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...

There are nights when a glance across a party seems to gain the weight of weather. A small look becomes evidence, evidence becomes a case, and the mind, pleased with its own bad carpentry, starts building rooms no one asked to enter. "Oh My God", the new single by Don Drapery from the forthcoming 2026 album "Something Worth Repeating", lives inside that jump from minor...