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Penelope Road is back with an EP full of heart and pocket. The Atlanta feel-good band has reached a sense of virality with their videos performing in their bedrooms. It’s no surprise that they will be opening for Atlanta soul phenom Teddy Swims on December 11th. The dedication and process to this work yields inevitable successes. It’s an antithesis to their work’s title, Chance Encounter . Inside are four songs diligently devoted to the longing of love that hasn’t happened ye

Time is a funny thing. Maggie Schneider and Alex Downtain watered the musical seeds planted before the pandemic into a strong tree. They occasionally picked the fruit over time, knowing what the Atlanta pop rock duo had to offer. Over the last couple of years, it seems the tree was left to bear the fruit of every facet of their talents. The Art Of Shattering  is a culmination of that photosynthetic growth packed into an undeniable first LP.  Maggie Schneider shot by Hanna Mid

Atlanta rap-rocker outfit Silly Goose isn’t asking for much. They only want the heavyweight title with their LP Keys to the City. The irreverent riff and rhyme masters check in with an intensity that I haven’t seen since Don Broco played Warped in 2018. With the dynamic vocal pushes from frontman Jackson Heaton, it’s a well-rounded compilation of what this band is capable of. 

Be warned, the spit coming off of the songs on I’m Nice Now is liable to hit you through the mesh of whatever sound system you happen to be listening on. Fervent as ever, Upchuck’s latest, caustically named effort is another dose of well-deserved fury from Atlanta’s favorite punk band.  Track one, “Tired,” opens the can of worms on what the record is about: how the world seems to be falling apart at the hands of oppression and inequality everywhere you look, the relentlessnes

“THERE'S A BOMB IN MY CAR." Had these words been uttered by anyone other than Cameron Winter, there would likely be room for alarm, but the Geese frontman is well known for screeching deafening lyrics like these. In Getting Killed, Geese delivers absurdly enchanting lyrics and bombastic instrumentation with sincerity. It is a record measured in its zaniness and uncompromising in its need to be genuine and singular.

Force , the debut EP from Melissa Chilson aka Melissuh, is a prism carefully etched and inscribed with somber poems we’re invited to trace with our fingers as we rotate it in our hands. And in a remarkable 17-minute runtime she manages to use it as a refracting device for absolute loss, the borders of identity, and the sense that these things can be transcended. The total effect is something ghostly and innocently hopeful, like a conversation with an inner child.  Because of

Atlanta local staple Jake Chisenhall has been applying his signature around for over a decade now, but their latest offering aims to bring an entire ecosystem of genres together. Be Steel, My Heart is an aptly titled EP full of wonder and nuance. The fluidity of Jake’s melodic narratives provides more than an extended play. It’s an extended world. Those familiar with Chisenhall know that the songwriting takes all kinds of whimsical turns and is filled with vibrant colors fro

Belong , the newest album by Los Angeles’ Jay Som, is an ever-moving body, tinged in nostalgia and decorated with hard edges. It finds the songwriter behind the project, Melina Duterte, turning over concepts like acceptance, rejection, and the ever-elusive search for sureness in one’s identity and work in her hands, folding them in with everything from touching ballads to edgy pop-punk.  This record marks Jay Som’s first record since 2019’s Anak Ko , but Duterte has stayed pl

Nashville-based indie rock outfit, Connor Kelly & the Time Warp released their third studio album, “This Egg,” back in March in a graceful and delicate fashion. What feels like a jam band experience is reconstructed with extremely catchy hooks, and powerful one-liners. It’s full of soul, from the rhythm section to the hickory-smoked vocals of Connor Kelly.  The title track is either an exquisitely expressed retrospective on our own youth, or an extremely depressing song about

This expansion upon the band’s previous work has brought them into a space that is all at once familiar and adventurous. It was quite easy to worry how they would continue to adjust to their view and create greater art, but Wednesday did just that with Bleeds.

Sandwiched in between classic country conventions and hints of something truly special, Flat Tired’s debut album Better Part of the Year weaves loss, emotional growth and no small amount of heartbreak together into a package that occasionally feels like a sun-bleached 8-track tape. In comparison to 2024’s Other States EP, Better Part of the Year sees the band taking a few more risks and fleshing out textures they’ve previously found a decent degree of comfort within. Many

Athens-based indie artist Bea Porges’ new EP, The Cure, The Cause, The Killer , takes a break from the jazzier textures of her 2023 EP space & time , offering instead bittersweet moments of contemplation and reflection mixed up into sweet indie-pop morsels.  The EP prioritizes introspection over elaborate stylization, but that’s not to say the songs are any less well crafted. There’s a distinct breeziness running through the whole thing, carrying the feelings of longing, loss