3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1034+ words) Nicolle Knapová is a Czech writer, music journalist, and creative powerhouse with a Master’s degree in Creative Writing and Publishing from Bournemouth University. Now a contributing writer for Atwood Magazine, she specializes in emotionally rich song reviews that explore the…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (475+ words) Managing Editor Ollie Crook (they/them) is a Montréal-based journalist who has been covering music, in one form or another, for over ten years. But even way before that, as an oddball trans kid who never saw themselves in the…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (654+ words) Every open road asks for a sacrifice – the miles blur together, highway lines stretching endlessly beneath a sky that never seems to settle. There’s a peculiar loneliness in that constant motion, where gas station lights, late-night diners, and fleeting conversations…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (338+ words) Built on hushed call-and-response vocals, lush harmonies, and delicate, slow-burning wonder, “Walls” is visceral, vulnerable, and shiver-inducing: A song about sacred space, self-worth, and the long, non-linear work of reclaiming the parts of yourself another person once occupied. The Army,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1020+ words) It’s a song about collapse, yes – but also about release: The brutal, breathtaking freedom of naming the damage while it’s still burning. “We’re four New Zealand boys who found each other through music at different stages as we were growing…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (582+ words) It catches us in storefront glass, on streets we once walked with people we love, in the sudden realization that years have changed both the view and the person looking back. Edens give that experience a living pulse on “Empty…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1912+ words) That’s the hard truth behind America’s Greatest Burnout, Graves’ 12-song reckoning with the past decade of her life. There’s humor in the title, but it also captures what happened after years of chasing the success she’d been told was always…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1223+ words) On Shiverstruck, Jilian Medford has no interest in waiting for the dust to settle before she starts living again. The fifth album from her long-running IAN SWEET project catches her in motion – bruised but bright-eyed, romantic enough to make the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (425+ words) “I wrote these songs over several years, so I was changing while I was writing them. Looking back now, I can almost hear myself working things out in real time.” “The Wreckage,” which she wrote with her friend Kyshona Armstrong…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (549+ words) “My Mans” and “Fire 2” were popular for their thumping instrumentation and restless energy, while “Avalanche” approached the same sense with shimmery falsetto and a more lucent touch. Ives sings, “Out of the home and out of your cover / We need…...