New Radicals and Michelle Branch - The Game of Love

Grammy Award-winning artist Michelle Branch and New Radicals frontman Gregg Alexander share a new, reimagined version of “The Game of Love,” produced by Alexander. The new version brings Branch back together with Alexander, the song’s original writer and producer, for their first collaboration since the song initially came out in 2002. The release of “The Game of Love” heralds a brand new era of music for Branch, with her Everywhere and Back Again EP arriving November 6 via BMG. The project celebrates Branch’s 25-year career and brings her iconic catalog into a new era through reimagined recordings featuring friends, peers and special guests. Everywhere and Back Again revisits the songs and cultural moments that have defined Branch’s career, while looking firmly toward the future. “Getting to hear these songs, many I wrote as a teenager, performed by friends and peers that I so greatly admire has been such a ‘pinch me’ moment as a songwriter,” Branch shares.  “Suddenly these adolescent songs about love lost and found take on an entirely new meaning and weight when sung by artists of all different genres and in a different era. Being able to celebrate a 25 year career while firmly believing my best work is still ahead of me is the dream of any artist. And having fans that have grown up beside me who are still listening and still care after all these years is the greatest gift. Thank you all for helping me celebrate.” Michelle Branch also announced her Everywhere and Back Again Tour starting September 27th.

Mallory Hawk - Four O’Clocks

Mallory Hawk shared her poignant new single “Four O’Clocks,” a gentle and cadenced meditation on her childhood home, from her forthcoming debut album, Chinook. “This song is about the house I lived in from ages 6 to 16 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. It was eventually demolished by the city so they could build a highway that made it easier to get to the Fort Bragg military base from residential areas. Shortly after we moved, a tornado came through and damaged the house, which was really jarring and made us grateful to have left even though we never wanted to. I tried driving back there and got far enough to remember that it’s not even possible to visit or really identify where the house was—it’s a highway exit ramp now,” she explains of the song, which is accented by muted French horn and flugelhorn. “‘Four o’clocks’ are the flowers that lined the walkway to our front steps. They're fragrant and magenta, and only bloom from 4 to 8 pm. They were always fresh when I got home from school and the smell just transports me there—it’s such a vivid memory for me, down to the sounds, colors, and textures. I really wanted to just feel the winds and smell the smells of my home and reflect on how far I’d come since then, but the reality is quite drab and anti-climactic.”

Olivia Prado - Up n Down

Los Angeles-based pop-R&B artist Olivia Prado releases her new single, "Up n Down," the latest preview of her forthcoming EP, Dirty In The Sand, due out August 26. Warm, magnetic, and impossible not to move to, the track captures the effortless confidence and playful femininity at the heart of Prado's artistry. “This song was inspired by movement, dance, and groove,” Prado shares. “I actually wrote it while dancing around my apartment. I wanted to create something that makes you feel confident and empowered without trying too hard. To me, it feels cool, stylish, and unapologetically feminine.”

Alaina May - The Dog 

Brooklyn-based indie singer and songwriter Alaina May returns with her new single, "The Dog." The release follows her recent single "Casual" and offers another glimpse into her forthcoming body of work created alongside acclaimed indie rock duo TOLEDO. Built around warm acoustic textures, airy harmonies, and intimate storytelling, "The Dog" explores what May describes as "loving like a dog," a loyal-to-a-fault kind of affection that is both beautiful and perilous. Inspired by her experience of falling in and out of love for the first time while raising a puppy named Aspen, the song draws a poignant parallel between a dog's unwavering devotion and the ways we can lose sight of our own needs in pursuit of love. “In the past, when I've loved someone, I've turned a bit of a blind eye to my own wellbeing in order to preserve peace or keep things pretty. I think now, I am much more self-aware of this tendency, and this song played a part in existing in that awareness," May shares. "Without a doubt, loving deeply is so beautiful and is one of life's wonders, but I've learned that healthy love will always consider the self alongside the other person. This song feels like a spilling out of where my brain has been on the topic of loving deeply. It sits in such a personal place within my being.”

Andrew Sa - Under You

“I often describe ‘Under You’ as ‘all the good stuff.’ My friend Liam Kazar wrote this song for me during lockdown in 2020. Having written songs together in the past, he was very familiar with my voice and really captured the cadence of it. Drawing inspiration from Roy Orbison and the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud, he wrote an epic journey of what I think of as that new love obsession period. The spell of love. This is the first song we recorded during the first Fidelitorium session. Together with H.C. McEntire, we adapted the groove and the swagger we found went on to inspire a lot of the album. The steel across the record was recorded by Allyn Love in his central North Carolina home studio. I happily took on the responsibility of comping from his many takes. I often thought of the steel as the voice of the “other” in these songs.” - Andrew Sa

EELS - Cap In Hand

"Cap In Hand" is a bittersweet and beautifully bruised first taste of the upcoming EELS album, told from the perspective of someone finally confronting their mistakes and now attempting to set things right. The warm-hearted, rueful and quietly triumphant song, sets the tone for an album that finds E (Mark Oliver Everett) turning his gaze toward life's small victories, inevitable disappointments and the strange miracle of having been here at all. About the song, E says: “I wanted to sound kind of worn out for this one too, like someone who’s messed up their life but now sees the error of their ways and is trying to make amends with their tail between their legs. You know how record companies are: “We don’t care what you give us, just make sure you sound defeated on the first two tracks!” 

Joe Lombardo - Story Of You And MeJoe Lombardo, hailing from the New Jersey and Philadelphia area, is carving a niche for himself in the music scene. His unique blend of acoustic rock, folk, and melodic pop music is heavily influenced by working-class storytelling. Joe seamlessly combines the raw energy of classic rock with the intimate feel of acoustic folk. His songs are characterized by clean melody lines, prominent acoustic guitar strumming, and raspy, emotive vocals. Joe’s songwriting draws inspiration from personal narratives and heartland rock influences, drawing comparisons to storytelling artists who focus on everyday life, relationships, and societal themes. The new EP also includes the featured song “Story of You and Me,” an example of Joe’s lyrical storytelling and melodic acrostic style. This track is layered with modern production, creating a balance between a rustic folk feel and a catchy pop hook. It draws inspiration from Joe’s influences from the music styles of the 60s and 70s and has become a crowd favorite during his live performances.

Elizabeth Cook - Girls of Atomic City

Revered country singer-songwriter Elizabeth Cook released a new single, “Girls of Atomic City” off her forthcoming album Great Television. The new studio album, which promises a collision of country and rock & roll, was produced by Shooter Jennings and will be released on August 14 via Thirty Tigers. “Girls of Atomic City” is an empowering, rock-country earworm that illuminates the type of lives typically sidelined in the dominant media narrative by highlighting the independence of the women who worked on the Manhattan Project. Elizabeth sings, “their mamas just could not believe, they work and pay their own rent.”

“A while back I learned about the women who worked on the Manhattan Project, and it was such a fascinating a-ha moment for me,” says Cook. “People tend to think about the atomic bomb in very black-and-white terms, but for a lot of those women, it opened up a whole new world where they got to leave home for the first time and make their own money. It was such a major cultural shift.” 

Jess Williamson - Goodbye to All That

Texas-born singer-songwriter Jess Williamson announced the forthcoming release of A Mile South of Heaven, her sixth studio album and New West Records debut, produced by Shooter Jennings at the famed Sunset Sound in Hollywood. Slated for release on October 9, the new LP was written between LA and Marfa, where the acclaimed artist splits her time, and explores the spiritual push and pull between the two vastly different worlds, from Hollywood ambition to the quiet beauty of Far West Texas. Alongside the announcement, Williamson released the first single, “Goodbye to All That.” Inspired by her favorite Joan Didion essay by the same name, Williamson reveals, “Didion’s essay is about leaving New York after eight years and how ‘it’s distinctly possible to stay too long at the fair.’ In my eighth year of living in LA, I felt it was time to leave. I wrote this song as my farewell to LA, but songs are powerful in sneaky ways, and the song itself changed my mind. I realized I wasn't finished with life in LA.” All of the stories shared on A Mile South of Heaven (the wins and losses, growth and setback, beauty and discomfort, confidence and uncertainty) create an imagistic narrative world that is, above all, deeply human and relatable. “Depending on your outlook, a mile south of heaven may sound sad, or it may sound hopeful,” Williamson explains. “We’re always a mile south of the impossible goals we set for ourselves, and my point is, maybe that’s ok, because a mile is pretty close. It’s about appreciating where we are now, because there is no finish line. There is always more work to be done.”  

Niko Moon - ROOTS“ROOTS is the most personal music I’ve ever made. These songs are about where I come from, the people who shaped me and the values I want to carry with me wherever life takes me. Sonically, the album is inspired by the places that raised me and the sounds I grew up around, from Georgia to Texas to Nashville. I wanted it to feel honest and lived-in, like sitting around with family and friends, sharing stories and remembering what really matters. I can’t wait for people to hear the full record and to bring these songs to life out on the road.” At its heart, ROOTS is a deeply personal reflection on the journey that brought Moon to where he is today. Raised by a young mother and a truck-driving father, he spent parts of his childhood moving between trailers and extended-stay motels before finding stability and a sense of belonging through family, community and music. Across the album, Moon looks back on those formative years and the places that shaped him while tracing the path to the life he has built today as an artist, songwriter, husband and father. Rather than leaving his past behind, ROOTS celebrates how those early experiences shaped his perspective, strengthened his optimism and taught him to measure success through family, gratitude and purpose.

Gym Class Heroes - Universal Language

After 15 years, multi-platinum genre-defying hitmakers Gym Class Heroes. are officially back with new music. The acclaimed group returns with their brand new single, “Universal Language,” marking their first new release in over a decade and kicking off a massive new chapter that includes more music, major festival appearances, and a forthcoming full-length album. Frontman & pop culture icon Travie McCoy says the song was born from years of life experience, travel, heartbreak, and reflection. “I’ve been traveling this planet for more than half of my life, and I speak two languages, one I’m fluent in and one I was born with. I’ve been in a long-term relationship with someone who didn’t speak much English, and sad to say, she’s the one that got away. But I think this song is letting people know that LOVE is and ALWAYS will be the UNIVERSAL language. It’s the ultimate final boss for AI. I feel that’s something that could never be coded or built into a motherboard - the look from one human to another that says, I GET IT.”

Slow Fiction - Turning Down Flowers

NYC’s Slow Fiction today released “Turning Down Flowers,” their driving and incrementally explosive latest single previewing their debut album dollhouse, due out on August 7th via Tight Knit. Vassallo explains: "When I was younger, I used to love that the word ‘together' split up was ‘to get her.’ At this point, it’s unrealistic to expect every song a woman sings about womanhood or an exploration of existing in a certain body to be uplifting and overtly empowering… that’s not equality. We should be able to express being super existentially depressed about our place in a room, and act weird about it. I don’t think we’re typically allotted that space, especially in certain genres of music and art." The self-produced dollhouse, mixed by Sonny DiPerri (DIIV, Julie), is available for pre-order HERE. Dollhouse frames identity as something both intimate and observed: a private world that’s always, somehow, on display. An uneasy sense of play runs throughout these 11 tracks, where surveillance and introspection blur together to probe the line between who we are in private, and who we become when we’re seen: by others, via the internet, or by ourselves. Lyrics twist in perspective, circling petty pain and other people’s cruelties, searching for some kind of clarity. “Who are you when no one’s looking back or through,” Vassallo sings on opener “junior year” over a quizzical bass line and refracting guitars that build to catharsis. It’s propulsive rock that encourages reflection.