Rock Era Magazine

Magenta Ray is Lisa Hart and Mark Larson, a couple and creative partnership a decade deep, and “A Kiss Like This” was written during COVID lockdown, a period the pair describe as genuinely blissful even while the world around them wasn’t. The song captures the anticipation of ...

Tennessee May named “Nemoralia” after the Roman festival honoring Diana, and the song is built as a direct offering to that same lunar territory, written for the moon and everyone under her protection. Developed with cellist Beatriz, it started from a genuinely unsettling pl...

“Template” is the second single off Fading Signals‘ debut album Metanoia, due September 25th, and it makes a strong case for a Portland five-piece that’s built its whole identity around not choosing sides: human versus electronic, guitars versus synths, darkness versus hope...

“ghostdown” is the first thing we’re hearing from Midgriefs‘ upcoming album Signs of Laughter, out August 18th, and it lands as a fitting introduction, a track built around the struggle of holding onto a light that’s barely there while the dark keeps pressing in. Bermuda-based <...

Dr. M. has spent years building toward this. The Turku-based, 39-year-old songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist first surfaced back in 2019 with “The Climate Song (Before It’s Too Late),” and Follow Me is the full-length payoff of that solo groundwork, a nine-track debut ...