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50-Plus Punk Bands Unite for a Massive Community-Driven Green Day Tribute Benefiting No-Kill Animal Shelters

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This is punk rock doing exactly what it does best. Punk Rock Radar and Coffin Curse Records have joined forces for the first installment of their Tribute to Green Day series, a massive community-driven compilation featuring more than 50 bands across the punk and alternative spectrum, with every dollar of proceeds going directly to no-kill animal shelters. Get it here.

The project is built on 2 simple ideas: celebrate one of punk rock’s most influential catalogs, and do some genuine good in the process. 100% of all proceeds benefit Young-Williams Animal Center in Knoxville, Tennessee and CARE of DC in Wappingers Falls, New York. It’s a rare compilation with a real purpose behind it.

The release arrives as 2 volumes on double LP vinyl, with each color variant designed to match the look and feel of Green Day’s most iconic albums. Volume 1 carries Dookie artwork and covers the band’s early catalog extensively. Volume 2 moves through Insomniac and American Idiot territory, with bands tackling everything from “Basket Case” and “Longview” to “American Idiot” and “Good Riddance.”

The lineup is stacked with names that punk fans will recognize immediately. Audio Karate, Ballyhoo!, Krang, and Rabies are among the standouts, joined by dozens of bands each bringing their own distinct take to songs that have been part of the punk conversation for 3 decades. As a discovery tool alone, the compilation earns its place, but the charitable foundation makes it something worth actively supporting.

Select copies are available in the UK and EU via Cats Claw Records.

Volume 1 – Dookie Art:

Side A

  1. Smacked – 2000 Light Years Away
  2. Gone Stereo – One For The Razorbacks
  3. Mortars – 80
  4. Hell Beach – Android
  5. Lesser Rockstars – No One Knows
  6. Popeless & the Apostates – The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink

Side B

  1. Enemy Proof – Disappearing Boy
  2. Stay Out – Green Day
  3. Making Friends – Going To Pasalacqua
  4. Regal Beagle – Why Do You Want Him?
  5. Random Heroes – Cigarettes & Valentines
  6. Jukebox Romantics – J.A.R.
  7. Raincheck – Sick Of Me
  8. All Ages – Don’t Wanna Fall In Love

Side C

  1. Krang – Burnout
  2. Divide By Zero – Having A Blast
  3. Nowhere Fast – Longview
  4. Borderlines – Pulling Teeth
  5. Common Perry – Basket Case
  6. 88Bunkface – She
  7. Brutal Youth – Sassafras Roots
  8. Moral Less Right – When I Come Around
  9. Agent 51 – Emenius Sleepus

Side D

  1. Phineas Gage – In The End
  2. Ballyhoo – Armatage Shanks
  3. Punchline13 – Brat
  4. American Television – Geek Stink Breath
  5. Fat Heaven – Babs Uvula Who
  6. Rough Dreams – 86
  7. Dead Alright – Stuart And The Avenue
  8. Warn The Duke – Brain Stew
  9. Lola – Jaded
  10. Fight Back Mountain – Westbound Sign
  11. Hot Alice – Walking Contradiction

Volume 2 – Insomniac Art:

Side A

  1. The Enthused – Nice Guys Finish Last
  2. Senor Dinosaur – Hitchin A Ride
  3. The Bad Ups – The Grouch
  4. Virginity – Redundant
  5. Too Bad Eugene – Scattered
  6. One Reason To Rise – All The Time
  7. Audio Karate – Worry Rock
  8. The Remote Controls – Platypus (I Hate You)

Side B

  1. Brain Soup – Jinx
  2. Game Time – Haushinka
  3. No Quarter – King For A Day
  4. Casper Flip – Good Riddance
  5. Rabies – American Idiot
  6. Misconduct – Holiday
  7. Goin’ Places – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

Side C

  1. Paper Lanterns – St. Jimmy
  2. Heavy Dose – Letterbomb
  3. The Crease Rule – Blood, Sex & Booze
  4. The Upshot – Church On Sunday

Side D

  1. Pat Decline – Castaway
  2. The Overjoyed – Misery
  3. Old Cross – Deadbeat Holiday
  4. Goldenboy – Waiting
  5. No Guidance – Minority
  6. GDCP – Bobby Sox

Swiss Gothic Quartet Lone Assembly Arrive Fully Formed on Debut Album “Knots & Chains”

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Lone Assembly have been building toward this, and “Knots & Chains” delivers on every promise the Swiss quartet has made. The debut album is out now, arriving alongside a new video for “You’re Pulling at the Same Strings,” and it’s a richly crafted, emotionally complex record that announces a genuinely distinctive new voice in gothic new wave and synth-pop.

The album is thematically unified around a single, multifaceted idea: control. Control exerted by others, cultivated within ourselves, and imposed by the places we inhabit. Each track approaches that theme from a different angle, creating a record that moves like a cycle, from suffocation to openness, from closed spaces to something more fragile and breathable.

Vocalist Raphaël Bressler frames the album’s arc directly. “The album takes shape like a cycle, moving from suffocation to openness, from closed spaces to greater, albeit fragile, breathing space.”

“You’re Pulling at the Same Strings” examines the control others exert, the narrator wrestling with the evil that dwells within another person. “The Pain Keeper” and “My Life’s Solid” turn inward, exploring self-imposed control. “The City Works Like This” expands the lens further, treating the city itself as a living organism that absorbs, rejects, and distorts those who inhabit it. And “In the Open” provides the record’s vital exhale, a genuine banger amid the darkness.

Musically, “Knots & Chains” leans into an ’80s coldness polished with magnificently modern production. The influence of Factory Records’ golden years is audible throughout, balanced against the pop directness of bands like Editors. Bressler’s voice carries real depth and gravity, Glenn Le Meur’s soaring guitars push the sound wide open, and Jim Bodeman and Romain Segu form a rhythm section with genuine power.

The band first emerged with debut EP ‘That Never Happened’ in early 2024, a tribute to a lost loved one that quickly transformed the project into something beyond music, a space for healing and closeness. That urgency is amplified across every track on “Knots & Chains,” a debut album of high aesthetic standards and remarkable pop appeal in equal measure.

Toronto Singer-Songwriter Katie Dauson Brings Rockabilly Back to Life on New Single “Will You Won’t You”

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Katie Dauson writes early in the morning, when her mind is fresh and ideas arrive without resistance, and “Will You Won’t You” has that spontaneous spark embedded in its DNA. The Toronto singer-songwriter’s new single is out now, produced by James Nickle, and it’s a toe-tapping, grin-inducing slice of rockabilly rock and roll that feels both vintage and completely alive.

Drawing from 1950s rockabilly, particularly The Crickets, and the ’70s revivalists who modernized the style, including Blondie and George Thorogood, Dauson blends retro swing with a contemporary edge that makes the track sit comfortably across rockabilly, rock and roll, and country all at once.

Her enthusiasm for the source material is genuine and specific. “I love George Thorogood’s guitar playing, and the fact that he added a saxophone player to his band in 1980. Saxophone is such an important instrument in rock and roll and rockabilly, it really elevated his music. I love how some of the ’70s groups took that ’50s style and modernised it with more instrumentation and a different vibe.”

The recording approach reflects that same attention to detail. Dauson tracked the rhythm guitar on a left-handed G&L Comanche in Shoreline Gold, choosing the instrument specifically for its distinctive Z-coil pickups and their unique tonal character. A fuzz pedal was added to inject a touch of modern dirt and grit into the mix, bridging the vintage feel with something harder-edged and current.

“Will You Won’t You” follows previous single “Get Ready” and continues to build the case for Dauson as one of Toronto’s most genre-savvy and fearlessly individual voices. Playful, gritty, and irresistibly catchy, it honours the roots of rock and roll while sounding entirely like its own thing.

South African Rock Veteran Steve Louw Delivers His Most Confident Work Yet on ‘Traces of the Flood’

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Steve Louw has been making records for over 4 decades, and ‘Traces of the Flood’ stands as one of the finest of his career. The South African singer-songwriter and guitarist’s fourth solo album in 5 years is out now, a 10-track collection recorded live in the room at Nashville’s RCA Studio with a band operating at full flight.

Lead single “Time To Move” arrives with an official music video, and it’s a perfect introduction to what the album delivers. The song nearly didn’t make the cut. “I didn’t think I’d do that song if only because I thought it wasn’t ready,” Louw recalls, “but when we started playing it, we fell right into the song’s groove. After 3 days of jamming in the studio the song became effortless.”

The album was produced by Kevin Shirley, Louw’s creative partner since 1986, whose credits include Joe Bonamassa, Black Country Communion, Beth Hart, and Joanne Shaw Taylor. The sessions brought together an exceptional group of players, with Louw recruiting guitarists Bob Britt and Doug Lancio after spotting them play together at a Dylan show in Memphis.

“I’d seen Bob Britt play with Doug Lancio at a Dylan show in Memphis, and I wanted to have those two guitar players in the band for this record,” he explains. The instinct paid off completely. The band walked into the studio on day one, plugged in, and played, arriving with 18 songs and recording with the kind of loose, committed energy that can’t be manufactured.

Individual tracks illuminate the process. “Echo Dream” was built around 3 acoustic guitars, Louw, Britt, and Lancio playing together while Greg Morrow handled drums, before a single electric guitar part completed it. “CBGB Xmas” came to life in a single take with 10 minutes of studio time left. “We just knocked it out. You hear how we caught it in one loose jam.”

The result is an album that sounds exactly like what it is, a band in full flight, capturing the energy and urgency of a room full of committed players doing what they do best. ‘Traces of the Flood’ joins ‘Headlight Dreams’ (2021), ‘Thunder & Rain’ (2022), and ‘Between Time’ (2024) in a run of solo work that has cemented Louw’s international reputation well beyond his South African Rock Hall of Fame status.

A musician who collaborated with Brian May and Dave Stewart on the Nelson Mandela-inspired 46664 AIDS awareness project, and whose band Big Sky helped soundtrack South Africa’s transition away from apartheid in the 1990s, Louw carries real history into everything he makes. ‘Traces of the Flood’ is the latest proof that the journey is far from over.

KillerStar and Their Bowie Collaborators Cross Into Epic Territory With “Rubicon”

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KillerStar operate in a space very few bands occupy, and “Rubicon” makes that unmistakably clear. The new single from the art-rock duo of Rob Fleming and James Sedge is out now, previewing their second album ‘The Afterglow’, and it’s one of the most ambitious tracks they’ve released to date.

“Rubicon” is epic in both scope and duration, unfolding like a journey with progressive leanings held in perfect balance with the band’s commitment to making every moment count. The cast assembled around Fleming and Sedge is extraordinary, a constellation of David Bowie’s most trusted collaborators who have each organically gravitated toward the project over time.

Gerry Leonard contributes ambient guitar work, Earl Slick delivers a sprawling, fluid solo alongside Fleming, and Mark Garson’s atmospheric keys add the kind of depth that only comes from someone who has inhabited this sonic world for decades. Mark Plati handles bass, The Webb Sisters, known for their work with David Gilmour and Leonard Cohen, bring ethereal vocal harmonies, and Emm Grynor adds backing vocals.

The lyrical foundation is equally ambitious. Fleming draws on one of history’s most consequential decisions as a lens for personal ones. “The song is about crossing the point of no return, on two levels, Julius Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon River and anyone’s individual decision points regarding tackling tough decisions.”

‘The Afterglow’ was produced by Fleming and Sedge alongside Dave Eringa, whose credits include Manic Street Preachers and The Who, who also mixed the record. The result is an album rich with glam, art-rock, hook-laden pop, and touches of jazz, all anchored by killer melodies and lyrical themes on life, love, and remembering.

The duo’s self-titled debut earned praise from MOJO, Louder Than War, and Vintage Guitar. ‘The Afterglow’ builds on that foundation while pushing into something more fully realized and more sonically expansive than anything they’ve attempted before.

Rob Zombie Unleashes His Boldest Statement Yet With ‘The Great Satan’

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Rob Zombie has spent more than 4 decades building a world entirely his own, and ‘The Great Satan’ is his most fully realized version of it yet. The new album is out now via Nuclear Blast Records, arriving alongside a self-directed music video for “F.T.W. 84” that expands the record’s vivid and uncompromising visual universe.

Fusing avant-garde aesthetics with monstrous, groove-driven rock, Zombie has never made a record that sounds like anyone else, and ‘The Great Satan’ continues that tradition with real force. From the foot-stomping swagger of “(I’m a) Rock ‘N’ Roller” to the throwback grit of “Heathen Days” and the anthemic punch of “Punks And Demons,” the album moves through its own cinematic landscape on its own terms, leaving trends and expectations entirely behind.

The self-directed video for “F.T.W. 84” is exactly what you’d expect from one of rock’s most committed visual auteurs, an extension of the album’s aesthetic world that reinforces why Zombie’s art has always operated across multiple dimensions simultaneously. The music and the imagery are inseparable, and that’s been true since the beginning.

‘The Great Satan’ lands as Zombie also prepares for a summer tour alongside Marilyn Manson, making 2026 one of the more consequential years of a career that has never stood still. For a singular cultural force who has consistently defied convention across music and film, this album is another reminder that nobody does this quite like Rob Zombie.

Michael Bublé Finally Releases the Full 100-Minute ‘Live! Caught In The Act’ Concert in Its Entirety

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Michael Bublé walked onto the stage at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles in 2005 and delivered one of the great concert performances of his career. For the first time, all 33 tracks from that legendary 100-minute night are available in full on ‘Live! Caught In The Act’, out now on all streaming platforms and CD via Warner Records.

The original 2005 live album, ‘Caught In The Act’, only featured 8 songs. The 2006 quadruple platinum DVD captured more of the evening, and PBS aired portions of it on Great Performances. But the complete concert has never been released until now, and ‘Live! Caught In The Act’ finally gives the full picture.

The preview track “That’s All (Live)” arrived ahead of the release, and it’s the perfect introduction to what the full album delivers, a heartfelt, full-bodied vocal performance that captures exactly who Bublé was at that pivotal moment in his career.

This was Bublé on the rise, hungry and utterly committed to the crowd in front of him. Classics like “Come Fly With Me,” “How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You,” “Save The Last Dance For Me,” and “Moondance” sit alongside moments of genuine connection, handshakes and hugs with the audience, jokes from the stage, and the kind of host-level warmth that set him apart from the beginning.

Highlights include a duet with Laura Pausini on “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine” and a rendition of “Let It Snow” that, as Bublé himself suggested to the crowd, sounds like December no matter what time of year it plays.

Beyond the concert release, Bublé has had a remarkable stretch. He completed his third consecutive season as a coach on NBC’s The Voice, closing out Season 28 following back-to-back wins on Seasons 26 and 27. He performed at A Grammy Celebration of Latin Music, and in December made headlines with a historic performance at the Concert with the Poor, attended by Pope Leo XIV in what marked the first time a Pope was present at the event.

‘Live! Caught In The Act’ is essential listening for longtime fans and a remarkable entry point for anyone still discovering one of the 21st century’s great live entertainers.

Tracklist:

Overture

Feeling Good

Sway

Introduction & Welcome

Try A Little Tenderness

Fever

No flash photography!

Michael visits the balcony

Come Fly With Me

The Summer Wind

Moondance

Band introduction

Michael pays tribute to his idols

You Don’t Know Me

That’s All

For Once In My Life

Michael introduces Laura Pausini

You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine (with Laura Pausini)

Michael has an epiphany

I’ve Got You Under My Skin

Michael introduces Smile

Smile

Michael introduces Home

Home

You & I

The More I See You

Save The Last Dance For Me

How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You

Can’t Buy Me Love

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Closing remarks

A Song For You / Finale

Let It Snow (Bonus Track)

Country Sensation Warren Zeiders Finds Something Unshakable on New Single “Born to Be Yours”

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Warren Zeiders has been moving fast in 2026, and “Born to Be Yours” keeps that momentum firmly in place. The new single is out now via Warner Records, a swoon-worthy track about the kind of love that no time or circumstance can shake, and it arrives from one of country music’s most compelling young voices at the peak of his momentum.

The song was written by Zeiders alongside an impressive collaborative team: Blake Pendergrass, whose credits include Morgan Wallen and Kenny Chesney; J Kash, known for work with Charlie Puth and Maroon 5; Ali Tamposi, who has written for Kelly Clarkson; and Griff Clawson. The result is a track with real emotional weight, rooted in something bigger than the moment and built to last.

“Born to Be Yours” adds to a 2026 run that has already been extraordinary. The live album ‘Live from the 717′ arrived last month, capturing 21 tracks from Zeiders’ homecoming performance at Hershey, PA’s Giant Center, the closing night of his headlining Relapse, Lies & Betrayal Tour. It’s a document of an artist connecting with his home crowd at the peak of his powers.

To mark the Hershey performance, Zeiders also released ‘Return to the 717’, a 2-part documentary series following his homecoming in full, from visits to his old high school to intimate interviews with the family who supported him throughout his career. It’s the kind of context that makes the music hit differently.

The Warren Zeiders World Tour 2026 is currently underway, taking him across the United States, Australia, and Europe. For a Pennsylvania kid who built his fanbase from the ground up, the scale of where things stand right now is nothing short of remarkable.

Motörhead Unearth Their Origins With Landmark ‘On Parole Sessions’ Box Set

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Before Motörhead became one of the most important bands in rock history, there were the sessions. ‘On Parole Sessions’ is a 4-disc box set via Rhino that pulls back the curtain on those earliest recordings, marking the 50th anniversary of the first-ever Motörhead studio sessions with a package that is essential for anyone serious about understanding where it all began.

The set centres on ‘On Parole’, the band’s first-ever studio recording from 1975, completed in 1976 but held back by United Artists and not released until 1979, by which point it had become their fourth album. It remains the only Motörhead album to feature the original lineup of Lemmy on bass and vocals, Larry Wallis on guitar, and both Phil Taylor and Lucas Fox on drums.

The box set is built for the deep listener. CD1 features a new remix of the original album by Steven Wilson. CDs 2 and 3 deliver 2 discs of extensive session outtakes, from demo versions to sprawling instrumental jams, all mixed by Richard Digby Smith. A Blu-ray rounds out the package with the original album in Atmos, 5.1, stereo, and a flat transfer of the original LP.

The historical significance of these recordings runs deep. Lemmy had just been sacked from Hawkwind when he reconnected with Lucas Fox, and from that reunion Motörhead was born. Purposefully loud, aggressive, and provocative, the band’s earliest songs were short, sharp shocks built for a generation of young people who had nothing in common with the millionaire rock royalty of the era.

The creation of Motörhead was a genuine cultural rupture. Their music and attitude spoke directly to the kids left behind by the oil crisis of ’73, unemployment, and a music industry increasingly disconnected from real life. Nobody looked like them, nobody sounded like them, and nobody else was doing what they were doing. The snaggletooth logo, the leather jackets, the cowboy boots, and the skulls became the uniform of the dispossessed.

That no-compromise, no-prisoners attitude went on to directly influence Dave Grohl, Metallica, Pantera, The Damned, Billy Idol, and countless others who followed. The song “Motörhead” itself made the UK Top 10 in 1981. Lemmy later acknowledged in interviews that ‘On Parole’ was the real first Motörhead album, part of the band’s story regardless of when it reached the stores.

‘On Parole Sessions’ is the definitive document of a moment that changed everything.

CD 1: On Parole – 50th Anniversary Remix (Remixed by Steven Wilson, 2025)

  1. Motorhead
  2. On Parole
  3. Vibrator
  4. Iron Horse / Born To Lose
  5. City Kids
  6. Fools
  7. The Watcher
  8. Leaving Here
  9. Lost Johnny

CD 2: On Parole Sessions Part 1 (Mixed by Richard Digby Smith, 2025)

  1. Motorhead (Instrumental Take 1)
  2. Studio Dialogue 1
  3. City Kids (Take 1)
  4. City Kids (Instrumental Outtake 1)
  5. City Kids (Instrumental Outtake 2)
  6. Studio Dialogue 2
  7. City Kids (Instrumental Outtake 3)
  8. Motorhead (Album Take – Without Bike Intro)
  9. Motorhead (Album Take – Backing Track)
  10. Motorhead (Album Take)
  11. Motorhead (Instrumental Take 2)
  12. Drum Solo
  13. Studio Dialogue 3
  14. Fools (Take 1 – Demo Version)
  15. City Kids (Album Take)
  16. City Kids (Album Take – With Piano)
  17. Studio Dialogue 4
  18. Motorhead (Take 5 – Backing Track)
  19. Motorhead (Take 5 – Without Vocal Overdubs)
  20. Motorhead (Take 5)
  21. Lost Johnny (Album Take)
  22. Leaving Here (Instrumental Take 1)
  23. Leaving Here (Album Take)
  24. Studio Dialogue 5
  25. On Parole (Instrumental Take 1)
  26. On Parole (Instrumental Take 2 With False-Start)
  27. Iron Horse – Born To Lose (Album Take)

CD 3: On Parole Sessions Part 2 (Mixed by Richard Digby Smith, 2025)

  1. Jam / On Parole (Instrumental Jam)
  2. Iron Horse – Born To Lose (Take 4 – Vocal 2)
  3. On Parole (Album Take – Extended Version)
  4. Studio Dialogue 6
  5. The Watcher (Album Take)
  6. Vibrator (Album Take – Without Vibrator)
  7. Vibrator (Album Take – With Vibrator)
  8. Iron Horse – Born To Lose (Instrumental Jam)
  9. Studio Dialogue 7
  10. Iron Horse Born To Lose (Instrumental)
  11. Studio Dialogue 8
  12. Fools (Instrumental Jam)
  13. Fools (Album Take – Extended Version)
  14. Studio Dialogue 9
  15. Motorhead (Instrumental Guitar Riff)

Blu-ray: On Parole Atmos Mix, 5.1 Mix, Stereo Mix & Flat Transfer of Original LP

  1. Motorhead
  2. On Parole
  3. Vibrator
  4. Iron Horse – Born To Lose
  5. City Kids
  6. Fools
  7. The Watcher
  8. Leaving Here
  9. Lost Johnny

Avenged Sevenfold’s Zacky Vengeance Trades Distortion for Dust on Solo Debut ‘Dark Horse’

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Nobody saw this coming, and that’s exactly the point. Zachary Baker, the guitarist and founding member of multi-platinum rock band Avenged Sevenfold known worldwide as Zacky Vengeance, has released his debut solo album ‘Dark Horse’ independently via his own VNGNZ Records, and it lands squarely in alt-country and outlaw territory.

The album arrives alongside new single “Lighthouse,” the second taste from the record following the title track “Dark Horse.” Together the 2 singles sketch the outline of a project built on raw honesty, Americana grit, and the kind of poignant storytelling that has nothing to do with the distortion and spectacle Baker is best known for.

He puts his philosophy plainly. “The beauty is in the imperfections.” That restless spirit drives every track on ‘Dark Horse’, an 11-song collection that blends outlaw influences with deeply personal lyricism, signaling a striking and fully committed evolution from his hard rock roots into something entirely his own.

Baker describes himself as an unlikely storyteller, and ‘Dark Horse’ makes that self-awareness part of its appeal. Driven by the outlaw heroes that shaped him, the album delivers what he calls a raw sermon of honesty, carving out a lane that borrows nothing from his day job and everything from the Americana landscape he clearly loves.

‘Dark Horse’ is available as a limited edition vinyl in gold, pink, or black. An exclusive, limited edition handwritten and signed lyric sheet for “Lighthouse” is also available through his webstore for collectors who want something genuinely personal.

‘Dark Horse’ Tracklist:

  1. Dark Horse
  2. Misfit Hearts
  3. Unlikely Cowboy
  4. I’ll Stop Pretending
  5. Before I Go
  6. Lighthouse
  7. The Storm
  8. Long Highway
  9. Star Crossed
  10. Someday
  11. Fireflies