The opening minutes with Beth Sarah’s new single, "Love is Dead", feel like watching a beautiful house of cards collapse in meticulously slow motion. It has all the architecture of a polished pop track, yet inside, a structural demolition is taking place. Sarah documents the aftermath of a heartbreak so profound it triggers an existential audit. The true devastation isn’t the loss of a...

Folk music and indie folk have become more mainstream in recent years, to my surprise. The uplifting and soothing vibrations of this clean and global form of music are something we should all have more of in our lives. Two years ago, Lee Leffler (guitars, keyboards, vocals and lyrics), along with Michael Frackleton (drumming and bass), formed the Boston-based band, Dream of a Man...