Earl Patrick pivots sharply away from his usual indie-folk and guitar-driven comfort zones for his newest release, the wildly inventive album "Conditioned By Machines". The Portland, Oregon-based composer, singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist has spent over two decades building a dense, eight-album catalog. Here, however, he entirely flips the script. Feeling that classical flute music too often prioritizes gesture over pure melody, he set out...

MUNZER, the hip-hop wordsmith known for verses that could probably solve quadratic equations, has taken a detour into the pulsating heart of EDM. His latest single, "Supernova," a collaboration with Johnny Bullz from Bullzeye Beats, is… well, it's something. Have you ever tried to explain the color orange to a squirrel? That's kind of how I feel right now. https://open.spotify.com/track/2vKsFUcSEcas5qmMbnHGtf?si=7b4eb2e559844353 This isn't the MUNZER who meticulously...