The Strokes return with a ballad that treats Auto-Tune not as polish but as texture, framing emotional distance through restraint rather than release.
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The Strokes return with a ballad that treats Auto-Tune not as polish but as texture, framing emotional distance through restraint rather than release.
From East Village anti-folk rooms to a Capitol imprint deal, film soundtracks, a Wall Street detour, and a catalog reclaimed on Meridian, Jamie Block has never stopped writing with the same unsentimental clarity. A career-spanning look at the songwriter behind Love Crash.
Independence in music is no longer defined chiefly by aesthetic posture or outsider identity. In 2026 it is increasingly measured by the operational infrastructure artists and labels are able, or unable, to build around ownership, data, direct relationships, and economic control. This editorial examines what real autonomy requires when scale, consolidation, and platform logic continue …
Rian Brazil is becoming the sound the UK scene has been missing. Raised on a Brighton council estate and now based in London, he has developed a liquefied style that blends breakbeats, vocal flips and raw emotion. With his debut EP already out and Engine Heartbreak dropping on 20 May, the 29-year-old shows how genre …
New York duo Fcukers refine post-pandemic club hedonism into lean, hook-driven songs on their debut album Ö. A study in controlled abandon that scales from Baby’s All Right to festival stages while retaining its seamy small-hours trace.
The Galway-born, Manchester-honed songwriter steps forward with a debut album that treats folk not as inheritance but as live material—intimate, oblique and built to last.
Jane Remover has constructed one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary music by treating genre not as container but as material under constant stress. Their sound moves through distinct phases, early digicore precision, hyperpop fracture, shoegaze expansion, and the hybrid large-scale urgency of recent releases, yet the central method remains unchanged: forms …
In the months since her A24 signing, Sophia Stel has kept the measured pace of her DIY origins. The deluxe edition of How To Win At Solitaire and the ongoing headline dates reveal an artist who treats atmosphere as structure and small emotional glitches as material worth recording.
Charli XCX releases the official video for new single “Rock Music”, directed by Aidan Zamiri. A precise, ironic take on rock reinvention after Brat, all serrated riffs, Louboutin heels and mountains of cigarettes.
Stockholm-born and long Berlin-based, MOLØ threads sub-bass, breaks and ambient space into a coherent language that feels both intimate and architecturally precise. Her forthcoming five-track EP on Atomnation refines everything she has built so far.
