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Troy Cartwright has a knack for writing songs that feel easy and unforced, and his new single “Thinkin’ Bout You” is a great example. The track doesn’t go after any huge, dramatic moments or tidy endings. Instead, it just captures that real, familiar feeling of someone slowly finding their way into your everyday thoughts. Today’s […]

There’s something quietly devastating about the way Natalie Del Carmen approaches heartbreak. She doesn’t oversell it or dramatize it for effect. Instead, she lets the emotion sit where it naturally belongs: in the spaces between longing and resignation, freedom and grief, memory and acceptance. On her newest release, a reimagined version of The Shins’ “Gone […]

Some songs ask us to look inward. Others invite them to look up. On her latest single, “We Could Be Stardust,” JES does both. The Grammy-nominated artist continues unveiling the world of her forthcoming album Dreamer with a track that shifts the focus away from everyday anxieties and toward something infinitely larger. Equal parts philosophical […]

Denver’s bass music trio delivers a sophomore that refuses to be caged If you’ve been sleeping on Denver’s bass music scene, Hostage Situation‘s sophomore album ‘Hostile Frequencies’ is your wake-up call. The trio, who literally built their brand around “taking crowds hostage,” have crafted a 20-track opus that’s as ambitious as it is aggressive, proving […]

With the holiday season in full fa-la-la-la-flow, it’s time to reflect. When the year winds down, we feel a bit of burn out — you stare blankly at screens without motivation, you don’t want to work, and you’ve just spent all your money on gift giving. The year ends in two weeks, which means all […]

Noah Kahan has reinvented autumn – it’s a Vermont state of mind and no one is mad about it. Welcome to Stick Season. Stick Season: Commonly known as that time in New England when the leaves have fallen and it’s face-numbingly cold, yet the snow is yet to fall. It’s a quiet, scary, beautiful standstill […]

Image courtesy of Drew Perez, Instagram: @d.r.e.w.b.y On August 8th and 9th, Glass Animals took over Brooklyn Mirage and Popdust had the chance to catch it for you. So, we all know “Heat Waves” right? Released in June of 2020, Glass Animals released the song-of-the-summer that we had no idea would never end. Flash forward […]

We spoke to Remi Wolf at Spotify’s Lorem & Friends event in Los Angeles. TL;DR: Remi really is the coolest in the game and if you’re not listening to Lorem, you should be.

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Japanese Breakfast’s third album, Jubilee, breaks open with a bang. The first song, “Paprika,” is one of the artist’s biggest, brightest songs. It rolls in with a giant crescendo about 30 seconds in, and from there it rides on a buoyant, trumpet-laden beat that marks a stark contrast to the more meditative qualities of the […]