New Music

Some musicians collect records. Hamish seems to collect stories. Three decades spent wandering England’s music scene, setting up the Rabbit Hole at Glastonbury, quietly supporting young bands, hitchhiking across America with a guitar, and somehow ending up at Lisa Bonet’s party after getting lost in Venice Beach have all become part of his story. He

“Getaway Car” by Ivan Mudd comes out of the gate racing. Ivan Mudd’s first single delivers with fuzzy guitars, crunch, punk attitude, and a catchy melodic hook that makes the track immediately inviting. While it is a straightforward power pop tune, the band knows exactly how much grit and melody it needs to keep the

What if the person you disagree with is just as worried about the rent, the mortgage, the kids and the future as you are? Trey Bruce’s “All Americans” takes that deceptively simple question and turns it into a weary, roots-driven meditation on a country increasingly divided by fear, mistrust and resentment. Originally written 14 years

Nothing seems more striking than a song from a woman who knows the weight of what she writes about. VelumVelvet’s Woman’s Burden carries that sense of familiarity, like a shared language for feelings that are difficult to name. Maybe it’s because Donna James, the woman behind VelumVelvet, knows these feelings from somewhere. Based in Brigg,

There is a specific point in flirting where reading signals stops being fun and starts becoming an unpaid detective job. You noticed the looks. You felt the tension. There is clearly something happening. But eventually, someone has to actually say it. GlowDriver‘s “Tell Me” builds upon the concept of words of affirmation and transforms it