By: Josh Kitchen / November 26, 2025 All photos: Amanda Verdadero LA-based New Jersey transplant Kirsten Izer wants to get real. After dropping her poignantly relevant The Perfect Hire EP earlier this year, she’s already back with a brand-new single, “Anyone But Me,” where she examines feelings of insecurity and imposter syndrome that anyone trying to make sense of life in the modern world can relate to. Izer has been hungry for a life in music since she was just ten years o

By: Josh Kitchen / November 25, 2025 Photo Credit: Helena Wolfenson Sergio Sayeg has only been making music under the moniker Sessa for six years now, but the São Paulo native’s classically Brazilian-influenced oeuvre sounds as if it’s been floating around in the musical ether for decades. Earlier this month, Sessa released his third studio album, Pequena Vertigem de Amor , and it’s his best one yet. On his first two records, Grandeza and Estrela Acesa , Sessa leaned into m

By: Josh Kitchen / November 21, 2025 Photo Credit: Ryan Molnar When Jordy and Ben met in Liverpool in 2022, neither of them expected they’d end up starting a band together—let alone write and record a full-length album and have it out on a major label within a couple of years. But sometimes the alchemy is just right and the stars really do align. Jordy, who hails from Hawaii, was studying at University in Liverpool when she met Ben, who’s from Manchester. She’d been playing a

By: Josh Kitchen / November 20, 2025 Photo Credit: David O'Donohue You've probably seen Diana Silvers' face. From the cool and mysterious Hope in Olivia Wilde’s coming-of-age hit Booksmart , to Maggie in the horror-thriller Ma —co-starring Octavia Spencer in the titular role about a group of teenagers who befriend a lonely older woman only for things to spiral into something much darker—Silvers has already made a name for herself in film, TV, and modeling. Diana Silvers - Fro

By: Josh Kitchen / November 19, 2025 Photo Credit: Pooneh Ghana When Greta Kline started releasing demos on Bandcamp in 2014 as Frankie Cosmos, her DIY ethos and bedroom-pop lo-fi tracks were immediately embraced for their honest and raw vulnerability. Songs like “Leonie” and “Art School” felt like glimpses into the mind of an artistic, hyper-creative 20-year-old who sang as if she had to get every idea out or risk losing the chance to speak. Over the next decade, Frankie Cos

By: Josh Kitchen / November 7, 2025 Photo Credit: Jamie Lee Taete Graphic designer and artist Jenny Hirons never planned to release the music she’d been quietly exploring in her personal life. Though she’s been playing piano since the age of six, her professional world has long revolved around how she sees — not hears — the world. As founder of Studio Hirons, a multidisciplinary creative agency specializing in art direction, illustration, and graphic design, she’s built a car

Photo Credit: Apela Bell By: Josh Kitchen / November 4, 2025 “Everything had been flipped upside down, my heart ripped out of my chest, and I didn’t know how I could keep living.” New Zealand singer-songwriter Janine has long made a name for herself through honest, reflective pop music—spanning introspective ballads to dance-driven anthems her fans can’t get enough of. But a year ago, she faced a devastating loss when her father suddenly passed away. In this new normal, she r

Finds the Light in the Dark on New Album - Chuck By: Josh Kitchen / October 31, 2025 Photo Credit: Allan James Rogers “I see the state of everything around me / I excavate the meaning of it to feel seen,” Eleni Drake sings on “Paper Moons,” from her latest soul-baring offering, Chuck — out today. It’s a sentiment from someone searching for, and then realizing, it’s okay to feel joyful in a time of great collective pain. On Chuck , Drake sings about not regretting the feeling

By: Josh Kitchen / October 28, 2025 Photo Credit: Laine Wentworth “It’s time to get feral in the grass / time to make love to the world. But something isn’t right. What is it? I don’t know.” These lyrics from the opening track of Menacing Earthworks, Super Hit’s first album in three years, ask the listener to stop and think about the mess we’re in. What is there to do when your entire world is constantly being crushed by sadomasochistic imperialist fascist overlords hell-ben

Colin Blunstone On Sixty Years Of The Zombies By: Josh Kitchen / October 28, 2025 Photo Credit: Andrew Eccles It’s the time of the season / When love runs high / What’s your name, who’s your daddy? Is he rich like me? Those lyrics from "Time Of The Season," By The Zombies tickle my brain in a way that so many other songs I love just don’t . You can hear the sultry drums and smooth “aahh’s” sung by lead singer Colin Blunstone, accompanied by Rod Argent’s neon-tinged kaleidosco

By: Josh Kitchen / October 24, 2025 “When I give someone my time, that means everything.” On her new album Describe, Hannah Jadagu opens up about love, growth, and realizing her time is the most precious thing she can give. Photo Credit: Sam Wilbert “I love being around the people I care about, and when I give someone my time, that means everything. My friends know I’m an introvert, so when I say, ‘I hope you get all my time,’ I mean it.” This declaration from Hannah Jadagu

Lindsay ell Announces 2026 Headlining Tour And Talks New EP Fence Sitter By: Josh Kitchen / October 17, 2025 Photo Credit: Alyssa Lancaster With just a week until her new EP fence sitter drops, guitar virtuoso and singer-songwriter Lindsay Ell has announced a headlining tour set to kick off in January in London, before making her way through her native Canada, New York, and wrapping up at the iconic Troubadour in Los Angeles this March. Ell has been making dynamic, genre-blen

By: Josh Kitchen / October 16, 2025 Photo credit: Charlie Hyman "These songs represent a period I was growing out of; I could feel myself changing, and I needed to release them before moving on," the emerging Brooklyn-based alt-indie singer/songwriter JULESY told me about her debut LP, Flip The Bed. At just eight tracks and under half an hour, Flip The Bed offers a glimpse into an artist in metamorphosis. Her first EP, The Current Self, was aptly named—recorded as JULESY was

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