2026

Once in a while, you’ll come across songs that sound insanely good, then you hear the lyrics and go, “Wait… there’s actually a lot going on here.” Today, that song is PRJCT MGR’s Capitalize (feat. Nora June). And it starts like a weird classroom exercise, with layers tiptoeing around one another. You can practically hear

There are songs that arrive fully assembled, wearing a little name tag that says, “Hello, I am a single.” Then there are songs like The House Flies’ “Lost Literature,” which apparently started as a bassline and simply refused to stop growing until it became an entire song. Honestly, fair enough. The four-piece band from Moline,

There is something slightly absurd about writing a love song for your wedding and then, 15 years later, deciding it needs electric guitars. This is also exactly why Chet Nordy’s “For You” works: the song’s grander rock treatment is built around something that was originally much smaller, more private, and presumably played with considerably fewer

PALAZZO finds FORRM working where experimental rock and electronic music collide with cinematic composition, using atmosphere as the fabric of a song rather than an afterthought. The single offers a taste of FORRM – the free-wielding multidisciplinary project helmed by Iranian-French artist/filmmaker/musician Firouz Farman Farmaian in an expansive track grounded in the physical. Written at Bloom

“The Man Who Killed The World” is an extremely confident title. It suggests one spectacularly bad person, possibly wearing a cape and standing on top of a volcano. Electrobuddha’s song, thankfully, is a little more complicated than that. The track, which first surfaced in 2016 and was given a remixed 2026 version, punishes war, hunger,