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Pop music doesn't need to reinvent dancing. Sometimes it simply needs to give you a convincing reason to start. Slay Raché understands that instinct on ‘You Make Me Wanna Dance’, a bright, swaggering collision of 80s dance-pop nostalgia and contemporary R&B confidence that remembers something occasionally forgotten in the pursuit of modernity: a great pop song should be immediate. Inspired by seeing the Michael Jackson musical in New York with her fiancé, the track wears its

Photo Credit: Nico Zanzucchi Rising hip-hop artist V1V1D enters his next chapter with ‘Tongue Rings & Tattoos’, an energetic new single bringing a carefree edge to the atmospheric rap sound behind his rapidly growing success. Following breakout tracks ‘Timeless’ and ‘Stuffin’, which have collectively generated millions of streams, V1V1D is beginning to establish his place within a new generation of hip-hop artists moving between contemporary trap and atmospheric rap. ‘Tongue

Montreal singer-songwriter Scott Cook has announced his new album Guy Fawkes Day, 1947, a seven-song set that blends indie rock, indie folk and singer-songwriter music with a jazz-influenced harmonic approach. It is a pretty wide musical palette, but Cook keeps the focus firmly on the songs, writing about the people, situations and everyday details happening around him. The album is informed by some heavyweight influences, including David Bowie, Peter Gabriel and Pink Floyd,

The best albums are often the ones that sound like nothing else. Scizzorman's new concept album, "How To Get Your Life Right With What's Left," is one of those albums. It is a seven-track trip through funk, glam, psychedelia, stoner rock, and beyond, and it sounds like a band that has finally found its voice. The Australian outfit formed in late 2024 after a post-pandemic hiatus and a lingering case of writer's block. That period of silence has clearly paid off. The songs on

UK-born American pop artist Nick Hissom, aka Hizzy, enters his most unapologetic era yet with new five-track EP ** Hot Boy Things **, turning the aftermath of a highly publicised breakup into a celebration of sex, spectacle and newfound freedom. Blending early-2000s pop with European dance music and American club production, the project marks Hissom’s reintroduction as an openly gay artist operating without the relationship and societal constraints he says previously surround

Lily Franc's The Fitting Room is the kind of debut that understands growing up is rarely as straightforward as it looks from the outside. Across six songs, the 21-year-old Dutch singer-songwriter turns the uncertainty of early adulthood into a colourful, emotionally observant collection about identity, expectation, heartbreak and learning when to let go. There is a conceptual thread running through the entire project, with each song representing a different version of the sel

There is an appealing sense of emotional disorder running through The Reach, the debut EP from Dutch alternative indie rock outfit After Eight. Across five songs, the band construct a world where tenderness and turbulence occupy the same room, where guitars can sound both abrasive and strangely comforting, and where vulnerability becomes something to be examined rather than concealed. Their palette is deliberately broad, drawing from alternative and indie rock while allowing

There is a deliberate sense of occasion to Atticus Roness' Rock 'N' Roll Hit Parade. The album arrives not simply as another release, but as the culmination of a creative process that began taking shape in 2021 and developed into recording sessions in 2026. That history matters because the finished record has the coherence of a long-considered statement. Across 13 songs, Roness presents a personal interpretation of rock music's enduring traditions, one that values melody as m

New York-born, Los Angeles-based alt-pop artist Michelle Kash has returned with her compelling new single, ‘Salvation.’ An upbeat yet emotionally charged dance-pop track, the release explores the fragile, high-stakes space between breaking down and breaking through, combining Kash's signature smoky, soulful vocals with sleek synth-driven production to turn a personal low point into an uplifting reminder of resilience. Known for crafting a distinct sonic world that feels a

Rising artist Ava Renn returns with ‘Sellout’s Prelude’, an ethereal new single exploring the fragile space between self-destruction and self-preservation. Blending cinematic pop, haunting vocals and hypnotic production, the track offers another glimpse into Renn’s forthcoming second studio album, You Want Love, a project documenting a journey through emotional darkness in search of healing. Dreamy and seductive on the surface, ‘Sellout’s Prelude’ carries considerably heavier

Photo Credit: Lea Duque There is an obvious contradiction in placing God and 666 inside the same song. For Alysha, that contradiction is exactly where things become interesting. On ‘Take It or Leave It’, the London-based artist takes faith somewhere it isn't usually expected to go, surrounding spiritual reflection with shadowy synths, gothic tension and nocturnal electronics. The result isn't a rejection of religious music so much as an argument that songs about belief don't

Photo Credit: Marjolein Nooijen Some songs belong to a particular place. ‘Con C.Alma (Dub Reggae Remix)’ seems more interested in collecting stamps in its passport. Amana Melome’s latest release has travelled an unusually long creative distance. Its foundations began with Amana's own vocal sketch, moved through Los Angeles with producer Saverio Principini and pianist Deron Johnson, took shape as a Latin-jazz composition, carried its vocals to Marbella and has now landed in A