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Colombian-Dominican singer-songwriter NEZZA is turning rejection into a celebration with “1-800-NO,” a high-energy Spanglish pop anthem out now alongside its official music video. Blending bold vocals, infectious production, and an addictive hook, the track puts a playful spin on knowing when to walk away and leave the wrong relationship behind.
With its bilingual flair and feel-good attitude, “1-800-NO” turns saying “no” into a moment of self-assurance — a soundtrack for cutting ties, reclaiming your energy, and moving on without looking back.
The accompanying music video brings the song’s larger-than-life personality to the screen, leaning into its playful premise and tongue-in-cheek take on heartbreak. From the first beat to the final goodbye, NEZZA makes one thing clear: he’s not your problem anymore.
Following the acclaimed release of Wanderlust, the collaborative album from Donna Lewis and David Lowe, the journey continues with an exhilarating new remix of the album’s opening single, “Burning Man,” courtesy of internationally acclaimed Welsh electronic artist Bright Light Bright Light (Rod Thomas).
Originally released as the first chapter of Wanderlust, “Burning Man” introduced listeners to an emotional journey of curiosity, exploration, and self-discovery. Built around hypnotic synths, cinematic textures, and Donna Lewis’ unmistakably ethereal vocals, the song quickly became a fan favorite, earning placement on Spotify’s New Dance Pop editorial playlist and establishing the sonic world of the album.
Now, Bright Light Bright Light transforms the track into a euphoric slice of shimmering dance-pop. The collaboration also marks a reunion between two Welsh artists whose musical paths have crossed in recent years. Donna previously joined Bright Light Bright Light on a special Welsh-language version of his song “Enjoy Youth,” celebrating their shared heritage and long-standing friendship.
Rod Thomas explains:
“Donna Lewis is one of my all-time favourites. I remember buying ‘I Love You Always Forever’ and ‘Without Love’ CD singles in Neath, my home town, and having her gorgeous, ethereal voice fill my stereo as a child. We’ve become friends and she’s loaned her amazing vocals to my song ‘Enjoy Youth’ for a Welsh version celebrating both of our Welsh roots, so it is a joy to be asked to remix a song of hers.
Of all the songs on the album, I chose ‘Burning Man’ because of its hypnotic writing structure, and the lyrics are just lovely. I think ‘Are you a dreamer or a doer?’ made me think of my youth, when people would tell you to get your head out of the clouds and find a real job. But both Donna and I make music for a living, so it’s quite magical that we are both dreamers and doers.”
Bright Light Bright Light’s reimagining of “Burning Man”opens an exciting new chapter for the project, proving that great songs continue to evolve long after they are first written.
Southern California band seeTrees returns with their latest single “All These Things,” a warm, reflective ode to finding love and fulfillment beyond material possessions. Rooted in the belief that life’s richest moments often come once you let go of the endless pursuit of more, their new track puts a spotlight on love, presence, and contentment. “All These Things” is available now on all major streaming platforms.
Produced by Luke Adams (Jacob Dylan, Pete Yorn), “All These Things” is a mellow, guitar-driven, folk-rock track with a comforting, throwback feel that captures the quiet joy of choosing presence over pursuit. The opening line, “Lovers fading away from it all / back to simple times,” features calm, indie vocals easing into a laid-back groove that feels both timeless and peaceful. Inspired by the easygoing spirit of legends like Neil Young, Wilco, and George Harrison, the song pairs breezy, Americana textures with heartfelt storytelling, inviting listeners to slow down and savour what truly matters. “‘All These Things’ is a love song longing for less,” songwriter and frontman Drew Lawrence explains. “It’s a pondering of a life that disengages from chasing materialism and embraces the peace that comes from just being present with the ones you love.” As the arrangement gently unfolds, Lawrence reflects on a relationship untouched by worldly expectations, realizing that a relationship flourishes independent of belongings and may even deepen in their absence. Lyrics such as “One bed apartment / Room for no one / Memories reborn / A love that was never torn,” and the meditative refrain, “We could be all these things / Nothing and everything,” capture the beauty of building a meaningful life through companionship rather than accumulation. By the song’s conclusion, you arrive at a place of quiet liberation, releasing the pressure to constantly strive, embracing the serenity found in simply being present. Mastered by Josh Goode, the recording was elevated by guitar work from Jason Abraham Roberts (Spoon, Norah Jones), bass by Aaron Michael Stern (Gary Clark Jr., Curtis Harding, Laura Jean Anderson), and drums from producer Luke Adams.
Latin GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter DANNA enters a new dimension of her artistic universe with the release of WET DREAMS, the second chapter of her ambitious VISIONS project. A seven-track EP rooted in sensuality, desire, feminine empowerment and self-expression, WET DREAMS invites listeners to reconnect with their bodies, embrace their desires and let go of inhibition.
Toronto-based R&B duo Majid Jordan have released their long-awaited new album Two Roads via OVO Sound – listen to the album HERE.
Featuring singles “Cold” and “See You Again,” Two Roads marks a new chapter for Majid Jordan, expanding the duo’s signature atmospheric R&B into a sound that feels both intimate and expansive. Across the album, warm lo-fi textures meet electronic production, rich instrumentation, and pop-forward melodies, creating a world that feels nostalgic while continuing to push their artistry into new territory.
The album’s focus track, “Strangers,” is a laid-back blend of bedroom and soul pop that captures the intimate, melodic feel of the project. “Best Behaviour”, featuring singer-songwriter Clementine Douglas, takes a more experimental approach, pairing 90’s inspired synths with subtle jazz influences, while “Two Roads,” the album’s title track, strips things back to a soft ballad that puts the duo’s vocals to the forefront. “Island Time,” featuring longtime collaborator and fellow OVO artist Naomi Sharon, brings a more upbeat instrumental, while “Look What You’ve Done” and “Things Just Feel Better” are more pop-forward. The range of energies gives the album a dynamic feel while maintaining consistency throughout, bringing variety while keeping the album’s overall flow intact.
After 15 years of creating together, Two Roads speaks to the duo’s individual growth and the shared journey that has defined their partnership. The title reflects two distinct perspectives moving alongside one another: two inner worlds, emotional lenses, and creative instincts that come together through a common vision. While their paths are their own, they continue to cross and complement each other, creating a sound that is shaped by both of their voices. The album captures that ongoing evolution, exploring new directions while staying rooted in the musical foundation Majid Jordan have built throughout their career.
Reflecting on the project, Majid Jordan shares, “Two Roads is the album we’ve wanted to create our entire careers; it’s something incredibly dear to our hearts. Throughout writing and recording Two Roads, we continually reminded ourselves to stay focused, listen closely, and, most of all, respect the gift of music—the most consistent source of inspiration throughout our lives.”
UNTER STRØM is an electronic musical duo forged in the shadows of Los Angeles and San Diego, blending raw industrial grit with melodic finesse. Led by Alex Gonzales (Matte Blvck) and John Kunkel (The New Division, John Grand), the project is a collision of two prolific creative forces & longtime collaborators whose roots run deep in the darker corners of electronic and alternative music. Gonzales has been on a sharp upward trajectory with Matte Blvck, building a global fanbase through relentless touring and a string of sold-out shows across the United States, while Kunkel’s work as John Grand has earned support from tastemakers like Armin van Buuren on A State of Trance and a guest mix on Group Therapy Radio. Together, they meet at the intersection of underground intensity and melodic dark electronic refinement.
Emerging from years of working together in various bands and studios, UNTER STRØM was born from a shared obsession: pushing the boundaries of techno, melodic house, and industrial sonics into uncharted territory. The result is a cinematic, visceral sound that moves between brooding intensity and euphoric release, equal parts warehouse and widescreen.
The fourth and final piece of Between Forms the single “Stumbling” finds Unter Strøm at their most atmospheric and emotionally exposed. It moves through shifting arpeggios, submerged textures and evolving rhythms with an almost weightless quality — serene in one moment, intense in the next.
There is a sense of landscape running through the track. Open air. Forests. Rain moving across something distant. The feeling of wandering without necessarily wanting to be found.
Yet beneath all of that movement, “Stumbling” never completely leaves the dance floor.
That tension has become increasingly important to Unter Strøm. From the beginning, Alex Gonzales and John Kunkel have been interested in electronic music that can exist in several places at once: physical enough for a club, detailed enough for headphones, and expansive enough to eventually be reinterpreted live.
“Stumbling” appeared unexpectedly during an afternoon that had not really been intended as a writing session. A new project was opened almost casually, an arpeggio emerged, then a rhythm, and within only a few hours most of the record had taken shape.
For months afterward, Gonzales and Kunkel assumed they would eventually return to it.
They barely did.
As their catalog continued to grow, the original session somehow remained intact. What initially felt unfinished began to feel complete precisely because it had never been overworked.
Aaron Short returned to mix the track, continuing a relationship that has allowed Unter Strøm to push deeper into the details of their productions without losing their character. On “Stumbling,” some of those details seem to exist only momentarily — sounds emerging from beneath the surface before disappearing again.
The result is one of the more unusual records in the duo’s early catalog.
It carries echoes of the melodic electronic music that first made both artists fall in love with expansive dance records, but it never settles comfortably into nostalgia or genre. Instead, it points somewhere else.
That is also why “Stumbling” was chosen to close Between Forms.
Across “Orynth,” “Fold,” “Fragment” and “Stumbling,” Unter Strøm were never trying to establish a formula. The four records were selected because they reveal different ends of the same project: tension and release, darkness and openness, rhythm and atmosphere.
With a rapidly expanding body of unreleased music behind them, Between Forms is less a definition of Unter Strøm than the first glimpse of its boundaries.
And “Stumbling” may be the moment those boundaries begin to disappear.
Country collective First Time Flyers are back with their second studio album ‘Coming Home’ and biggest headline tour to date, both scheduled for April 2027. With this news comes the release of the heartfelt title track, out now.
Following an extraordinary year that saw their debut album ‘Bound To Break’ reach No. 1 on the Official UK Country Chart and a run of sold-out shows across the UK, this marks the next chapter for a band on a genuine hot streak.
Written after an unforgettable period of touring, title track ‘Coming Home’ is the first release off the album — an upbeat tune reflecting on the emotional journey of leaving home, chasing dreams and discovering that the places and people who shaped you are never far from your heart.
Between the bright lights, backstage moments and thousands of motorway miles, Tim Prottey-Jones, Poppy Fardell, Jake Morrell and Vicki Manser found themselves returning home with more than memories. They came back with new perspectives, fresh inspiration and a shared appreciation for where life had brought them.
The song was born during a writing session where the band found themselves talking about how much their lives had changed.
Jake reflected on never imagining he’d one day return to live in Norfolk, while Poppy spoke about feeling increasingly drawn back to her Devon roots. Those conversations became the foundation of ‘Coming Home’. Built around the lyric: “I had to leave to learn, to roam, but happy’s in these bones,” it celebrates growing up without growing apart. It’s about collecting stories, making mistakes, discovering yourself and eventually finding your way back to the people and places that have always felt like home.
Overflowing with the band’s trademark harmonies, infectious energy and heartfelt songwriting, the single perfectly captures the feeling of driving familiar roads with the windows down, knowing your favourite people are waiting at the end of the journey. It’s a reminder that home isn’t simply a place — it’s a feeling.
The release has been intentionally scheduled for 28 August 2026, the opening weekend of The Long Road Festival — an event that has become a true “home away from home” for the band. Having performed at the festival for four consecutive years, First Time Flyers return once again in 2026 to perform on the Main Stage, making the release of ‘Coming Home’ especially fitting.
Dance music powerhouse GRYFFIN today unveils the official remix pack for ‘Without You,’ his hit collaboration with rising producer AVELLO and singer-songwriter Sasha Alex Sloan, out now via 10K Projects.
Building on the emotional pull and melodic foundation of ‘Without You,’ the remix package brings together ten producers from across the electronic spectrum, each putting their own stamp on the collaboration. Dave Summer channels his tech house grooves into a club-focused rework, while TELYKAST leans into the euphoric progressive side of their dance-pop sound. Dutch artist TOO BIASED, minimal dubstep DJ Phrva, and Denver-based PapaJay take the track into darker territory with bass-heavy approaches. Canadian producer Fairlane taps into his hard-hitting melodic bass sound, while fast-rising trap-pop maker St. Mary adds a more experimental touch. Up-and-comers Heads or Tails, future bass act Tarrow, and Philadelphia’s RYN round out the collection with high-energy, festival-ready interpretations. Together, the remixes stretch ‘Without You’ from its emotive core across the dance music spectrum, and join the recently released GorillaT remix.
BROOKE LEE
“Mess of It”
• Brooke Lee’s latest single, “Mess of It,” is about the moment you wake up and realize the relationship you’ve been fighting so hard to save has slowly become what’s breaking you.
• “‘Mess of It’ came from a relationship where I gave everything I had because I wanted it to work. My time, my energy, my heart — I really tried. To me, it’s about the moment you realize the relationship you’ve been fighting to save has cost you pieces of yourself, and finding the strength to walk away even though it’s the last thing you wanted to do.” — Brooke Lee
• Brooke will be opening for country-pop artist Atlus at four of his upcoming shows next month. Get tickets HERE.
WYATT LOWE
“Stay”
• Alongside the announcement of his album, Deserts, Wyatt Lowe releases “Stay,” a nostalgic Americana rock track about endless summers.
• “‘Stay’ was probably one of the most fun songs to record. I wanted to capture that endless summer, nostalgic Americana country rock feeling. Honestly, my goal for the whole song was for it to feel like ear candy to the listener. It’s not trying to be anything other than what it is — a true, gritty, fun kind of endless summer Americana country rock song.” – Wyatt Lowe
• Produced by Ted Hutt (Dropkick Murphys) and mixed by Ross Hogarth (Miley Cyrus), the single is released alongside an official video and a live performance video following the weeks later.
AUSTIN SNELL
“If I Were The Devil”
• After the release of his Colors EP, which touched on themes of mental health, Austin Snell is back to tackle yet another hard-hitting issue facing our country right now with his latest release, “If I Were The Devil.”
• Looking both backwards at media broadcasts from the 1960s and presently at our current state of social and political division, the song proposes the raw truth that if “the devil” were in charge, he wouldn’t change a thing. Austin initially debuted this song live during CMA Fest and has since continued to tease it on socials for excited fans.
• Austin recently announced his Colors tour, making 12 stops nationwide throughout October and November. Get tickets HERE.
Love Like Enemies has released their new single, “The Wasp & The Spider,” the lead track off their upcoming Dead Garden EP. Featuring David Escamilla of Stray View, the song unpacks the story of an artist lured into a toxic music business relationship, only to break free and reclaim their independence. “The Wasp & The Spider” Ft. David Escamilla is now available to stream and download on all platforms.
“The Wasp & The Spider” opens with an artist entering the industry full of hope, only to find themselves enamored by an influential figure whose praise and mentorship slowly trap the narrator. Vivid spider-themed imagery drives this narrative, framing the manipulative mentor as a spider whose web looks like opportunity but is actually a trap, while the wasp’s sting represents the damage that lingers long after the toxic relationship ends. The recurring imagery of silk, webs, and strings reflects how manipulation can be subtle and even appear nurturing at first. The chorus turns defiant, with the narrator declaring, “I don’t care what you’ve been saying / You can run your mouth about me,” refusing to let a more powerful figure control them anymore. That defiance builds into the track’s rallying cry, “Cut these strings,” a direct rejection of the control the narrator endured. “This song is about being the constant in a world that never stops changing,” says the band. “It’s the story of the underdog—the ones who have been dragged through the dirt, knocked down, and left face-first in the dust.” Despite everything, pursuing music itself still matters. The failure wasn’t in believing in the dream; it was in trusting the wrong person. Escamilla’s guest vocals add another layer of emotion to the narrative, trading off with Jovan Ferrante’s screams and melodic runs to emphasize the song’s central message: that success built on independence outweighs success bought at the cost of one’s identity. Dual vocalist, screamer, and guitarist Kalup Gallegos’s guitar work shifts between restrained tension and explosive release, while drummer Nathan Love and bassist Javi Sepulveda lock in a rhythm that gives the song its relentless forward pull. The track was written and recorded by Gallegos and mixed and mastered by Bill Pogan at Pog Audio.
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