Rusty Reid is such an artist that his indie work is based on the folk-country rock tapestry element to emphasize protest and passion narrative. However, his most recent work “ American Villain ” stands as an alarm bell, reminiscent of the infusion between the sixties and today’s political constituency. After a short tenure with the University of Houston, he was under Nashville’s bright lights at 19....

Sometimes healing sounds less like a whisper and more like a storm—a sonic reckoning that blows through the debris of old wounds, scattering the ashes of what no longer belongs. Mi’Kael Chalyce’s “Faded Love” is that storm, a swirling force of fiery assertion and raw self-honesty, blossoming from agony into liberation. Let me say it plainly: if resilience had a sound, it might just...