Category: Music

The Singles Bar: Alex Rogers – The Chase

Alex Rogers possesses a voice as smooth as Southern whiskey. Look no further than his new song “The Chase,” a gospel-soaked lamentation about an on-again, off-again relationship. “Baby, you don’t love me / You love the chase,” he crows. His voice drenches you in the pain of a lost love, arresting you into a place…
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August 21, 2026
Record Revue: Bunny X – Love on a High Floor

Movies, TV, and music are all about nostalgia these days. And it’s easy to see why. In 2026, it’s very difficult to be human. We turn to the comfort art of our youth to cope with the present and find our happy place. With their third album, Love on a High Floor, indie duo Bunny…
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August 18, 2026
Video Killed the Radio Star: Imperial Teen – Overdrive

Imperial Teen knows exactly how to craft addictive melodies. Look no further than their new song “Overdrive,” vibrating with shoegaze synths and blaring bass. “Let’s start the show / Let’s take it slow,” they sing through a wall-to-wall of sonic goodness. In the accompanying video, the band wanders through eerie halls of a seemingly abandoned…
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August 17, 2026
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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August 7, 2026
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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August 7, 2026
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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August 7, 2026
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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August 7, 2026
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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August 5, 2026
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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August 5, 2026
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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August 1, 2026
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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August 1, 2026
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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August 1, 2026
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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July 31, 2026
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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July 29, 2026
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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July 27, 2026