Seattle-based musician Igor Keller, the driving force behind Longboat, is setting the stage for another inventive chapter with his upcoming album The Merry Blacksmith’s Song Bucket. New Energy, New Ideas, Same Fearless Spirit Even after releasing more than 30 albums, Igor Keller continues to evolve with fearless creativity. His upcoming album, The Merry Blacksmith’s Song […]
XTINE Faces the Fire on “No Matter What”
XTINE has never been afraid to look pain in the eye. With her new single, “No Matter What,” the LA-based artist delivers a performance that feels less like a song and more like an exorcism. It’s bold, unnerving, and deeply human — the kind of track that doesn’t ask for your attention, it commands it. […]
Karen Salicath Jamali Shares New Piano Single “Mary’s Blessing”
Karen Salicath Jamali, the award-winning composer and pianist, has released a new piano composition titled “Mary’s Blessing.” The piece is unique in its origin, arriving to her in a dream before being captured on her Steinway piano. For Karen, this dream-born creativity is part of a larger journey that began after a near-death experience in […]
Beyond the Algorithm: Kris Kolls Crafts Authentic Pop
The current pop ecosystem seems designed to produce artists who sound like algorithms fed streaming data and focus group feedback. Which makes Kris Kolls feel like an anomaly—an artist whose path includes classical conservatory training, cabaret theater, and film school. Starting at age four on competition stages, Kolls developed her voice through Russia’s rigorous classical […]
Lipstick Killer Lights a Match on “Delaware Ave”
Lipstick Killer ’s new single, “Delaware Ave,” doesn’t whisper—it detonates. The track, the first glimpse into her upcoming Cigarettes & Heartbreak Vol. 1, is a raw exercise in anger turned into sound, a sonic exorcism of betrayal that doesn’t aim for catharsis so much as combustion. The beat thrashes between trap and punk chaos, while […]
HRISTELIN Finds a New Horizon With “Dubai Star”
For HRISTELIN, the move to Dubai wasn’t just about geography — it was about starting over. The singer and producer had already been carving out a lane for himself, but “Dubai Star” feels like the first time he’s letting the world in on his own terms. The track began with a simple guitar phrase, one […]
A Rhode Island Duo Chalumeau Paints With Every Shade of ‘BLUE’
When two Brown University professors walk into a studio, you don’t expect them to walk out with BLUE — a record that manages to be both intellectually rigorous and emotionally unguarded. Chalumeau, the duo of Katherine Bergeron and Butch Rovan, have taken the long way around to pop-rock, and the result is an album that […]
Katie Runnels Steps into New Era with “Imperfect Beauty”
Katie Runnels has never been interested in surface-level artistry. From her 2010 debut Reality Cloud to her latest single “Imperfect Beauty,” she has written music that reaches inward – searching, questioning, and ultimately offering listeners a space to reflect. With “Imperfect Beauty,” Katie Runnels steps into a new era. The track is sonically bold: spacious […]
J.I.D Releases Video For ‘Community’ Feat. Clipse — Watch
For a lot of people, Clipse currently have the album of the year with Let God Sort Em Out, which has had a big impact since its release about 6 weeks ago. So when the pair appeared on J.I.D’s new album God Does Like Ugly, fans went crazy. The collaboration is called ‘Community’ and is […]
Electric 5 Crash Through Genres with a New Sizzling Track
Electric 5 may have just dropped one of the boldest debuts of the year. The Chicago quintet of two electric cellos and three electric violins has unleashed a furious cover of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” complete with a striking video that has already pulled nearly 130,000 YouTube views in a month. It’s a release that feels […]