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Following a standout headline show in Los Angeles, rising R&B artist Lee Lewis returns with HOWL, a six track EP that blends vintage soul, contemporary R&B, trip hop and cinematic pop into his most personal project yet.Rooted in vulnerability, HOWL explores love, identity and healing through the lens of Lewis’ experience as a Black queer artist. His classically trained vocals and signature falsetto glide across rich, expansive production, creating a collection that feels both intimate and cinematic.Opening track “Forever & You” sets the tone with understated instrumentation that allows Lewis’ voice to take centre stage, while standout single “Your Love…
MACHiNE does not ease into its subject. It locks into a cycle of riffs, fractured rhythms, and industrial pressure designed to mirror a mind losing control of its own impulses. The new single from Los Angeles metal project Grihastha is built around the point where desire stops feeling like a choice and starts operating like code.Created by Grammy-nominated producer and multi-instrumentalist Nikhil Suresh, the track explores the moment conscious thought is overridden by automatic behaviour. Suresh explains:It’s about how desire bypasses conscious thought and takes over as an automated program…It’s about the moment of conflict that occurs when desire for…
In this new entry in our ‘Diamonds In The Rough’ category, we would like to introduce you to upcoming artist Yalee and his brand new single titled “Paper Cups Paper Plates, Pt. 2” featuring Kvngshad. Los Angeles genre-bending artist Yalee continues to turn personal experiences into powerful storytelling with the release of his new single “Paper Cups Paper Plates, Pt. 2” featuring longtime collaborator and fellow Ohio native Kvng Shad. A deeply reflective follow-up to his emotionally charged original, the track transforms everyday moments of hardship into vivid imagery, blending soulful melodies, introspective rap, and the raw honesty that has…
Chicago singer-songwriter’s highly promising debut album explores the ceaseless ebb and flow of life’s hopes and fears.Recorded in a house on the shore overlooking a frozen lake in Wisconsin, while nature lay dormant beneath a landscape of snow and ice, Max Suber’s debut solo album encapsulates its surroundings with a sparseness that accommodates both stagnation and growth. Emerging from ten days of solitude, with only his guitar and a mobile recording rig for company, he then returned to his home studio with the framework for eleven songs, where the necessary texture and colour were added through additional sessions with the…
Netflix has released the official trailer for The Whisper Man, offering the first extended look at its adaptation of Alex North‘s bestselling psychological thriller. Set to premiere on August 28, 2026, the film appears to faithfully capture the tense, unsettling atmosphere that made the novel an international success. The story centres on a widowed crime novelist whose life is thrown into turmoil when his eight-year-old son disappears without explanation. Desperate to bring him home, he reluctantly reunites with his estranged father, a retired detective, to investigate the case. As the search unfolds, the pair uncover connections to a decades-old investigation…
Apple Original Films has released the official trailer and key art for Mayday, an upcoming action-comedy starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh. Directed, written and produced by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the film combines Cold War espionage with buddy-comedy elements. The story follows Lieutenant Troy “Assassin” Kelly (Reynolds), a talented U.S. Navy pilot whose classified mission inside Soviet territory goes disastrously wrong, leaving him trapped behind enemy lines. After being discovered by Nikolai Ustinov (Branagh), a former KGB operative with an unexpected fascination for American culture, Troy prepares for the worst. Instead, the pair forms an unlikely partnership…
In January 2024, Patty ended fan speculation and confirmed As It Is’ hiatus, two years after releasing I WENT TO HELL AND BACK and five after Ben’s exit from the band. But nearly three years later, they’ve reformed, reissued their debut, and written album five from the ground up. It all feels like a combination of destiny and miracle. “When we did start reconnecting, it was going for drinks and hanging out as friends first,” clarifies Ben. “I needed to step away because it was more of a identity crisis, not knowing who I was outside of being Ben from…
Asia guitarist John Mitchell has announced what will be the very final Lonely Robot album, aptly titled, An Ending, will be released through White Knight Records on September 11.Mitchell has shared new video for This World Window, the first track from the upcoming album, which features the sad refrain, “I’m a lonely robot, and I’ve come to say goodbye…”, and which you can watch below.“With this album, I wanted to close the circle of the Lonely Robot universe and bring back some of the elements that inspired the initial writing process,” Mitchell says. “I hope Lonely Robot fans find this…
In 2020, on the second anniversary of Conway Savage’s death, Nick Cave shared a shaggy dog story about the former piano player in the Bad Seeds, as a pungent example of his anarchic spirit. It recalled the time Savage first met his future bandmate Warren Ellis after a Dirty Three show in Melbourne. “Good show, mate,” Savage told Ellis, “but if I see you play that flute again I’ll ram it up your arse.” Decades later, having undergone emergency surgery to remove a brain tumour, Savage took the time to send Ellis a letter: “Warren, I was wrong about the…
Long running Minneapolis alt-country rock stalwarts The Jayhawks are set to release their new album – their twelfth since 1986 – at the end of August. The album is titled Sanctuary Park and is due out on 28th August on the Thirty Tigers label.The album’s release will be prefaced by a lead-off single Keeping Our Heads Above Water. The Jayhawks have already started extensively touring the new album on their initial jaunt of US dates during July and August, but will also be undertaking a sizeable UK and European tour to coincide with its release throughout September before returning for…
It’s hard to remember a time when horror felt quite this essential. Over the course of the first half of 2026, we’ve seen the genre dominate box office charts and read so many news pieces about horror books getting much-anticipated movie adaptations, underlining something horror fans have long argued: that these stories can do far more than deliver cheap thrills. At its best, horror provides a way of exploring grief, social unease and deeply personal fears, often with a clarity that more straightforward drama struggles to match. And people aren’t just looking for a quick startle anymore – they are…
Mac Lloyd returns with ‘Skin To Skin’, a self-released single that blends vintage ’60s soul influences with a modern story of hookup culture and unrequited love. The track explores the emotional emptiness of relationships built solely on physical attraction, wrapped in warm soul grooves, bluesy guitar and elegant keys from Martin Robinson of The Chosen Kin.A true DIY effort, Lloyd handled the recording, production, mixing, mastering and even the artwork himself. Speaking about the release, he says: “This one was a true labour of love… everything was done in-house, from the artwork to the recording, mixing and mastering, and I…