Gunaikurnai/Gippsland based duo, Ally Row, continue their rise as one of the most talked about & exciting new acts within the Australian music landscape via their brand new single, “Adeline”.
While taking a conscious new musical step alongside producer, Jason Resch (Kylie Minogue/ Pet Shop Boys/ Darlinghurst), “Adeline”keeps all the things you love about Ally Row front and centre. There’s that signature warmth, dreamy banjo, sweet yet strong vocals and honest catchy lyrics.
As Ally Row’s Rowan Sizer explains, “the song is an ode to the lovesick and the ones that got away. It’s a catchy, energetic celebration of loneliness while feeling untethered and missing someone so much that it feels like you’ll never recover.”
“When a relationship ends, most of us wonder what we could have done better. Some of us stay lovesick and broken hearted and it feels like your whole world is caving in”.
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The Bernadette Maries are a band from Brussels, established in 2024, with members Daria, Guy & Romain. Their sound merges post-punk energy, shoegaze's dreamy textures, and indie rock hooks. TBM's music is about love and existentialism, melancholy & meaning of our lives in a world that is slowly falling apart. It is inspired not only by music, but society, books, and movies as well.
Their very first song, "Dream Place", was released in September 2024, quickly followed by "Nouvelle Vague" and "We Know Everything". "LvvV", the band's debut EP, was launched on February 14, 2025. On December 3rd, 2025, they released their first music video for "The Closer You Look", with a second music video for "ESO" set to be released on April 29th.
Continuing to evolve, The Bernadette Maries shape their musical journey with each release and performance. In only a year of existence, TBM already toured in Belgium (where they played 4 times the legendary venue Botanique), France & The Netherlands, and had the chance to share the stage with bands such as Bodega, Ditz, English Teacher, The Ex, Gurriers, Maquina, New Dad, Humour,..
Today their first album, is released (September 18th 2026) on Géographie Records. The record includes the singles "the closer you look", "ESO" and "Missing Bernadette".
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Today the new single and music video “Memorize You" from New York based Some Days Are Darker has been shared. The trio draws from the shadowy grandeur of goth, the hypnotic pulse of synth-driven alternative rock, and the intimacy of noir cinema. "Memorize You" is a a dark, feverish rush where desperation and desire become increasingly difficult to separate. Driven by a restless pulse, and enveloped in a darkened atmosphere, the song builds from intimate confession into something increasingly expansive and overwhelming.
In the twilight between romance and ruin, New York’s Some Days Are Darker makes music for the space where longing becomes obsession, intimacy becomes isolation, and beauty begins to reveal its teeth.
What began as the solitary songwriting project of former metalcore guitarist Lear Mason has evolved into a three-piece built around the chemistry of Mason, bassist/guitarist/keyboardist Chris Martin, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist/producer Robbie Williamson — three musicians with decades of experience who share a fascination with the darker corners of human experience.
Some Days Are Darker draws from the shadowy grandeur of goth, the hypnotic pulse of synth-driven alternative rock, and the intimacy of noir cinema, but defies easy categorization. Their songs move fluidly between towering walls of sound and moments of startling vulnerability, creating a world that feels at once cinematic and intensely personal. The result is music that doesn’t simply tell stories of love, loss, lust, and rebirth—it puts the listener inside them.
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Independent Brighton artist Cello today releases the new single “Forever” via Barracuda Recordings. Cello returns with her new single, “Forever”, taken from her forthcoming debut album ‘Kung Fu Disco’. Described by Cello as neon-tinged teenage heartbreak, the song finds her contemplating time, life and death, as well as love’s transcendence of it all. “Watching all the seconds as the time just slips away,” she sings over a track that evokes groundbreaking 80s indie-pop stars such as Blondie, The Motels, Wire and early Eurythmics.
Cello is a very focused and determined artist who is keen to be involved in the whole creative process. The music video that accompanies the track was filmed, directed and edited by Cello, who created a dreamlike layered video confronting different reflections of the self and the feelings surrounding them. “You want the moment to last forever whilst looking for the exit,” she explains, “Ripe with bittersweet promise.”
“Forever” marks Cello’s fourth single, following the disco-laden “Like A Tiger”, the more defiant “We Do What We Want (When We Want When We Want To)”, and debut track “Vitamins”. Excitingly, two songs from the forthcoming album have already been picked up for the soundtrack of a major American film release.
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Today Katie Cruel returns with a spellbinding new interpretation of “Nights In White Satin,” the enduring classic by The Moody Blues and the latest release from her ongoing Cruel Covers project. Following her haunting take on The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Disarm,” Katie Cruel — the musical project of Canadian singer-songwriter Kate Boothman — once again steps inside a song that has followed her through her life, reshaping it through her own dreamy, cinematic lens.
“‘Nights In White Satin’ has been rattling around my solo couch sessions for years,” Katie says. “The lyrics have always resonated and it’s easy to play. When I decided to make a cover record, this one was at the top of my list.” The connection runs deep: The Moody Blues’ landmark Days of Future Passed has long been one of Katie’s “desert island records,” making the song an instinctive choice when she began exploring the music that had shaped her. “It came easy and fast,” she says of recording her version. “This version is a little bit Sherwood Forest and a little bit Serge Gainsbourg. We had fun with it.”
Cruel Covers grew out of a period of creative reflection following the release of Katie Cruel’s acclaimed debut album, Lost Vagus. After years spent writing and recording her own material, Katie found herself searching for inspiration without wanting to force another batch of original songs into existence. Instead, she turned toward the records and artists that had moved her over the years, asking what might happen if she inhabited someone else’s story for a while. With “Nights In White Satin,” that approach transforms a familiar classic into something distinctly Katie Cruel: atmospheric, mysterious and a little strange, while preserving the aching romanticism that made her fall in love with the song in the first place.
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Clare Perrott celebrates the strange beauty of life with an ode to her friendships in her new coming-of-age indie-folk number, ‘How Can I Tell You?’, out September 18. Filled with her luminous vocals, Perrott transforms life’s little moments and unsaid feelings into a heartfelt ballad. As she navigates growing pains and the awkwardness of unsaid feelings, the track becomes an expression of gratitude for her friends and the strange privilege of being alive.
With just two singles behind her, the Boorloo-based artist’s unique take on indie-folk has already earned her support from Rolling Stone AU/NZ, Triple J, Triple J Unearthed Spotlight feature, Spotify, Apple Music and more. Perrott’s approach to folk has seen her take stages across Australia this year, playing the Woodford Folk Festival, the National Folk Festival, winning the Emerging Artist award at Nannup Music Festival and supporting Lloyd and the Leftovers on their East Coast Tour.
Packed with airy vocal flips and cosy folk feels, ‘How Can I Tell You?’ is a raw and sincere ballad soaked in twangy guitar and warm, understated crooning. Playful vocal harmonies weave around expressive slide guitar, gradually building into a rich slice of Americana folk-rock grounded in plainspoken truths and open emotion.
At its core, ‘How Can I Tell You?’ is about appreciating friendship and loving life while still overthinking, over analysing and coming to terms with growing up. Perrott captures the awkwardness of holding back feelings, biting your tongue, and finding the vulnerability to really express your emotions. As Clare Perrott shares: “‘How Can I Tell You?' is about honest communication and appreciating all the love and light I have in my life. Sometimes it's easy to take love in any form for granted, and you gotta bridge that gap and get over yourself. Tell them how you feel! Feelings are everything, and even though they are ours, they deserve to be shared.”
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