Tooth, an alt-rock band, discusses their debut single, performing live, and their promising future.

Photo by Elizabeth Marsh mercury is the indie rock project of Maddie Kerr, a Tennessee-based songwriter from the rural outskirts of Franklin whose music is built on emotional honesty and quiet intensity. Formed in 2022, the project quickly found its footing through songs written during a period of personal hardship, with tracks like ‘Born in Early May,’  ‘ Special,’  and ‘Crick’  capturing moments of uncertainty, vulnerability, and self-reckoning. For Kerr, songwriting has always been a way...

Photo by Zinna Mac-Eochaidh In the middle of lockdown, when the world was confined to screens and group chats, Haloplus+ began to take shape. The Copenhagen trio – Isa Nam Sook, Joakim Wei Bernild, and Stine Victoria Pedersen – started trading demos over messages, their early sketches unfolding like digital conversations between friends. That sense of exchange never left; it remains at the core of what Haloplus+ do. Whether it’s a song, a piece of merch, or a live event, everything they make...