First Aid Kit has released their new album, Palomino. The critically acclaimed Swedish duo consists of singer-songwriters and sisters Johanna and Klara Soderberg. Palomino is filled with eleven songs that frame the sisters’ vocals with strings, horns, pop synths, catchy drumbeats, full bass, and well-placed guitar. Both sisters share lead vocals and combine to create angelic vocal harmonies.

With a propelling opener song, “Out Of My Head,” First Aid Kit will capture your attention with their powerful vocals and stunning harmonies. The style is a cross between pop and rock, which will pull in many fans, regardless of their [...]

Holly Humberstone is releasing a compilation album titled, Can You Afford to Lose Me? Humberstone won the Brit Award for Rising Star at the 2022 Brit Awards, pushing the English singer-songwriter to new heights. The new album combines her last two EPs in a fresh order and adds one new track, the title track.

“Can You Afford To Lose Me?” is an introspective song with Humberstone’s up-front and intimately in your face. Her vocals a clear, and she executes beautiful glissandos with control and emotion. Her songwriting tells a story as the song evolves and brings in new sounds throughout the four-minute [...]

Tamino is a Belgian-Egyptian singer, songwriter, guitarist, oudist, and Egyptian actor. He came to the guitar as a teenager when he found a rare resonator guitar in the attic of his late grandfather – the Egyptian actor and musician Muharram Fouad, who became known as “The Voice of the Nile.”. Today Tamino plays the guitar and the oud – creating a double bridge to his cultural past, ultimately understanding and articulating his emotional present. Tamino’s sophomore album, Sahar, explores mystery and wonder, romance and devotion, sorrow and hope.

“The Longing” opens with Tamino’s tapestry of guitar and oud [...]

Ari Lennox returns and has released a new album titled age/sex/location. Lennox has not released an album for the past three years. Now she brings us a 12-track sophomore release that has her R&B vocals augmented with appearances from Lucky Daye (“Boy Bye”), Summer Walker (“Queen Space”), and Chlöe (“Leak It”), with production from J. Cole, Elite, Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, J. White Did It, Cardiak, and Organized Noize. “Transitional space. Very vulnerable codependent and validation seeking part of my life,” she wrote. “I remember the countless times I was kicked out of dating apps because they didn’t think I was really myself; it [...]