Monthly Archives: September, 2022

Shelby Lock and the Venezuela Strings Recording Ensemble have joined forces on "A Matter of Time: Perseverancia," a sweeping modern classical single that turns physical gravity into something buoyant. https://open.spotify.com/track/58D1KqkKhCXBnjNEc91JKD?si=Dx9X2tW9Qs-Uwmo_fuLNWA Lock, a conservatory-trained pianist who runs Silver Moon Sound in Santa Cruz, spent years bedridden by Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, literally clawing her way back to the keyboard. Across the hemisphere, the San Cristóbal orchestra guided by conductors...

A glow-up hits differently when the hard years are still visible. Noëlle Rose builds “Born Lucky” around that exact tension. The 12-track soul-pop album takes the phrase “born lucky” and pushes against its easy meaning, putting love, bruises, recovery, and self-belief in the same frame. “In or Out” is part of that larger picture, a chapter about uncertainty in a record that asks what strength looks...