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Candi Carpenter has spent a lot of time becoming different versions of themself. Gospel prodigy. Country artist. Grand Ole Opry performer. Songwriter. Producer. Now, as a queer, autistic multidisciplinary artist, Carpenter is stepping into another chapter with Reincarnation, a six-track alt-rock EP that turns questions of identity, sexuality, religion, mortality and healing into something loud, strange and deeply personal. Due in September, Reincarnation is more than a collection of songs. It is a musical and visual world built around Carpenter’s attempt to understand what remains when you start pulling apart the beliefs and expectations you were raised with. Carpenter grew…

There is something powerful about songwriting that does not try too hard to impress. Sometimes the most interesting songs come from simply paying attention to the world, noticing the people around you, sitting with an idea and allowing it to become something more. Montreal based indie rock singer songwriter Scott Cook takes that approach on his new album, Guy Fawkes Day, 1947. Across seven songs, Cook brings together indie rock, indie folk and singer songwriter traditions with a subtle jazz influence that gives the music an extra sense of movement. His musical palette is broad, with the influence of artists…

Toronto indie quintet Next Week’s Washing share “Where Did I Go Wrong,” an exhilarating new single that pairs soaring shoegaze textures with driving alternative rock. Serving as the latest preview of the band’s forthcoming second EP, the track captures the uncertainty of growing up in a rapidly changing world, exploring the self-doubt, anxiety, and search for identity that define a generation growing up in unprecedented times. “It’s about trying to find yourself and becoming the person you want to be at a strange time in the world,” explains singer Miles Duffy. “There’s a level of anxiety and self-doubt that comes…

Toronto-based, Hong Kong-born songwriter Tennyson King shares “Safe Travels,” the latest single from his forthcoming album 100 Cities 百城 (out November 6th), a warm and uplifting indie folk anthem inspired by years of solo travel, touring, and the meaningful connections formed along the way. Blending contemporary folk songwriting with traditional Chinese instrumentation, the track reflects on the beauty of impermanent relationships, the joy of embracing the unknown, and the quiet hope that every goodbye might one day become another hello. Inspired by backpacking across Eastern Europe and Africa, motorcycle journeys through Vietnam, and scuba diving in Indonesia, “Safe Travels” draws…

Virtual artist Mke released a full-length album, Early Hours, on 30th December 2025. Rooted in Soulstep, a sound that moves between amapiano, Afro-house, deep house, R&B and soul, the record is a late-night meditation on the emotions that surface once the world falls silent. Early Hours explores the quiet hours before sunrise, when heartbreak, loneliness and hope tend to rise closest to the surface. Rather than chasing spectacle, the album leans into restraint, letting rhythm sit beneath the story instead of over it. Each track unfolds like a journal entry, built for listeners who sit with their thoughts a little longer than most. Across…

Blues has always been about emotion. It can carry pain, desire, frustration, confidence and hope without needing to explain too much. Dutch composer, guitarist and producer Guy Renardeau, known as The Blues Guy, taps into that emotional language while giving it a contemporary shape on his new album, The Blues Guy & The SHADES OF BLUE: Colours in Your Mind. The seven song, 26 minute project brings together vocalists and musicians from different backgrounds, creating a record that moves comfortably between blues, rock, soul, R&B, jazz, ambient music and cinematic sound. Rather than treating blues as something locked in the…

Some records are built around a single idea. Others feel like a collection of moments that slowly reveal something bigger about the people who made them. For Dutch alternative indie rock band After Eight, The Reach belongs firmly in the second category. Their debut EP is a five song exploration of love, longing, fear, escape and vulnerability, capturing the uncomfortable spaces that exist between wanting something deeply and being afraid of what it might cost. After Eight began in early 2023 in an unusually simple way. As guitarist Jelle van der Sar prepared to leave his childhood home, he and…

Rock ‘n’ roll never really went away. It simply keeps finding new voices willing to carry it forward. For Atticus Roness, that means taking the melodies, energy and fearless spirit of classic rock and giving them a fresh place in the present. His new album, Rock ‘N’ Roll Hit Parade, is the result of that vision, bringing together 13 songs that move freely between psychedelic pop, British rock, power pop, arena-sized anthems and deeply personal songwriting. The album has been taking shape since 2021, with recording beginning in early 2026. Rather than feeling like a collection of unrelated songs, Rock…

Calcutta-born, Madrid-based artist weyvir is getting ready to release “Streets of Love, Pt. 1” on September 9, a song that has been nearly a decade in the making. Blending indie rock, alternative pop, power pop and surf rock, the track captures the strange feeling of holding onto someone long after you know you probably should let them go. The story began when weyvir was still in high school. Written almost eight years ago, the song started with its chorus, born from heartbreak and feelings that were difficult to say out loud. Rather than leaving the idea behind, he kept returning…

There are moments when being misunderstood becomes its own kind of freedom. For Nashville born alt pop and neo soul artist Talon David, that idea sits at the heart of Villain, the first half of a fairy tale inspired double album arriving September 6. Written, produced, arranged, engineered and performed by David, Villain grew from a very real experience of being blamed for standing up for herself and other artists. That frustration first appeared in “Make Me the Villain,” but the song eventually became something much bigger. It opened the door to an entire album about what happens when other…