Alexa Kate is setting the tone for her next musical chapter with "good for long", an upcoming EP expected later this year.  Taking a hands-on approach to the project, the American singer has written or co-written every track, making the collection a personal expression of her artistry and perspective.  Built around shimmering textures and a dreamy mid-tempo groove, she explores the lingering pull of a connection...

Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...