Subhi has released the latest single, "Wake Me Up", from her forthcoming EP. Originally from India, the independent Pop artist has been working the follow-up to her 2017 debut Shaitaan Dil for months, and wrote this track durning the first week of March. It captures that feeling of panic just before quarantine began

According to Subhi, "’Wake Me Up’ is a song about that time, about the fear of being lonely, about hopelessness, helplessness and trying to find a way to remove the darkness from the world".

Post Hardcore group Crowning has released their latest album, Survival/Sickness, via Zegema Beach Records. This is the band’s first full-length album since their 2017 debut album Funeral Designs.

This is a concept album following the journey of a cosmic outsider who comes to earth and poses the album’s main question, is survival the sickness?

Savanna Dickhut (aka Burr Oak) has released the second single, "Flower Garden", from her forthcoming debut album Late Bloomer. The song is the perfect Autumn track touching on the changing of seasons and how that feeling can be applied to some relationships.

This singles follows last month’s "Trying" and is Dickhut’s fourth official single since branching out as Burr Oak.

Cordoba recently channeled the scariest parts of 2020 into a spooky new album, Specter, which dropped the day before Halloween. The sextet uses their signature left of center jazz fusion grooves as a bed for lyrics that touch on topics like gentrification, police brutality, and escalating social unrest.

The group’s lead singer Brianna Tong was on the most recent episode of the wonderful podcast Music Therapy with Jessica Risker discussing the new album, it’s themes, and how to stay creative in these times.

Liv Roskos recently released a new single and video called "Seeds". The song was written for Roskos’ wedding three years and the video was created using scenes from that wedding. This is her second single of 2020 follow-up the ode to her daughter, "Little Light".

Liv has such a deep and soulful voice and it great to see her sharing these two warm and positive songs in this chaotic year.

Liam Kazar has released a fantastic, introspective new single called "On a Spanish Dune". On the song he is joined be several of the Chicago’s finest musicians including Spencer Tweedy, James Elkington, Ohmme, and David Curtin.

The video for the single was directed by Jesse Morgan Young who explain the wild video like this; “After Kazar hurriedly leaves before dawn he’s thwarted by car trouble. Rescued by an unnervingly cheerful loner, the two make their way to an abandoned farm only to find out it’s not so abandoned. An eccentric survivalist has made the isolated locale his home and they spend the evening enjoying each other’s company and a bit of the stranger’s funky elixir.”

Photo Credit: Kevin Morby

Doom Metal band Rosaries have released their sophomore EP "Anomie". The group formed three years ago and is fronted by the talented Amanda Flores. On this three song EP they delve deep into the darkness and even met the Devil himself. Flores’ vocals are powerful and haunting guiding your along this frightening journey.

Bleach Party have rerecorded their song "Secret Ships", which was originally released as part of a split EP in 2015, for the latest installment of their Storytellers Series. In the video below, lead singer Meghan MacDuff explain the incredible and spooky story that inspired the song and the full band performs the track virtually.

This is the third installment in the fun series and you can find them all here.

D’Zhari released her latest single, "Alone", back in September and it is accompanied by the beautifully shot video below.

This is the R&B singers third single in as many years, and follows-up her wonderful 2019 collaboration with femdot. "Soul Searching".

Superkick has released their latest EP, "Like This / Like That". This is the Alt Rock trio of Mike Vaughn, Joey Mirabelli, and Tom Ruby.

The EP’s lead single, "Sure Thing", was released back in September and features vocals from Laura Jean Anderson.

Jordanna has released a new single featuring Yasmine Mifdal called "untitled (chicago)". The single is the soulful R&B artists fourth of 2020 and sixth overall since releasing her debut EP, "Sweet Tooth", back in 2018.

The video for the single was beautifully directed by Rosaleah Gonzalez and finds the pair in a crumbling, abandoned building to sharply contrast the warmth in the sound and lyrics of the song.