The NYC-based singer/songwriter Kendra Morris stripped down her sound for her newest record, Next. The ten-song collection delivers a cool slice of minimalist indie-soul on Colemine Records.
Morris worked with her band, guitarist Supremo “Premo” Massiv, bassist Monti Miramonti, and drummer Chauncey Yearwood, and co-produced the album with Leroi Conroy, recording in Loveland, Ohio, and NYC. Morris’s voice is front and center as she can command the song using barely a whisper before rising up to the heavens during the next verse.
The effort “Dear Buddy” is an easy grooving example of Morris’ charms as understated pleasant backing supports the slow dripping soul of her voice as lyrically Morris focuses…
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With a patchwork recording process that’s worth acknowledging because it can be heard in the final product, Golden Apples’ fifth album, 
For Johnathan Blake, music has always been a family affair. The drummer and bandleader’s previous Blue Note album, Passage (2023), was an homage to his father and chief mentor, the late jazz violinist John Blake Jr. The album cover features a sepia-toned snapshot of father and son, taken by his godfather, Eugene Wood. On his label debut Homeward Bound (2021), Blake honored the memory of Ana Grace, daughter of his longtime friends, saxophonist Jimmy Greene and flautist Nelba Marquez-Greene, on the eponymous track, who succumbed during the Sandy Hook massacre.
…Limited Edition Digital Album includes the full album, album instrumentals, and two demos.
Sourced from the original masters, Mobile Fidelity’s hybrid SACD presents ‘Dangerous’ in audiophile-quality sound for the first time.
50 years together. 20 million records sold. More than 15 albums of guitar-driven Southern rock stacked high with hits like “Hold On Loosely,” “Caught Up In You,” “If I’d Been the One,” and “Second Chance.”
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Tom Meikle – known by the moniker Mappe Of – first emerged with the highly acclaimed, self-produced debut A Northern Star, A Perfect Stone in 2017.
Black Lips return with a brand-new studio album, 
NewDad’s debut album 
When the US-raised French-Haitian singer 
Electronic pioneers Propaganda follow up their acclaimed 2024 comeback with 
Skim through my concert bucket list and find Johnny Marr, most likely sitting between some random all-acoustic folk singer who last wrote a good song in the late Seventies and an Indie band that the NME tried to push to popularity in the mid-Noughties. A personal guitar hero and one of the few cool people to once be friends with Morrissey, Marr and his music carry this sort of indescribable presence. The intricacies of his genius fall into the seams of each song, whether that be his role as guitarist of The Smiths, as member of supergroup Electronic or amongst any one of the many musical collaborations Marr has added his musicianship to. And just over forty years later, he continues with impressive appeal, with his solo work declaring his ability to not be confined by the definition…
Toro y Moi’s 2024 album Hole Erth was one of the more interesting albums in a long career of genre shifts and explorations. On it, Chaz Bundick looks back at his younger years lyrically while unveiling a mix of cloud rap, nocturnal trap, chillwave, shoegaze, and emo pop that encased his alternately rapped and sung vocals like tendrils of a dream. While he was working on that, he also envisioned a companion album inspired by Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in NYC that stripped back the arrangements to something less dreamy and more grounded, while giving new context to the words. In 2025, 
An evocative, scene-setting project from its inception, Wilder Maker take their world-building to another level on 
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In a world that incessantly pressures artists to be “productive,” 
Even by Lebanon’s standards, the period from 2019 to 2021 was a turbulent period in the country’s history. In October 2019 protests against political corruption and the government’s poor handling of the stagnating economy erupted across the country. A new government was formed, yet this too crumbled in the wake of the huge explosion that rocked Beirut’s port area in August 2020. Rolling blackouts, shortages of fuel and medicines and general economic woe kept the protests – many of which were driven as much by women as men – continuing well into 2021.