**There's a dry cleaner's on the cover of Chris Marksberry's second album. It's an inspired choice — unpretentious, rooted in place, faintly comic. It tells you everything you need to know before the needle drops.**

Chicago duo wht.rbbt.obj have spent the better part of three years constructing an elaborate musical cryptogram, and with Oscar Bravo Juliett, they've finally delivered the decoder ring—though whether it illuminates or further obscures remains thrillingly ambiguous. This nine-track finale to their NATO Call Sign Trilogy doesn't so much conclude a narrative as detonate one, leaving the listener to sift through the gorgeous wreckage.

TC TENET's approach to alternative rock feels deliciously anachronistic—this is an artist who still believes in the transformative power of volume, distortion, and righteous fury. His latest live session at Arcus Sounds captures "Animals" in all its unvarnished glory, a track that doesn't so much arrive as it does detonate.

Ken Woods is a talented guitarist and composer who writes wonderful songs filled with meaning, history and charisma. His debut single 'Ride the Rails' captivates with its honesty of the narrative and rawness of the sound.

On October 25, the Swedish rock duo Smoke Spider released their album 'Voodoo Spell', which opens a new stage of the creative partnership of this talented tandem. Vocalist Göran Florström and multi-instrumentalist Johan Granat create fantastic rock songs imbued with a ball of freedom and entrepreneurship when it comes to music.

JaJaJaJa is a Parisian rock band of Algerian origin. The guys play the so-called Algerian rock (Gourbi-Rock) that was popular in the 90s, offering their own style and charisma. The song 'Blues El Bilad' is the first from the upcoming debut EP of this interesting and extraordinary band.

'Nothing In This World' is the latest single from the debut EP London based artist Max Norton. Thus, before us is the entire tracklist, which represents the original work of Max Norton as a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter.

Nick Noon is a Nashville-based artist whose music connects the best moments of classic rock to modern trends in indie music. As a multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, Nick Noon writes and records worthy songs that will surely appeal to all lovers of live rock n roll sound.

On February 9, Canadian rock band Code Seventy Three released a new single 'Live Once'. This is one of their new 5 songs which are planned to be released early this year. Their debut mini-album 'Stained Man' already announced Code Seventy Three as an interesting and extraordinary rock band.

The American band Onism E presented their new single 'I'm Sorry' on November 2. This song is a kind of hymn to freedom and accessibility of one's own choice.