Take Jack Horton, a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose path to folk-Americana included stops at Japanese law school, Tokyo piano bars, corporate boardrooms, and government offices. His latest EP, "Imperfections," feels like finding someone's private journal set to music. And that someone happens to write really, really well. The five-song collection opens with "Set Me Free," a piano-driven confession that might surprise anyone expecting typical breakup bitterness. Horton...

Afrobeat musician NyaC has just released his newest track, which is titled "You" How long have you been making music and what attracted you to it? Music has always been something I love since a baby, I remember one thing I used to do was hum melodies on the streets to songs that I had no idea what was being said. I’m talkin' about Bollywood songs...