The Bernadette Maries, poised on the edge between dream and reality, drift into disembodied spaces to capture fleeting images. Released today “ESO,” a nested track, unfolds in several sequences, like successive snapshots of a dream. From a nugaze texture, it lifts off into an intoxicating liquid drum’n’bass. Like Julie or TAGABOW, the band is part of a generation of musicians creating a post-digital rock, digesting their idols to better uncover the present.
The Bernadette Maries are constantly on the edge between dream and reality, escaping into disembodied spaces to capture distorted images and give them meaning. The music video for “ESO,” the second single from their debut album Soft, is proof of this, multiplying scenes drenched in artificial light, from the neon glow of a warehouse to flashlights aimed into the night. Following the duality of the track, which takes off from a nugaze texture filled with heavy guitars into a liquid drum’n’bass, the visuals move from a direct, front-facing view of the band and gradually dissolve into a more abstract, vaporous substance, attempting to convey its nocturnal poetry.
The Bernadette Maries is 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.
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Building on the momentum of recent releases Canadian singer-songwriter Ellie Heath shares “Sick of Myself,” a bold and emotionally charged new single from her upcoming album Pushing Forty, set for release on May 29th, 2026. Blending introspective songwriting with an explosive, danceable chorus, “Sick of Myself” captures a deeply personal turning point. The track explores the shift from independence toward partnership, reflecting on the moment when life stops being solely self-focused and begins to open outward toward connection, care and shared purpose.
“This song was inspired by a moment of transition in my life. After many years of being single and living alone, I found myself moving into a stable relationship and building a shared life with my partner,” Ellie explains. “It made me reflect on how much of my early adulthood was centered on independence and self-reliance. As I get older, I’m feeling a strong pull toward community, partnership, and caring for others. ‘Sick of Myself’ captures that shift; from being the main character in my own story to wanting to invest my energy in love, connection, and building something meaningful with someone else.”
What begins as a self-reflective realization unfolds into something more expansive. A desire to move beyond isolation and into something meaningful with another person, it’s a sentiment that feels both deeply personal and widely relatable.
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Levi Taschuk is a 28 year old singer-songwriter currently based in the small town of Salmon Arm in Canada. His songwriting practice developed a little later in life, beginning in his early twenties, but he’s been a life-long and obsessive listener which has helped him make up for the lost time .
His influences range from Bach to Brahms; Chet Baker to Stevie Wonder; Nick Drake to Sibylle Baier; Coldplay to Radiohead and too many others to name. In 2024 he had the opportunity to spend a week in New York, recording a three-track EP with producers Miles Hewitt and Karl Helander, a project for which he managed to recruit violinist Jake Falby (Julie Byrne, Mutual Benefit).
Taschuk then began work on his forthcoming, debut LP, Dyna Dyvest, in May 2024 with co-producer/performer Connor Mead, finishing the recording process about a year-and-a-half later. He also recorded two songs on the upcoming album with co-producer/performer Evan Cheadle.
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The Veils have shared a music video for their newest single “Aurora”. “Aurora” is an introspective, deceivingly stripped-back track with stunning depth. Driven by an unwavering piano and haunting layered vocals from Finn Andrews, who explains “This song was written as it was being recorded, which is a very rare thing for me. The day we made it, there was a huge geomagnetic storm over parts of New Zealand, and the pictures of the aurora that followed were in all the papers. Sometimes things are so beautifully simple.”
Arriving just over a year after their critically acclaimed ‘Asphodels’, ‘Fragile World’ marks a striking shift in tone and energy for the band. Recorded live to tape in New Zealand by Paddy Hill, with production by Tom Healy (Folk Bitch Trio, Tiny Ruins, The Chills), ‘Fragile World’ captures The Veils in an urgent and instinctive mode.
The Veils' Finn Andrews shared on the album: “I make each album, generally, as a kind of atonement for the last. Asphodels was so quiet and introspective, I think I just wanted to make something strident and full of life for a goddamn change.” The album’s title is both a reflection of the present moment - a time in which many institutions appear to be crumbling before our eyes - and a metaphor for the act of creation itself. The process of making music, Andrews notes, is a delicate and fragile undertaking where thousands of small decisions gradually coalesce into a finished whole.
“We went into the studio with a lot of songs, but very little idea of the arrangements or instrumentation. It was truly exciting having no idea what this record would sound like and only a few weeks to figure it out. It’s mostly Tom and I playing everything, with Joseph McCallum coming in at times. It was all very instinctual, quite full-on, and scary at times - but a good kind of scary, not scary like the real world out there.”
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We need to grow mentally as we age; no excuses. Learn more about ourselves, our world – micro to macro - and our universe. Without enough knowledge and understanding we can be easily manipulated or deceived, and it's easy to blame others and live within misdirected anger. It’s best to find a way forward together as well-informed and intelligent individuals. Whether we do or not only time will tell.
Located in Ottawa, Canada, JunkHeap’s Dave Turnbull is a solo singer/songwriter/producer, who has been writing music since his teens. Feels like eons ago to him. First on guitar and then he started to learn drums. He played in bands as a drummer but kept writing with the guitar.
His dad played jazz piano, which no doubt built his ear for melodies in the early years. As he grew into his teens musical tastes broadened into the rock sounds over the decades, New wave synth 80s music, and a bit of punk. JunkHeap aligns more with the sounds of Stone Temple Pilots, XTC, Talking Heads, Bush, Blue Oyster Cult, David Bowie, Robbie Robertson among others. Influences include Genesis, The Beatles, Harlequin, Styx, The Jam, The Police, Led Zep, Supertramp, April Wine, Pearl Jam, among others, and also various jazz and classical sounds. The JunkHeap sound falls within the pop-alternative rock genre.
Back to the story! As the decades went by and technology improved JunkHeap was formed. It happened because after having played in several bands the next logical step was to play solo, but JunkHeap became more than a guy with a guitar. Technology allowed for Dave to build entire songs and be the entire band. “It was a good feeling, finally being in full control of the music creation process” he said one time. With each successive album his sound develops and matures, including the production quality. Dave is working with a band to play some of the JunkHeap tunes live in the near future, though no dates have been set yet.
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Hunter Morris / Mountain of Youth will release the debut album, Nowhere, NW, on May 15, 2026 via Strolling Bones Records. The 10-track set was produced by the multi-instrumentalist Ben Hackett (Patterson Hood, Craig Finn) and recorded at Chase Park Transduction in Athens, GA. The remarkable debut emerges as a sort of equilibrium state, balancing Morris’s breezy heartland and lo-fi garage influences with his ‘70s singer/songwriter and ‘90s grunge sensibilities.
The songs are mature and reflective, reckoning with loneliness, regret, and mortality, and the performances are raw and vulnerable to match, with lean, muscular arrangements. It’s an honest, empathetic meditation on purpose and impermanence delivered by a keen observer of the human condition, one who’s only just begun to truly understand himself. “When I started writing these songs as Mountain of Youth, it felt like I’d finally found my voice,” Morris reflects. “For the first time, I felt comfortable saying what I needed to say.”
Today the album standout song “Everything Falls Apart” has been shared. Morris says, "Quite often, the people who have constructed a picture book life are actually living a lie and are very unhappy in that life. I just liked using the imagery of a house that someone has constructed to show how perfect their life is and then the house eventually comes crashing down."
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