The opening bars of Molly Devine's "Yes" arrive with the kind of deliberate quietness that suggests confidence rather than timidity. Those smoky chords, blues-inflected and unhurried, establish a mood of contemplation before the song gradually reveals its true ambitions. This is music that understands the value of restraint, even as it builds toward moments of unabashed abandon.

The American South has long proved itself a crucible for musical authenticity, and Lewis Stubbs Junior's latest offering emerges from that tradition with quiet, unassuming authority. "Back Home to You," recorded at Nashville's The Insanery with engineer Casey Wood, represents the Fairview, Tennessee native's most accomplished work to date—a meditation on redemption that refuses the easy comforts of sentimentality.

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.