Ultan’s single, "The Tempest," erupts not so much into the room as it does through the floorboards, dragging with it the scent of wet wool and imminent confrontation. This Dublin solo musician, a cartographer of past agonies, presents an energetic rock piece that feels less like a song about history and more like a fragment of it, throbbing and urgent. The main riff careers...

Based in Boston, U.S.A, Munk Duane who is an admired recording artist and film composer, has just dropped his emotionally resonant song “We've Talked About This Before” along with AWAL (Sony Music). Famous for everything he could do, Duane did more than write and perform the song, he was also the producer of it. The mastering was done flawlessly by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden...