It’s strange to think about silence as a form of noise, isn’t it? The kind that fills a room after you've heard something so emotionally dense, anything else feels obnoxious. That’s the type of quiet that "Not Turning Back" by Baylee Dowling leaves behind. It’s not the silence of emptiness, but the kind where something just sank deep into your chest, and you need...

Samantha Mora’s “Luto” arrived like a half-remembered dream, a wisp of smoke curling from a candle just extinguished. It's not a song to shout from rooftops; it's something you feel in the space between your breaths. Her voice is so smooth, a rich velvet you could lose yourself in. You'd almost think it could just glide across the cumbia rhythms like a hummingbird over...