2026

There’s a certain kind of rock song that really wants you to know it’s Serious. Big emotions, big shadows, meaningful pauses where you’re clearly supposed to reflect. “Through the Darkness” mostly understands that temptation and then, to its credit, doesn’t drown in it. Paul Gehl aims for atmosphere first, melodrama second, which already puts the […]

J Terrell’s “Over the Moon” feels like that moment in a long road trip where you pull over, turn the engine off, and just sit there for a second, realizing you’re way farther from home than you thought, but in a good way. Coming off the genre-sprawling Cowboy Tango and the punchy momentum of tracks

“Honey” feels like the kind of song you write when you’re cold in every sense of the word and dreaming about warmth. Written during a winter in Seattle, it sounds like someone staring out at endless gray skies while imagining sunlight on skin, heat in the air, and the kind of affection that sticks to

“Change It!” shows up on Boxing Day, which feels kind of perfect, because it’s a song that sounds like it was written by someone who just spent an entire year watching the world fall apart and finally went, “Okay, yeah, no, I’m done being patient.” It’s the latest single from Tom Minor, and it’s doing