One of the newest names to emerge from the French music scene is Jan Youri, a singer, songwriter, and composer from Grenoble. France has always been known for its incredible music scene, producing some of the most legendary musicians of all time. What sets Jan Youri apart from other up-and-coming musicians is her unique musical chords and voice. Even though she's just beginning her career in...

Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...