Ramblerman’s new single "Midday Melancholy" doesn’t crash into your day; it seeps in, like the specific quality of light that pools on the floor when you've decided to stay inside. It’s here that Stephen Dobson tunes into a frequency of beautiful, stubborn inertia, a sound that feels both warm as a sunbeam and heavy as the dust motes dancing in it. The song understands...

With this song, American rapper Frank Black takes a more thoughtful and aware style, rapping about topics that many people from all backgrounds may connect to. The new song "Peaks and Valleys" demonstrates his true interest in conscious matters, and his ability to use his words to highlight critical societal and artistic concerns distinguishes him as an artist with a mission. His songwriting is both interesting...