Author: Helena Lynch
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‘Monsters’: When Love Turns to Control – Frida and The Mann Lay It All Bare
The Cleveland band Frida and The Mann, which emerged in 2024, confidently moves between alternative rock and indie pop, creating a sound that defies genre boundaries. Their new single “Monsters” hits right in the heart. Every change in tempo and mood can be felt physically – as if the song passes through you. “Monsters” is an honest track…
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Norwegian Dream Pop Under the Northern Lights: Bellman Releases ‘She’s Reading Poe’
Bellman, also known as Arne-Johan Rauan, lives in a cozy cabin among the Norwegian fjords – on an islet of silence, where his music is born under the northern lights. He composes Nordic dream pop – sensitive, multilayered, and enchanting, it seems as if it is made of light and mist. His music contains dozens…
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Old principles, new breath – Moviola present “Stunt Your Growth”
It all began in 1993, when Jake Housh formed the band Moviola in a duplex near Ohio State University. Three decades later, the band is once again making people talk about them – this time with a new track “Stunt Your Growth” and a fresh video directed by Sharon Anderson. The video is already available on YouTube – and this is news you…
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Stories Sung from the Heart: “Nothing Lasts Forever”, the New Album by Brock Davis
In America, there are small towns where the radio catches only two stations – country and sermons. By evening, the sky there becomes boundless, and the road to the next settlement stretches through silence, leaving time and asphalt nearby. Admit it, in such moments music is especially needed – warm, close, one’s own. And it…
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Dissonance as the Language of Emotion: Bernice Marsala’s Single “Music Box” on the Fragility of Memory
Memory works strangely. It doesn’t record events sequentially, like a video camera. It leaves fragments: a smell, a sound, a random detail – and assembles something new from them. Nashville singer Bernice Marsala knows this. Her new single “Music Box” is built on how nostalgia deceives – because it is sometimes beautiful, insistent, and convincing.…
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A New Impulse from Pentire: “Boy In The Machine”
New year – new impulse. The Bristol indie band Pentire starts 2026 with a bright and tense single, “Boy In The Machine.” In it – the shine of modern rock, a sense of inner restlessness, and the desire to break out of a closed circle where everything feels the same. The voice of frontman Jack…
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Lucy Frost Prescribes a Musical Remedy – her New Single “Prescription” is Here
Los Angeles-based dark-pop singer and songwriter Lucy Frost has unveiled her new single “Prescription” – a track where love sounds like both a cure and a relapse. It’s a kind of emotional detox therapy, written as a way to release “accumulated, smoldering anxiety.” In the song, Frost explores addictive, painfully magnetic relationships that are impossible…
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“Beauty Follows Emotion, Not the Other Way Around”: Iuliano on Creating Without Compromise
Naples-born Iuliano returns with a new album. After years of producing music for others, a relationship ending, and pandemic silence, he decided to return to himself. The result is “The Place,” a project about what happens when you stop running and finally stand still. A Berklee graduate, Independent Music Award winner, and creator of the…
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Postfeminist Glam: New Album “Apocalypse” by Lacey Lune
New Yorkers joke that: “If you want to see the real city – come in the first week of January”. After the stormy meeting of the New Year, the noisy megapolis suddenly takes a pause. The streets of Manhattan seem like decorations for a film about an abandoned planet. The wind chases skeletons of thrown-out…
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MDWS With New Song “12 Days”: Picking Through the Wreckage of a Long-Term Breakup
Callum Meadows combines a sensual voice and rich sonic textures, creating music under the pseudonym MDWS (pronounced “Meadows”), where the electronic atmosphere takes on a personal character. A producer, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from New Zealand, he opens the year with a new track, “12 Days” – a frank, documentary snapshot of the emotional state that follows a…