Track Review

There’s something incredibly funny about how rock music in 2025 manages to exist in two parallel universes. In one, you’ve got aging stadium acts still charging the price of a used car for a ticket, playing the same setlist they’ve been running since 1983. In the other, you’ve got a wave of bands trying to […]

Some bands make music you can throw on while you do the dishes. Leather Laces do not. You can’t fold laundry to Marching in the Fog without feeling like the socks are staging an uprising. Their third single is not background noise. It’s foreground warfare. Marching in the Fog doesn’t politely request space; it takes

There’s a strange kind of nostalgia baked into The Girl Next Door. On the surface, it’s a shiny debut pop-rock single from Chloe Sofia, but a quick listen and it becomes clear that what you get is pure early-2000s teen-slacker-rock; the kind you’d hear sandwiched between Michelle Branch and Avril Lavigne on a high school

Have you ever looked at someone and thought “this person is way too hot to be real,” respectfully? If not, maybe you’re lying? But if yes, then you already know how Way Too Hot by zukrassverliebt feels like. zukrassverliebt is a pop-rock duo based from Germany founded in 2023. This time, they’re back to deliver

Don’t you just love it when music makes you feel all giggly and carefree? Like this world is already messy as it is so why not just love, and feel, and dance your heart out? Ball in the House knows exactly how to elevate that feeling into their latest single Take A Chance. Ball in

There’s a certain kind of bravery in deciding, “You know what, we’re not going to hide behind walls of distortion, flashy production tricks, or layers of sonic bombast today. Today, we’re just going to sit down at the piano, strip it all back, and make you feel something.” Love Ghost’s “Car Crash” is exactly that

Elvis Costello has always been proof that pop music doesn’t have to be about holding hands on beaches or staring wistfully out of rain-streaked windows. Sometimes, it can also be about calling out militarism, or gleefully spitting bile at Margaret Thatcher in three and a half minutes flat. His best political work wore its anger

Just from the gritty introduction and the classic rock riff, listeners already know that they’re in for a treat. “Ride Or Die Kinda Girl” is both a rock anthem and a naturally uplifting song, with its main themes of loyalty and bouncing back. You honestly can’t go wrong with an aggressive yet meaningful song like

Sometimes, music doesn’t have to be bright or fun or even comfortable to stick. At times, it should sound like straight from an old, decaying basement—molds creeping across the ceiling and the walls. And yes, that’s the exact space The7thGatekeeper drags you into with his latest single, Not to Be Taken. The track welcomes you

Pop music in 2025 is split clean down the middle. On one side, you’ve got the overcaffeinated algorithm-bait songs where the chorus kicks in before you’ve even realized there was a verse, desperately waving its arms for your attention like it’s about to drown. On the other side, you’ve got the slow-burners: tracks that sound