Oaken Lee – Home (is a folk-rock mixtape)
Coming straight outta Tottenham after grinding for a decade and taking a few years off, Oaken Lee (that’s Jake, for the record – a Shropshire lad turned North London fixture) has dropped something genuinely special. “Home (is a folk-rock mixtape)” is his whole mission, his vibe, and one hell of a song collection that rocks with heart, […]
Sound Waves #22
• Weekly Song Recommendations • “Because Sometimes I Forget” by Dirty Dancing drifts like a hazy memory, as if soundtracking a dream you half-remember. Its raw intimacy and subdued urgency linger long after the final note fades, quietly demanding a second listen. Socials: Instagram . Facebook “Everything is Temporary” by The Valery Trails captures a […]
Brood22 – just past the exit with the truck stop
Hitting play on Brood22‘s new EP, “just past the exit with the truck stop”, is like flicking on your high beams on a pitch-black desert highway. It cuts through the void between Tucson’s heat haze and Portland’s perpetual drizzle. This ain’t music you hear; it’s a landscape you inhabit. A desolate, beautiful, fucked-up stretch of sonic highway where […]
Blunt Blade – Forgiveness
Blunt Blade’s second album, “Forgiveness,” is one album that’d make you forget neat genre boxes – this album spits on them. Who is Blunt Blade? Blunt Blade is the band. The guy’s been musically obsessed since he was a kid – piano by 7, guitar by 15, bass and drums by 16 – and every single layer […]
Sound Waves #21
• Weekly Song Recommendations • “All For Numb” surges with raw emotion and snarling edge, blending jagged riffs with a defiant, almost sneering vocal energy that never lets up. Jeremy Serwer delivers a punch of grit and attitude, crafting a sound that feels both lived-in and recklessly alive. Socials: Instagram “Χε Χε (Te-hee)” zips through […]
Super Tuesday – Through The Static
Move over, algorithms and drum machines. Clear the decks for something real. Alex Kisch, operating under the banner Super Tuesday, has just dropped his fourth full-length, Through the Static, and it’s a breath of fresh, guitar-scented air. Landing on June 20th, this album feels timeless, a potent reminder of why we need seasoned songwriters with dirt under […]
Art Schop – The Fifth Hammer
Art Schop just dropped “The Fifth Hammer,” and it’s a jackhammer wrapped in a rock ‘n’ roll skin. Martin G. Walker’s fifth studio opus is a 44-minute thesis on cosmic dissonance, delivered with the swag of a pub philosopher and the sonic heft of a band tearing down walls. And yeah, he’s the band. Mostly. Walker ain’t your average basement […]
Dream Bodies – Circle of Light
Steven Fleet is not playing dress-up in the graveyard of post-punk past – with Dream Bodies, he’s exhuming the corpse of darkwave and breathing lightning into its lungs. His debut EP, ‘Circle of Light’, is a five-track séance, a meticulously crafted descent into a sonic underworld where distortion bleeds into dreamscapes and every synth swell feels like a shiver up a […]
Sound Waves #20
• Weekly Song Recommendations • “DYBIRL” shimmers with raw vulnerability wrapped in sunlit harmonies and a soft pop-folk pulse that lingers long after the last chord. SOPE weaves a sound that feels both intimate and expansive, like a handwritten letter carried on the wind. Socials: Spotify “Stuck!” pulses with chaotic charm, fusing jagged beats and […]
Sound Wave #19
• Weekly Song Recommendations • Bathed in dreamy synths and Delia Meshlir’s haunting vocals, “Sun” feels like a half-remembered kiss from a summer long gone. It’s a slow-burning pulse of post-punk longing—both warm and wistfully out of reach. Socials: Instagram “Lost Control” erupts with raw, restless energy, channeling chaos into a blistering rush. It’s the […]
Tom Minor – The Manic Phase
Tom Minor – London’s answer to a whiskey-soaked, existential panic attack set to music – just lobbed a four-track Molotov cocktail into the void. “The Manic Phase” is a snarling, soul-drenched odyssey through neon-lit back alleys and crumbling psyches. Produced by Teaboy Palmer (rightly crowned “the Phil Spector of Finchley Road, NW3”), this is chaos with a heartbeat: power-pop hooks mugged by […]
Blueprint Tokyo – Neon Circuits and the Mission of Hope
Oklahoma City’s Blueprint Tokyo is launching a goddamn noise doctrine with “Neon Circuits and the Mission of Hope,” their hotly anticipated 16-track debut full-length album – yeah, a double-album guts move in this ADHD age – out now via Spectra Music. From that first surge of rhythm, you get it: this is a band that’s done simmering. They’ve locked […]