Dev London's new single, “Spell On Me,” slid into my listening queue, and frankly, the title felt less like an invitation and more like a diagnosis. This rising Manteca artist crafts a sound here – an R&B/Pop fusion – that's as smooth as it is unsettling, like finding a perfectly polished stone that hums with a faint, troubling energy. https://open.spotify.com/track/73XvCea2NkVBeTPEhqoTvj?si=jXi6lrm_TVukGsDhbjcMfw The track unpacks the exquisite torture...

Geoff Westen’s album, “Music For My Friends”, thumps onto the scene like a dropped box of heavy disco balls – all shiny potential energy and the slight threat of chaos. It aims for that classic pop song euphoria, the kind designed to rattle car speakers and fuel late-night dance floors, an "aural assault" as Westen puts it. And it does pulse with energy, a...