Good musicians often act as spokespersons for their audiences. Things they can identify with and have a complete emotional investment in. Such a performer is Mariaa Siga. The new single "Daaray Dunya" is out now, and it features her singing about the struggles faced by young people who, despite their bravery, find it hard to make ends meet but never stop believing. The singer stepped out...

Listening to aktenzeichen_T’s new EP, "Midnight Between Lagrange Points", feels less like putting on a record and more like unsealing a classified file. The artist's name, German for "case file number," seems to promise a kind of cold, bureaucratic evidence, and the Leipzig producer delivers—but the subject of this file is the messy, beating heart of human conflict. A case file rendered in kick...