In the first edition of This Week’s Four, our new weekly series that selects four artists from submissions to ROMBO’s Instagram Open Call, LA singer-songwriter O Warwick leads with his debut single. “Lonely Creek” drifts through forest memory and self-recognition with a voice that is both grounded and luminous.
The Naarm/Melbourne songwriter draws on bedroom production roots and Brisbane’s trip-hop scene for a five-track EP about first love and confusion.
In a new podcast, Boyd reveals no one from the Sam Mendes films contacted her or tour manager Chris O’Dell. The productions seem set on a version of the story that ignores living witnesses.
The rapper’s Brockwell Park headline set introduced her electronically-inclined EP to a massive crowd on the festival’s sweltering final day.
The latest installment of The Number Ones dismantles “Permission To Dance” as a pure commercial placeholder, raising uncomfortable questions about how the K-pop phenomenon’s chart history will be remembered.
Brian Connolly debuts as The Tacet Mode with a meticulously produced indie-rock record that fuses 1980s atmospheric lineage and contemporary clarity. Produced by Alex Newport with guitar work from Leo Abrahams, Not How You Color maps transformation, ego, and authenticity across fourteen tracks of controlled emotional weight.
The Missouri trio recorded their new album after hours in a Syracuse University studio. It arrives July 14 without a label, marking a hard-won independence.
The Bradford-born singer’s homecoming at AO Arena mixed his latest album Konnakol with older material, showcasing a voice that needs no studio help. He dedicated the night to his mother and left nostalgic reunions aside.
The modular composer opens Someone Special with a beat-driven record built on confrontation, just days before a Barbican concert that revisits her gentler past.
For decades, the melancholy of “Rocket Man” was tied to Bowie’s “Space Oddity.” Bernie Taupin says the real inspiration came from a 1951 short story, and Elton John had no idea.
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