Listening to Bloomfield Machine's new seventeen-track instrumental album, “Copium,” feels a bit like stepping into a terrarium during a quiet downpour. The title itself suggests a kind of modern, knowing self-delusion, the balm we apply just to get by. Yet, the music crafted by Huntington Beach’s Brian Kassan is far too sincere for pure cynicism. This isn’t the sound of giving up; it’s the...

Since making her professional debut in 2019, Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and composer Marc Rangel has been making waves in the music world. But at the early age of 12, she started her path as a creative when she developed a liking for composing music. To her legion of devoted followers, she is just known as Marc Rangel, yet she is one of the most...