Robin James Hurt’s “A Song, A Story Told” arrives with a sound you can almost run a thumb over, like worn corduroy. In an age of sterile, diamond-polished productions, this album is a defiantly handmade thing, tracked onto vintage cassette machines. The result is not a flaw, but an ingredient. A faint, persistent hiss breathes alongside the instruments, a ghost in the machine who...

Liberati's 'Famous': A Satirical Pop Anthem Shaking Up the Sound Waves. Liberati is a musician and composer from Malibu, California, who has achieved international success. He has amassed an amazing 6,000 song placements across television shows, films, and other multimedia platforms with his distinctive voice and unique pop songs. The new song by Liberati is called "Famous," and it's a scathing critique of our culture's fixation with...