The Key

On their debut album, Aphantasia, Philly shoegazers Cigarettes for Breakfast are looking ahead -- not down, or back -- as they tap into new sonic horizons.

The spacious sonic environment provides the perfect amount of room for Jasmine Cassell’s to-the-point hook: Things change / things change.

Anthony Green will perform a full band, multi-cam, livestream performance for Will Yip's Live at Studio 4 Recording series.

You Feel Like You’re in Quicksand is a wonderful blend musical styles from Brittany Luna of Catbite and Mike Park of Asian Man Records.

In her new video, Ivy Sole explores an emotion that’s uncommon in her music, but is something many of us have felt this year more than ever rage.

Brendan McHale and Christian Turzo, Philly musicians and bandmates across several local gigs including Whaler Jr. and RFA, have joined forces yet again for their latest project Echo Kid.

Jules Franklin hopes the EP's six songs will connect with listeners who've also struggled through 2020, and also serve sonic time capsule to help document this complicated year.

The name ‘Julian’ is used as a poetic device to personify specific deep-seated emotions. The song explores the way that love and loss pull at our heartstrings and throws enough ambiguity into the mix so that the listener can fill in the blanks with their own personal experiences. The song is designed to let the listener tell themselves their own story. - Path's Sam Keeler

Strange Ranger's new track, titled Needing You, finds the endlessly heartfelt four-piece doubling down on their lo-fi sound, offering an even rawer, dreamier production, while still centering in on wide, emotional hooks.

In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of their albums 'The Upsides' and 'Suburbia: I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing', The Wonder Years has returned to their pop-punk roots with their track Brakeless. https://thekey.xpn.org/2020//26/the-wonder-years-brakeless/

As Danny Black explains, "it’s the perfect song to put on your next roadtrip playlist."

The track is a sprawling ode (in Denison Witmer’s own words, a folk inspired country rock anthem) to the Pennsylvania region where the singer/songwriter calls home.

Son Little, the project of Philly-rooted singer-guitarist Aaron Livingston, is back with a new single and a new sound.