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...

With his performance of the song, you can immediately see he is good at what he does, and there are no questions about it. reubencmg released his newest track, "I Don't Know," and his energy, flow, and delivery are viewed as top-tier by many rap aficionados. He comes off as a forthright person in this new song, and he makes it plain that with or without...