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HOLLY Unleashes Addictive Alt-Pop Hit, ‘FIX’

HOLLY, the alt-pop artist carving her own lane after years in the shadows, has dropped her latest single ‘FIX’. With a background spanning New York, Sydney, and London, she spent over a decade honing her craft through international writing sessions and tours. Her resume includes key features on Synapson’s ‘Hide Away’, Delta Heavy and Dirty Audio’s ‘Stay’, and Eli &…

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ZOCO brings “Searching” into a bold, cinematic light

On ‘Searching’, ZOCO distills the project’s mission statement into a single, cinematic bolt of genre-blending rock. Founded and led by Marco Zocco, the international group frames iconic, guitar-forward writing with modern pop immediacy and a broad palette that nods to metal, SoundCloud rap, electronica, latin, dance, and blues. The result feels stylised yet vulnerable—technical in its construction, heartfelt in its…

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Aya Nakamura Answers the Noise with Pure Defiance on Destinée

Aya Nakamura refused to let 2024 define her by anything other than the music. After the racist firestorm around her Paris Olympics performance and endless tabloid noise, the French-Malian superstar returns with her fifth album Destinée – 18 tracks of unapologetic Aya-ism. At this point the numbers speak loud: over ten billion streams, the most-streamed Francophone artist ever, and a…

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BRUNETTO’s OOPARTS Is the Downbeats Curveball We Didn’t See Coming

When Brunetto disappears, he actually disappears. No loosies, no side projects, just silence. So when OOPARTS slipped out November 14 on Beautiful Accident, the six-track EP carried the weight of half a decade spent off-grid. The Spanish producer who helped map Spain’s instrumental hip-hop and trip-hop coordinates twenty years ago hasn’t lost a step; if anything, the break let him…

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Angela Merlino Unleashes Title Track ‘Water Mantra’ from Healing-Focused EP

London-based Spanish-Italian artist Angela Merlino just released ‘Water Mantra’, the lead single and title cut from her incoming EP. Raised in Manresa outside Barcelona with a Galician mother and Italian father, she grew up surrounded by her dad’s Fender Stratocaster riffs and her grandfather’s raw Flamenco “Canto Hondo”. Now she channels that heritage into art: self-produced tracks that layer tribal…

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Ollie Hunt Asserts Creative Sovereignty with Breakout Single ‘Ah!’

In a bold stride forward, Melbourne-based singer, producer, and performance artist Ollie Hunt unveils ‘Ah!’ — a sleek, three-minute masterclass in emotional clarity and stylistic precision. Released independently on October 24th, the single marks a defining moment in Hunt’s artistic evolution, blending high-gloss pop aesthetics with the raw assertiveness of personal truth. From the opening seconds, ‘Ah!’ sets a confident…

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Rosalía Continues to Show Artistic Growth as ‘LUX’ Lands with an Orchestral Touch

Dropping November 7, LUX arrived as Rosalía‘s latest full-length, the Spanish trailblazer’s fourth entry in a catalog that’s steadily rewritten pop’s rulebook. She first cracked the code with Los Ángeles and El Mal Querer, injecting flamenco’s fire into mainstream veins and then splintering its conventions to weave in urban grit and pop precision. MOTOMAMI followed in 2022, a humid, high-wire…

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‘Solo Una Vez’ Arrives: MAURINO and IR SAIS Deliver EP Finale Packed with Latin Flare and Heart

Released today, ‘Solo Una Vez‘ marks the close of MAURINO‘s newest EP, a project that spotlights his restless drive to remix global sounds. Coming from Chile but calling Amsterdam home, the artist carved his lane early with TenTemPiés on stage and Fiesta Macumba behind the decks, layering hip-hop drive into Latin rhythms and deep tropical bass. His discography backs it…

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TOUCH GROOV drop visceral dystopian single ‘FEELIN GOOD’

Newly established outfit TOUCH GROOV, have unveiled their latest offering ‘FEELIN GOOD’. Released today, the single is the first track to drop from their forthcoming EP Doorway to Dystopia Vol.1. Drenched in cyberpunk textures and dystopian atmospherics, ‘FEELIN GOOD’ carries a sense of longing, dread and rebellion with its understated yet visceral production. The single feels like it could easily be…

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