Portland duo Exceptional Failures return with their debut full-length ‘Jungle in My Head’. What Distler (vocals/guitar) and Damian (drums) deliver here is a delirious, genre-shifting joyride through rock’s wildest corners, stitched together with an energy so volatile it practically shakes the walls. Across eight tracks, EF tear through rock’s sprawling family tree withContinue Reading

There’s something irresistible about a debut that already feels lived-in, a first chapter that arrives with a kind of trembling honesty. Elke Louie’s ‘Killing Time’ is exactly that: a soft, striking introduction from a Queensland songwriter whose voice carries the weight of reflection and the tenderness of someone learning toContinue Reading

Rock newcomers The Whips unveil ‘Together in Agony’, a song that channels quiet heartbreak through tight musicianship and lyrical honesty. Written by Max Indiveri and recorded entirely in the band’s small Kansas City studio, the track is stripped of studio polish but full of emotional nuance. Frontman Max Cooper, fresh off his four-chair turn on The Voice, deliversContinue Reading