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Ana & Gene have returned to A&R Factory with two social impact anthems built from lived concern, stubborn hope and the belief that music can meet people in the places where shame often keeps them silent. In this interview, the duo talks about I Feel Alive So Alive, a pop-rock and synth-charged song about addiction, recovery and fighting your way back to happiness, alo...

Wailing banshees have got nothing on the guitars that tear through Reborn and straight through your ribcage under the command of rock renegade Luca Pisanu. The Sardinian singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist, now based in Glasgow, roots his sound in rock, blues, soul, jazz, funk and neo-soul, but Reborn arrives as the kind of full-throttle rock single that mak...

Get drunk on pop-punk nostalgia with Vagabond’s latest single, Forever. The York-based raw melodic punk trio, formed in 2023, brought classic pop-punk teeth into a modern bite, filling the track with the kind of emotional punch that proves punk still has blood under its fingernails. The way the chugging chords swagger angst straight into the diehard romantic anthem, as the gu...

Paqx comes to A&R Factory as an artist shaped by New Orleans in all its legacy, pressure, resilience and brutal economics. Across this interview, the independent artist, producer and SonicCritic founder opened up about spending six years performing and recording in one of America’s most musically loaded cities, the early loss of credits that changed how he thought about t...

Ahead of the release of the Waiting Room LP, E-Rhythm locked listeners into funk-fuelled fire that cinematically smoulders through the advance single, Off the Grid. As drummer and producer within Waterbury, Connecticut’s Poor Legacy, alongside frontman Nailz and keyboardist D-Note, E-Rhythm brought a live-band sensibility to instrumental hip-hop, letting groove, texture and a...