Devoted to her craft, Núñez approaches songwriting the identical means she approaches performing: with heartfelt integrity and a need to uplift, provoke, and heal. Núñez is a rising drive within the music scene along with her well-rounded heartfelt lyricism and dynamic vocal prowess to point out audiences her genuine self whereas additionally getting them to assume.
Considered one of NYC’s most significant, new rock voices, The Factor right this moment releases the following two singles off of their upcoming album with “Alive (The Sword)” and “Holy Water.” Arriving in full on August 6, the band has been releasing their self-titled third album in thematic packages of A/B-sides over the previous few months. As reverent of town’s gritty previous as they’re hungry to reinvent it, The Factor was recorded solely analog, self-produced, and tracked reside to tape with out using a pc. The result’s The Factor at their most rapid and unfiltered — Stream right this moment’s new releases.
Now formally crossing into the again half of the album, The Factor takes a second to point out how masterfully they will tiptoe between restraint and launch. “Alive (the Sword)” rocks in like a viking ship on the excessive seas, constructing superbly all through the journey. Guitarist/vocalist Jack Bradley mentioned it’s time to mirror on, “having persistence and turning into the individual that you need to be — and having religion. There’s no want to leap the gun, which is one thing that I wrestle with.”
Within the 6-minute epic that’s “Holy Water,” there’s a palpable transition from one thing as soon as within the realm of The Beatles, to the repertoire of Radiohead. Taking time to point out off the Jazz coaching of drummer Lucas Ebeling, Bradley shared that “It got here out actually organically, all of us simply taking part in and having the primary half utterly die out after which relax in with the identical chords and identical tune, however simply with the totally different inflection.”
Stepping ahead and standing out along with her placing debut, Chase delivers the emotive and introspective ‘Fake Once more’. Produced by Philip Weinrobe (Adrianne Lenker, Florist, Tomberlin) in his studio in NYC, right this moment’s launch acts as a flawless introduction to Chase’s artistry.
’I didn’t intend for one thing so intimate to change into a tune. However songs have a humorous means of discovering you and providing you with language for the belongings you didn’t know you wanted to call.”
Wealthy, timeless vocals seize Chase’s journey of self-discovery, woven by way of poetic lyricism as she involves phrases with some large revelations. Sharing extra, Chase defined: “It’s fascinating how complete revelations can start with a single query. For me, it was slightly bit like discovering a stray thread hanging off the sting of a sweater. As soon as I began pulling, the solutions got here to me within the type of complete unravelings.
Waring Data and Alfreda! are thrilled to announce Alfreda!’s debut solo album Destiny Will Have It, due out later this yr—the primary album to be launched from Jordan and Sinead Waring’s Waring Data. A label rooted in legacy and constructed on genre-crossing music. “Died to Myself,” the primary single off the brand new album, is out right this moment on all DSPs. “After I first learn the lyrics to ‘Died to Myself,’ I felt like I used to be staring right into a mirror,” says Alfreda! “It spoke to elements of my journey I don’t all the time speak about—studying to launch pleasure, confront ache, and open myself to one thing better. I didn’t need to simply sing it—I needed to really feel it, phrase for phrase. This tune demanded every part from me, and I gave it every part I had.”
“‘Died to Myself’ is about give up—non secular, emotional, and private. I wrote it as a mirrored image on what it takes to let go of ego and really start once more. It’s a narrative about hitting backside, waking up, and selecting humility over phantasm. When Alfreda delivered the vocal, she didn’t simply sing it—she gave it soul. That’s once I knew the tune had change into one thing greater than me.”
– Jordan Waring, songwriter
- E-mail: neill@outloudculture.com
