Louise Aubrie has always lived between places, London first, then New York, now Los Angeles, and on her new single “Vienna”, that movement finally becomes the whole point instead of just background noise. Recorded at East West Studios in Hollywood, the track pulls directly from her recent relocation to the city of angels while still […]
Heidi Martin doesn’t make a record about Abbey Lincoln. She makes a record that sits inside Abbey Lincoln’s orbit and lets the gravity do the work. Two Years in the Archive “Attunement”, out now, comes after two years Martin spent buried in Rutgers University’s archive of Lincoln’s personal journals, part of a 2023-2024 research stint
Has Pop Music Gone Stale? Walk into a record store in 2026 and you’ll hear something weird happening. The best pop albums in the past couple of years feel more inventive and unpredictable than they did in the early 2010s. But the charts? They’re moving slower than they have in decades, with the same songs
Hello, Pharaoh! What Do You Enjoy Most About Being A Musician In 2026? 2026 has been super fun so far. I just put out my album and of course the hit song “Enough For You” arrived with it, giving me a boost of popularity. Popularity is totally new to me, I knew it’d begin one
Hello! What Do You Enjoy Most About Being A Musician In 2026 The sense of purpose. In 2026, with everything we’re reckoning with, white supremacy, environmental collapse, the erosion of empathy, I get to use language and music as tools for transformation. NoteSpeak is a doorway. Every performance, whether at Carnegie Hall or a small
Hello! What Do You Enjoy Most About Being A Musician In 2026? Creativity is what I really find uncanny. From a white sheep of paper completely blank, a song can be born. And I also enjoy playing live a lot. Getting inside the story portrayed and sing your heart out. Which Track Of Yours Means
“I’m on the Upside” has a warm, retro feel and celebrates doing things your own way, what inspired the message behind the song? The melody actually came to me spontaneously while I was doing the dishes. I started humming something undefined, and suddenly a melody took shape — what later became the chorus. At the
Hello, philojain! “Riff Raff” is an instrumental track with a massive wall of sound, what inspired you to create a piece so intense and guitar-driven? Mostly my love for experimenting with the layered architecture of a bass driven track that has other guitar layers atop of each other. The guitar driven intensity is mostly narrative
Hello, Ervin, your new album “When I Think” spans intimate folk moments to rocky edges, what was your creative vision for this record? I wanted to show that I was capable of writing songs that span folk and rocky sounds. Aeron was also a very very good electric guitarist and bass player and I wanted to
I stumbled across philojain’s “Riff Raff” on Press Noise and it became one of those late night rabbit holes where you keep hitting play on things you’ve never heard before. The second it started I turned my volume up. That guitar comes in like it has something to prove and the sub bass underneath it
“New Obsession” by Olie Beckett lands somewhere between a confession and a warning sign. The kind of song that knows exactly what it is doing to you and does it anyway. The verses carry this loose, almost cocky self awareness, like Beckett is narrating his own spiral from a safe distance. Then the chorus tears
Norfolk based folk singer-songwriter Ervin Munir returns with his third studio album, When I Think, released on 6th February, and it is a record that genuinely deserves attention. Honest Words Across 11 tracks, Ervin builds something that feels considered without ever feeling overworked. The album opens with Lifeline and moves through a range of emotional
The Mountain review: There is a moment near the end of The Mountain where everything goes quiet. Not silent, exactly, but stripped back to something essential: a flute, a gentle hand on the drum, Damon Albarn singing as though nobody is listening. It is the kind of moment that makes you feel like you have
Bruno Gugliano is doing something different out of Buenos Aires, and honestly, it caught me off guard in the best way possible. His project Brunio Who just dropped “Brunio’s Mind,” and calling it just an album feels like missing the point entirely. This thing spans 16 tracks, but it’s really the first season of something
Hello, I Musici Gemelli. What inspired you to create an album entirely centered on the life of Christ? The starting point was a spiritual intuition: to recount the life of Jesus not as a simple narrative cycle, but as an inner journey, punctuated by sound images. Together with the composer, Emanuele Stracchi, we began to
USB002 Review USB002 review: I have to admit, there is something wonderfully chaotic about the way Fred again.. released USB002. Most artists drop an album on a Friday and call it a day. Fred decided to spend ten weeks traveling the world, releasing one song at a time, performing in cities announced mere days before
Hello! What Do You Enjoy Most About Being A Musician In 2025? The thing i enjoy the most about being a musician in 2025 is the excitement of not knowing where your music could take you. It’s true that the market is more condensed than years ago there are much more musicians out there competing
Hello! What Do You Enjoy Most About Being A Musician In 2025? I feel that increasingly more artists over the last few years, particularly in rock and metal, are being bolder with their sound and expertly genre bending which is creating some really exciting music that is breaking barriers and bringing more and new fans to
Hello, there! ‘Simple Place’ tackles some really heavy themes about community breakdown and raising children in today’s world. What was the moment or experience that made you feel you had to write this song? This song has been in the works for a very long time and I think its something that all of have
How did the idea of blending Indian ragas with European-influenced jazz come about? Max: It was a natural development, because I’ve been interested in Indian Classical Music since I was 12 years old, and moved to Mumbai to learn from Pandit Nayan Ghosh when I was 24 – he’s a sitar player, but I always
