GRAMMY-nominated artist and visionary TAVE unveils his debut EP Fly Away: a captivating blend of soulful sounds and transformative storytelling that invites listeners on an authentic and enthralling sonic journey through love, healing, and self-discovery. Inspired by introspective
moments in St. Lucia and a return to life’s fundamental truths, this collection explores heartbreak, personal growth, and the peace found in nature’s embrace. Packed with colorful vibrancy and unshakable emotional depth, Fly Away invites audiences to connect with their own stories while exploring TAVE’s artistry in an entirely new dimension. “It’s about having real conversations, and creating stories that stay true to what we are experiencing: melodies, truth, and ultimately… love,” shares TAVE.
MOIO doesn’t just make music, he commands emotion. In fact, the Nigerian- Irish singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist chases emotion with every lyric he pens, melody he sings, and beat, bassline, or guitar riff he plays. This pursuit has brought him to a space between genres, co-existing in the realms of R&B, indie, alternative, and soul—yet cleverly never committing to one above the other. By helming every aspect of his artistry, he’s able to operate fluidly, and his vision resonates across boundaries.
Growing up in Dublin, music called to MOIO as a child. His passion was fostered by church and the radio in equal measure. After taking piano lessons for several years, he taught himself guitar and bass. At 10-years-old, he sang live for the first time at school and fell in love with performing. Eventually, a friend urged him to download FL Studio to start cooking up beats of his own. Buzzing on Soundcloud with early uploads, he slowly but surely attracted an audience. During 2023, he dropped “SUNBEAMING” followed by “Open Your Eyes,” which amassed over 2.3 million Spotify streams. On its heels, MOIO’s single “Moments,” started to go viral a year after its release, climbing north of 19 million Spotify streams and notably catapulted to #1 on Spotify’s Viral 50 chart in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, Norway, Denmark, and New Zealand. Along the way, he incited the applause of HYPEBEAST, Fashionably Early, Dancing Astronaut, and more in addition to performing at the likes of Dublin’s Forbidden Fruit Festival and receiving an invite to support d4vd on tour.
Introducing Black Lounge, an emerging Indie Rock band based in Essex, making waves with their debut EP, Black Tapes. Over the past year, they’ve been dedicated to building their fanbase, sharpening their sound, and growing their presence across social media—all while crafting music they’re truly proud of. Their infectious blend of indie vibes and raw energy is now available for listeners to discover. Check out their debut EP on Spotify and follow their journey on Instagram and TikTok.
Emerging producer, guitarist, and singer-songwriter Madeline The Person returns with her deeply moving new single, ‘Man On The Moon’ – a tender and poetic tribute to her late father. Emotionally raw yet quietly powerful, the track captures the intensity of grief through beautifully layered metaphors and atmospheric production. What begins as a stripped-back acoustic guitar ballad gradually swells into a cinematic sound, with stirring strings and delicate textures that elevate the song’s emotional weight.
Soul-stirring Swiss singer-songwriter Kings Elliot returns with her new single ‘What If This World’, the latest glimpse into her highly anticipated album ‘Born Blue’, set for release on September 26th. Known for her cinematic, emotionally charged pop, Kings continues to balance heartfelt balladry with modern pop sensibilities, delivering lyrics that reflect on the fragility of our connections, to each other and to the world we share.
Lisbon-based duo MXGPU, comprising Portuguese electronic innovator Moullinex and singer/producer GPU Panic, today share their next single “slow down,” out now via Discotexas. The track arrives ahead of their collaborative project’s debut album, Sudden Light, set for release on September 26.
While the previous pop-d&b single “find u” served as a step outside their usual palette, MXGPU return to their signature sound on “slow down,” a melodic, slow-burning, dance music meditation. Guided by the mantra “slow down to make a mark,” the track echoes the fragile moment before impact, when clarity cuts through the noise. “slow down” explores the intimacy that has defined their 360° live shows and their creative bond: raw, deliberate, while carving emotion into every analog synth.
“There’s a pause, and time stands still. Your focus peaks, you can hear your own heart beating. When all you hear is shouting, a whispered voice will stand out. When everything feels rushed, it’s time to take it easy. Slow down, slow down to make a mark.” — MXGPU
the quintessential pop band of it-girls, The Aces, release their new album Gold Star Baby via SoundOn. A concept album that doesn’t take itself too seriously, Gold Star Baby is a metaphorical club in every city where if you know…you know. But everyone and anyone is invited to the best party of the summer. If their previous album is the backstory of discovering their identity, Gold Star Baby is in turn a celebration of queerness and escapist, sapphic, disco-pop fun. The largely self-produced album isn’t just an evolution for the 4-piece, but where they’ve been headed all along as they shed the weight of painful transparency and allow listeners to see them arrive liberated — Listen here.
The band shared, “When we started making ‘Gold Star Baby,’ there was one goal in mind: we just wanted to have fun. Pop melodies, pulsing four to the floor rhythm, shimmering guitars, and the funkiest bass lines we’ve written yet. It was simple. If it didn’t make us move, we wrote another song. All we wanted to do was dance.”
Opening with the narrated “Welcome to Gold Star Baby,” The Aces set up the velvet-roped sonic queue into the hottest club in town; almost a modern spin on George Clinton’s P-Funk mythology. The club’s musical guests that night? None other than The Aces, naturally.
The band begins crafting the perfect night out, even if it’s just the glitter-glossed mirage of escapism, across tracks like “Jealous,” “The Magic,” the album’s title track, and “You Got Me” for the clubgoers who start the night early and stay until the sun comes up. Then we reach the phone call that is “The Girls Interlude” where the fashionably latecomers figure out pregame plans and what they’re going to wear to Gold Star Baby to make their ex, who they’ll inevitably run into, jealous.
Kimberley, BC-based folk-roots duo The Eisenhauers return with “Something’s Gotta Give”, the soul-stirring second single from their forthcoming sophomore album Back Burner, out September 12 via Black Hen Music.
Written by Sheree Plett Eisenhauer, “Something’s Gotta Give” is a laid-back, introspective blend of folk and country, carried by the duo’s signature warm harmonies and an unflinching honesty about the precariousness of love.
“The song came from a place of real uncertainty about our relationship but the both of us hoping for some kind of shift to make things better,” says Sheree. “The unknown can be a scary place, especially when you’re not sure where things are headed. Writing this song helped make sense of that feeling and became a way for us to process what once was familiar and what we needed to change to move forward.”
The second chapter in the Back Burner story, “Something’s Gotta Give” captures the emotional crossroads that defined Sheree and Jeremy Eisenhauer’s recent years – a period where music itself became the bridge back to one another. The album chronicles the couple’s near-separation and their ultimate choice to recommit to both their marriage and their craft.
Recorded at Vancouver’s iconic The Warehouse Studio with producer Steve Dawson (who also contributes mandolin, electric, and slide guitar), Back Burner features an all-star lineup including drummer Leon Power (City and Colour, Frazey Ford), bassist Jeremy Holmes, and keyboardist Jen Gunderman (Sheryl Crow). The sessions captured a live-off-the-floor energy, with musicians often playing each song only once before recording, resulting in a raw, immediate sound that complements the album’s emotional weight.
“Something’s Gotta Give” is available now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and other digital retailers and streaming services worldwide. For more information, please visit theeisenhauers.com.
MORGAN MYLES
“Weight of Your Words”
• After turning heartbreak into a viral 30-day healing journey that captured millions online, acclaimed vocalist and songwriter Morgan Myles channels her resilience into the empowering “Weight of Your Words.”
• “This song is for when you are DONE! These are the words that your toxic ex will say to you to apologize and manipulate you into staying. This was my release when I finally said enough is enough. I don’t care what you say anymore.” — Morgan Myles
• Co-written with Andrew Rollins and Gary Nichols, the track delivers an unflinching look at the emotional toll of being caught in a tumultuous relationship. The song’s raw honesty channels the fiery grit of Miranda Lambert’s “Gunpowder & Lead” with the swagger and edge of Elle King’s “Ex’s & Oh’s.”
Black Sands is the musical project of LA-based songwriter and producer Andrew Balfour, a veteran creative whose work exists in contrast — a collision of cinematic beauty and emotional honesty, of darkness and light. For the past five years, Black Sands built a reputation on immersive, genre-bending soundscapes that drew comparisons to alt-pop auteurs like The Weeknd, The 1975, and Post Malone. But with his newest work, Balfour turns the volume down — and the vulnerability up.
The new chapter of Black Sands trades experimental synth pop maximalism for stripped-back songwriting rooted in Americana, pop-country, and acoustic storytelling. It’s not a reinvention. It’s a homecoming.
Born out of immense personal loss — the deaths of both his sister and brother, each tied to addiction — this new era is more grounded, more centered. The music was written on a guitar in quiet moments, after the noise had settled. It explores the emotional tension between grief and growth, memory and momentum, love and regret. But it also makes space for joy, summer nostalgia, and the strange optimism that lingers even in broken places.
“Making Memories,” the first single of the new era, is a radiant, feel-good anthem — a love letter to carefree nights, shared glances, drinks that blur into laughter, and the kind of moments you wish you could live in forever. It’s cinematic, sun-soaked, and tender. Other forthcoming tracks explore different shades of emotional duality: the reckless charm of “Rock Me”, where Bacardi-fueled escapism masks loneliness; and “Our First Night”, a modern love story wrapped in timeless warmth and quiet wonder.
While the new sound leans into the textures of country-pop and folk, Black Sands remains unmistakably modern — cinematic in spirit, emotionally layered, and lyrically intimate. Think guitar-forward storytelling filtered through the lens of someone who’s lived through contrast: former touring guitarist, global creative leader, brother, and wanderer.
With over 4 million streams, press in outlets like Wonderland, Rolling Stone India, and Atwood Magazine, sync placements with JetBlue, UFC, and the London Olympics, and recent nominations at the Hollywood Independent Music Awards and 2nd Place in the Unsigned Only Songwriting Awards, Black Sands is no stranger to acclaim. But this chapter is different. It’s quieter. Truer. More human.
“I used to build sonic worlds to better understand or outrun my pain,” says Balfour. “Now I’m building something to live in — something that feels like home.”
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