Cody Carlyle and Travis Jordan have spent three decades refining their musical partnership, and with *A Carnival of Reveries*, they've created something genuinely unsettling and magnificent. Released on the appropriately macabre date of October 31st, 2025, this isn't music for passive listening; it demands attention, lurking in shadows and dragging you through its murky, intoxicating world whether you're prepared or not.

There's a peculiar alchemy that occurs when an artist stops performing for an audience and starts excavating their own psyche with a pickaxe and a prayer. Ezra Vancil's "Babylove" achieves precisely this—a soul-baring excavation that feels less like a professional studio session and more like a séance with one's own ghost.

Six years in the making, Lee Clark Allen's debut LP arrives as both confessional and communion, a 20-track odyssey that wears its heart so boldly on its sleeve you can practically see the bloodstains on the fabric. This Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota Duluth—who doubles as a summer groundskeeper in the city's Rose Garden—has crafted something genuinely affecting here, a record that manages to transform personal turmoil into universal balm.

The blues has always been the music of hard truths, and Blues Corner's latest single "Piggy Bank Blues" arrives like a punch to the solar plexus of complacency. This is not the sanitised, tourist-board version of the blues that clutters so many modern releases, but rather a piece of work that bears its scars with unflinching honesty.

The blues has always been a mongrel music, born from the collision of cultures and the alchemy of displacement. Karim Albert Kook and Édouard Bineau understand this fundamental truth with the intuition of seasoned practitioners, and their collaboration Roots of Blues serves as both archaeological excavation and living testament to the genre's enduring power.

Zircon Skyeband is a collaboration of talented and experienced musicians who formed a band to make music together and continue their friendship. All members of Zircon Skyeband are based in different corners of our planet, but this does not prevent them from creating real musical masterpieces.

Released on June 7, 2024, "Last Man Standing" by Meath duo One Flew Over delivers a potent blend of vintage blues, classic, and modern pop/rock. The single, released under Boltown Records, has garnered attention from Hot Press Magazine and RGM Magazine, with praise for its dark yet powerful debut.

On June 16, a new single by the German musician and producer Carsten Schnell was released. The song called 'I have been waiting' takes us back to the days of the Chicago blues when expression, sensitivity and soulfulness were the hallmarks of music.

'Ethos: Son of a Sharecropper' is the name of the new record by Chicago-based singer-songwriter Terry Blade.The 10-track album is a new round of his creativity that reveals even more powerfully his talent and shows what modern blues can be like.

Carsten Schnell is known for his electronic music of the 90s for his collaboration with the label BSC Music when he created recognizable ambient music. Having received a classical musical education and successful experiences with the palette of electronic music, Carsten Schnell returns to his ultimate love of the blues.