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Blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter Gabe Stillman will release his sophomore album What Happens Next? on March 27 via Gulf Coast Records, marking his official debut on the label.

Stillman has spent the last decade steadily building his reputation through relentless touring and a growing body of recorded work. The Pennsylvania native first gained widespread attention after winning Gibson’s Best Guitarist Award at the 2019 International Blues Challenge. His debut album of original material later reached the top 10 on the Billboard Blues Chart, helping establish him as one of the rising voices in modern blues.

What Happens Next? finds Stillman continuing to expand his sound while staying rooted in the blues. The album blends grit, groove, and emotional depth as Stillman explores themes of self-reflection, loss, pride, and renewal. Throughout the record, his songwriting balances moments of vulnerability with humor and confidence, supported by strong musicianship and his expressive guitar work.

The album reflects an artist navigating change and personal growth while pushing forward creatively. From introspective moments to high-energy performances, What Happens Next? captures Stillman stepping further into his identity as both a guitarist and songwriter.

With the release of the new album, Stillman also joins the roster of Mike Zito’s Gulf Coast Records, a label known for championing contemporary blues artists who honor tradition while pushing the genre forward.

What Happens Next? arrives March 27.

TRACK LIST

What Happens Next?
Yesterday’s Donuts
The Man I’m Supposed To Be
Someone In My Mirror
Shame Shame
Scremin’
I’ve Got To Use My
Living Your Life
Gentle On My Mind

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Dark Universe is a dark cinematic instrumental album that fuses orchestral tension and heavy intensity. Designed as a soundtrack without images, it explores the psychological depth and immersive atmosphere. A powerful first chapter of an evolving musical universe. Frisson Reynald is an emotional piano composer and cinematographic instrumental music. His work mixes melancholic piano, atmospheric […]

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No longer numb now I can see
Now I know how much hurt is inside of me
Your feelings are dead to me,
dead to me.. dead to me.. dead to meeeeee 

There is a certain kind of song that arrives carrying its own weather, as if it has already passed through the storm and come back with the story still written across its face. Tranquilatwist, the Rochester duo of Karlie and Anthony Lanni, tap into that feeling with a new single that walks straight into the wreckage of a relationship built on devotion, only to find the slow, necessary work of selfhood waiting on the other side. It feels lived-in and wise, the kind of music made by people who understand that real emotional fallout rarely arrives in a single flash.

The song’s overarching ache comes from the collapse of a bond once treated as sacred. Love and identity have been so tightly bound together that one seems to vanish inside the other. “There was never me, it was always we” lands like the moment the room changes temperature, the instant when private hurt sharpens into recognition. From there, the song moves through outrage, grief, and release with a steady sense of purpose, as buried pain rises to the surface and the old emotional arrangement reveals itself for what it was: a place of confinement dressed up as safety. By the time the singer reaches toward buoyancy and self-reclamation, the words carry the glow of survival.

The music wraps that emotional arc in a gorgeous “down-tempo Goth” atmosphere that feels soft around the edges and steel-wired at the center. The vocals bring to mind Kate Bush, Loreena McKennitt, Annie Lennox, Strange Boutique, and Portishead. There is something deeply felt in the phrasing, a wounded grace that moves across the electronic arrangement with patience and poise. Around it, Tranquilatwist builds a world of hushed beats, drifting textures, and slow-burning mood, giving the song a sense of ceremonial release.

The haunting self-directed video beautifully captures that emotional terrain. Its montage of outdoor vignettes and sincere performance scenes leans into dreamlike imagery without losing its emotional footing. A smoking jack-in-the-box becomes the perfect symbol for the bad surprises hidden inside intimacy, the boxed-in role, the old hurt waiting to spring loose. Smoke curls through the frame like a cleansing force, while dance and ritual gestures suggest a kind of spiritual reset, clearing out old ghosts and stale expectations. There is something lovely in the way the clip frames this recovery as both private and mythic: the return of a buried self.

Watch Bend below:

Tranquilatwist have made a song about heartbreak that feels less like collapse than conversion. The pain stays in the picture, but so does the chance to rise from it with clarity, with motion, with your own name back in your mouth. It’s the perfect time for some spring cleaning.

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Zakk Wylde’s band performs Ozzy Osbourne classic live for first time since 2001, kicking off tour at Denver’s Mission Ballroom.

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Atlanta-based blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Tinsley Ellis has released a new music video for “Sweet Ice Tea,” a standout track from his latest album Labor Of Love. The album arrived on January 30 and marks Ellis’ second acoustic release, following 2024’s Blues Music Award-nominated Naked Truth. Unlike its predecessor, Labor Of Love features entirely original material.

The album is available on CD, Georgia peach-colored vinyl LP, and across all digital streaming platforms.

“Sweet Ice Tea” made its debut on the nationally syndicated radio program Acoustic Café, which airs in more than 120 markets across the United States. Since the release of Labor Of Love, the album has found strong support on radio, reaching No. 1 on the NACC Blues Genre Chart (North Americana College & Community) and The Big Blues Radio Chart. The record has also appeared on the Folk Alliance International Radio Chart’s Top 50 and has been performing strongly on blues radio charts internationally, including in France, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

According to Ellis, “Sweet Ice Tea is a hill country blues stomper with a plaintive shout-out to the love of my life — Soul Food! We hope it makes the listener hungry for more songs from my new Labor Of Love album!”

The video for the song was directed by filmmaker Tony Bieser, who previously collaborated with Ellis on the videos for “Too Broke” and “Hoodoo Woman.”

With Labor Of Love, Ellis delivers a raw and self-produced collection of 13 original songs performed with stripped-down intensity. The album explores a range of themes, including floods, fire, voodoo spirits, personal struggles, and spiritual reflection. From the gritty opener “Hoodoo Woman” to the John Lee Hooker-inspired groove of “Long Time,” the Skip James-influenced “To A Hammer,” and the Son House-style stomp of “Sunnyland,” the record highlights Ellis’ deep connection to traditional blues forms while presenting his own modern voice.

Ellis has spent more than four decades on the road, and the experience shows throughout the album’s performances. The songs move between moments of quiet beauty and driving intensity, reflecting both the hardships and joys found throughout the blues tradition.

In support of the album, Ellis continues to tour across the country with his solo acoustic “Two Guitars And A Car” tour. The format allows him to focus on the core elements of blues performance and the expressive possibilities of the acoustic guitar.

“I love doing these shows,” Ellis says, “I can be more expressive and emotional as a solo acoustic artist. I just love the sound of acoustic guitar. I always have.”

For Ellis, the album title reflects his lifelong dedication to the music that shaped him.

“No matter what I play, I like to have an edge,” Ellis says. “For me, just playing this music is a labor of love. I sat at the feet of Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf. I got into this music because of them. I always told myself if I could just make a living playing the blues, I’d be, at least in my own mind, successful.”

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Last year, BIG|BRAVE unleashed OST. Today, the Montreal band is back to announce their tenth studio album in grief or in hope, arriving in June. The lead single “the ineptitude for mutual discernment” is here. For in grief or in hope, guitarist/vocalist Robin Wattie and guitarist Mathieu Ball were joined in the studio by their…

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Perth rockers Electric State are stirring the pot with their latest single, Stand Up.

Out now on all streaming platforms, Stand Up is the second single from the band’s album due for release early next year. The lads launched their new baby on last weekend’s Ship Happens cruise on the Swan River. Next they’ll be in Melbourne at Musicland on April 30 and May 1 for the X Music 5th anniversary bash with Frankenbok, Sisters Doll, Dellacoma and more, and then back to WA for the Kalbarri Music Festival on May 2.

Sydney metal entity Evilean is releasing their EP Exhumation Evilean next month.

The first EP for the extreme thrash act, Exhumation Evilean will be released on April 3. Single and clip Lost Cause are available to stream and view now.