On his urgent new single "La La Land," Frankfort blues-rock singer-songwriter Trail Hawk confronts modern delusion with gravel in his throat and dirt under his fingernails. Dubbed "The True Asphalt Poet," the Kentucky musician draws straight from lived experience surviving homelessness, navigating recovery, and enduring the devastating loss of his son to addiction. He uses that background not to lecture, but to map the...

Listening to Nom De Plume’s new album, Circle the Dream, is like finding an old, intricate map for a place that doesn't exist on any globe. This is a record for the motionless traveler, the soul pacing the perimeter of its own skull. Aris Karabelas and Michael Magee have crafted a landscape not of highways and canyons, but of the vast, contradictory terrain behind...