Category: Music
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The Singles Bar: NURKO & Kiesza – Back Home
Producer NURKO knows exactly how to deliver potent, fang-toothed lyrics nestled inside dance-club electricity. With a new song called “Back Home,” featuring pop vocalist Kiesza, NURKO offers a light in the darkness, a lighthouse on the shore, and an explosive flair in the dead of night. “I’ll be everywhere you go till you find your…
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The Singles Bar: Albatross – Little More Than Strangers
“Don’t you think it’s sad when you consider what we had?” asks Albatross through a gentle haze. His new song “Little More Than Strangers” aches with throbbing wistfulness that you can only truly feel if you’ve gone through real, raw, and visceral heartache. Horns echo in the arrangement, furthering the emotional weight of the song.…
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The Singles Bar: Zak Smith – Fix Me
There’s a brokenness in the world that’s best summed up with Zak Smith‘s new song “Fix Me.” Smith coats you in a dark strawberry rasp that yanks your heartstrings. “Turn your face to the wall,” he sings. “You won’t fix me, baby.” He takes the emotional temperature of not only his own self-destructive behavior but…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Love, BB – Those City Lights
Love, BB transports you to the dark, smoke-filled lounges of 1940s New York City. The listener steps back decades with their new song, “Those City Lights,” spinning like classic jazz records by Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington. Saxophone lazily wanders around the Ella Fitzgerald melody, taking your hand and guiding you further into the backrooms…
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Record Revue: Tara Craig – I’ve Been Looking for You EP
The cover art for Tara Craig‘s forthcoming EP, I’ve Been Looking for You, shows a crackling, roaring campfire in the desert. A group of people can be seen as faint, ghost-like figures in the background. It’s right after dusk. The sun has grown cold in the sky and vanished over the horizon. All that’s left…
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The Singles Bar: Tara Macri – Grace
We all have people who’ve completely changed the course of our lives. That becomes the root of Tara Macri‘s new song, “Grace,” a bubbly summertime anthem about those connections, no matter how fleeting. Sometimes, those people rush into our lives unexpectedly and rush out of our lives unexpectedly. Either way, we’re forever changed. “I always…
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The Singles Bar: Alexa Kate – good for long
Having anxiety is the suffocating eeriness that descends upon you as you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop. Everything could be in your favor, and you’d still wait quietly for it all to collapse. With her new song “good for long,” Alexa Kate bottles up that trembling, frantic energy with a silky smoothness. The…
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Video Killed the Radio Stars: Loose Buttons – Sure Thing
There’s nothing like a song to get you in the mood for a late-night drive with music blasting and the cool night air kissing your cheeks. With their new song, “Sure Thing,” rock band Loose Buttons suck in a wistfulness for last summer and exhale the beautiful mix of amber lights, white lines rushing away…
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The Singles Bar: Jens Rude – Magic of the Moment
Music has a way of connecting people that other art forms do not. With their new song, “Magic of the Moment,” indie band Jens Rude invites the listener to reminisce about the, well, magical moments with music that found them reliving the glorious moments of home. Home can mean many things to many different people.…
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The Singles Bar: Jonathan Something – Country Rose
B-Sides & Badlands favorite Jonathan Something ventures down the dusty trail to Western folk music with his new song, “Country Rose.” Cosmic finger-plucking and the soft tear of country & western spin together into a puff of purple smoke. “We could take the dirt road back to heaven,” he sings. “We could take the highway…
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Record Revue: Brent Funkhouser – Homegrown
A whole world can change in five years. Since his 2021 studio record, Americana singer-songwriter Brent Funkhouser witnessed his world shapeshift and expand in surprising ways. His art sprouted wings and took off on its own, too. It was an unexpected twist, but Funkhouser embraced it. With his brand-new record, Homegrown, the musician gathers songs…
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Record Revue: Bird – Held Here Together
Bird haunts like a ghost trapped in purgatory. That’s most evident right from the start in “The Film,” a stormy, reflective ode that could soundtrack a disastrously somber story about death and the outward rattle of the afterlife. “It’s like that when you hurt someone,” she whispers through windswept lace curtains. Both a fragility and…
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The Singles Bar: Babbling April – All the Shine is Gone
Babbling April have had about enough. All they can do is scream until the veins pop out of their necks and their lungs deflate. That’s the experience of listening to their fuzzy new song “All the Shine is Gone,” with guitars thrashing and clattering against their ribs. Its groove is woolly like a fleece blanket…
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Video Killed the Radio Star: Taylor Bickett – If Only
We’ve all had situationships—those yes-no-maybe-so relationships when the other half can’t seem to make up their mind. With her new song, “If Only,” singer-songwriter Taylor Bickett calls out the cowardice that’s led to emotional ruin. “Don’t keep me on your leash just to cut me loose,” she sings. In the accompanying visual, Bickett wanders through…
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The Singles Bar: Luna Keller – Children of the Sun
Luna Keller worked through a bad mental health season by writing her new song, “Children of the Sun.” Its glistening strings soothe the soul as she works through troubled times, eventually coming out renewed on the other side. “It’s alright, alright,” she sings. She lets the sun fall fresh upon her face. “We will shine,”…
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