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Helena May Side Effects – A Funk-Driven Call for the Soul

From the Heart, Through the Bassline Let’s be honest - I wasn’t ready for Helena May with Side Effects. I thought I was, sitting there sipping bad coffee, thinking I’ve heard every variation of nu-funk, retro-soul, and that oh-so-trendy vintage horn section parade. But Helena May just swung the door open like a sunrise with brass. And not the polite kind. The kind that makes your feet move before your brain gives green light. With Side Effects, she tiptoe into […]

04/07/2025 202 41

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Alt Folk

Jeremy Engel Ocean Release Marks a Soulful Folk Journey

The Ocean Is Blue Only Where The Soul Hangs On I remember once hearing someone say, “The deepest truths arrive quietly.” That’s exactly how Jeremy Engel’s new single Ocean washed over me this morning - with a subtle, relentless pull. Like something ancient whispering just beneath the tide. Released today, July 1st, 2025, Ocean opens its arms to the ones barely holding on, to anyone drifting between a breakdown and a breakthrough. Just a haunting folk confession carried on acoustic […]

01/07/2025 149 27

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Funk

The All’s Eye Carriage House Tour Spins Soul, Jazz & Psychedelia

Something’s Brewing at the Carriage House I’ve heard a lot of tracks that try to sound live - loose, sweaty, a little unstable in the best way - but Carriage House by The All’s Eye lives there. It thrives in that odd in-between where you can almost hear the amps warming up and someone cracking a beer. And that's cool, man. The single dropped on digital shelves on June 26 via Music Factory Records, just in time to light the […]

30/06/2025 115 26

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Pop

Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira’s New Celtic Folk Album Here to Stay

I Never Wrote About Celtic Folk Music - Until Now I’ve written about techno. About indie misfits screaming into the void. Even about bedroom pop drenched in reverb and existential dread. But Celtic folk? Despite the fact that I often let it play while the kettle boils and the sky does its grey thing over the UK, I’ve never properly written about it. So here’s me, finally pulling up a chair next to the fire, to talk about Here to […]

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Concerts

Untold Festival 10th Anniversary: Packing for Cluj This August

Untold Festival 10th Anniversary: Packing for Cluj This August Every summer, Cluj-Napoca starts to vibrate. The city hums like it’s hiding something too wild to say out loud. And this year, it’s louder than usual - Untold Festival turns ten. Untold Festival 10th Anniversary - a decade is no joke in this business. Ten years of beats, bass, fire, glitter, and strangers becoming instant best friends in the dark. I’ve been watching the build-up like a ritual - playlist loaded, […]

28/06/2025 156 49

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Electronic

Ooberfuse Zeeba Da Boo: A Quirky Groove for Dreamers

A trumpet, a dancefloor, and a question There are songs that arrive like a warm breeze. Zeeba Da Boo (Why oh Why) just waltzed right in today, cocktail in hand, vintage shades on, and started talking about dreams. I’ve written about Ooberfuse before - months ago, when I first tripped over their sound. It felt like opening an old drawer in a new room: familiar and odd at once. Now they’re back with something that smells of sunshine, dance sweat, […]

27/06/2025 135 27

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Folk Rock

Flow Like a River: A Folk-Rock Meditation on Inner Balance

Cracks in the Mirror, Music in the Silence I don’t know about you, but I’ve had days where the news sounds like noise, the mirror throws shade, and your own thoughts are the loudest hecklers in the room. That’s where Flow Like a River lands. By Forrest Hill. Right in the soft meat of that disorientation. The kind that creeps in when you're trying to keep it together, trying not to spiral, trying to convince yourself that, yeah, you’re probably […]

24/06/2025 130 26

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Pop

Farbod Biglari Waltz for Baran – A Fully Cinematic Rain Escape

A Forgotten Melody Finds Its Moment There’s something wildly poetic about a man chasing the ghost of a tune he wrote as a teenager - like digging up a time capsule with a guitar string still humming inside. Composer Farbod Biglari let this one simmer for years. A melody born in his early teens waited patiently, growing roots in silence until the time felt right. Then, in the quiet of his Vancouver home studio, he brought it back to life […]

24/06/2025 111 33

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Pop

Shara Strand Love Forever – A Debut Album That Dares to Feel

SHARA STRAND’S LOVE FOREVER LANDS WITH FIRE, FLAWS, AND FULL HEART Not long ago, I wrote about Happy Ending - a single that felt like the start of something bigger. Turns out, I was right. Love Forever, Shara Strand’s debut album, is here, and it plays like a love letter to every version of yourself you’ve had to drag through the fire. I sat down to listen thinking I’d just dip in. Instead, I got pulled under, track by track, […]

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