Eric Frisch has a sound that’s easy to love. It’s wrapped in nostalgia that often provides warming memories — care-free summer vacations, new love, sunny days — as is relatively typical of homages

“Nineteen Fifty Three”, the new single from New Zealand-based Nick Raven, combines glistening post-punk and nocturnal alternative-pop for an entrancing effect. The gentle guitar twangs and wispy synth-pad washes remind of Wild

Moanin' at Midnight: The Howlin' Wolf Project by Tomas Doncker Band Tomás Doncker formed his True Groove label with an artist-first ideology that gravitated toward the “global soul” movement.  More of an ideology

Influenced largely by “jazz and ’80s video games”, Graphics on Televisions provide a mixture of nostalgia and funky suaveness throughout their new album Pun. The duo is presently based in Tokyo, an

Parisian singer/songwriter Juliette Jules sounds like a star in the making. She delivers a generally dark and moody vein of pop led by acoustics and keys, but one that is immediately accessible

Men of Honor by Likers Philadelphia quartet Likers produces a fierce vein of power-pop with a lively punk-rock edge. Their 6-song debut, Men of Honor, is an exciting release that flaunts a stunner from

Miles Wick stirs up haunting beauty within his music, often led by a caressing acoustic guitar — but with many other elements too, such as the playful mbira on the excellent “In My

San Diego-based indie-pop project Speaker In Reverse delivers a smoothly infectious sound on “Holy Girl”. The track offers several memorable moments in its 3+ minutes, occurring often when the twangy pedal steel