Spellling’s Portrait of My Heart Is a Surreal, Soul-Baring Leap into Rock Elegance
Spellling doesn’t follow trends—she conjures worlds. On her fourth studio album, Portrait of My Heart, the Oakland-based shapeshifte...
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Scowl – Are We All Angels (Album Review)
Scowl doesn’t just flirt with evolution on Are We All Angels—they dive in headfirst. The Santa Cruz hardcore unit, once known for fa...
Album Review: Barker – Stochastic Drift
With Stochastic Drift, Barker doesn’t just return—he evolves. Released in April 2025 via Smalltown Supersound, this sophomore album...
Momma’s Welcome to My Blue Sky Is a Coming-of-Age Dream Drenched in Grunge Pop Glory
Brooklyn duo Momma have always had a knack for fusing vulnerability with distortion, but on their latest album Welcome to My Blue Sk...
Album Review: Sudan Archives – The BPM
A fearless leap onto the dancefloor — full of invention, impulse, and identity in motion In a music landscape where artistic reinven...
Album Review: Geese – Getting Killed
“Desperation looks good on them.” That could easily be a pull quote, a tagline, or even a thesis statement for Geese’s d...
Album Review: Casey Dienel — My Heart Is an Outlaw
A lush, late-night dispatch from an artist who stepped away, looked inward, and returned unafraid “I quit the idea of me.”— Casey Di...
Shakespeare Rewired: Solemn Pledge’s Rock Opera Redefines Romeo and Juliet
Solemn Pledge, the rock duo of Maria Genevieve Elia and Michael Justin Lee, has reimagined Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy as a full-...
Album Review: Madison Cunningham – Ace
An exquisite, emotionally layered pivot from guitar prodigy to chamber-pop auteur If Madison Cunningham wanted to prove that mastery...
feeo – Goodness: An Album Review by Exposed Vocals
At just 22, feeo introduced herself as an old soul with the weight of the world in her voice. Now, four years and several haunting r...