Listening to Elena C. Lockleis’s new single, “Mind - Vs. - Heart,” feels like witnessing a civil war fought entirely within a single nervous system. The sound is an intimate knot of pop architecture, the kind Julia Michaels patents in her sleep, where a confession arrives not as a ballad but as a skittish, rhythm-driven pulse. You feel the frantic heartbeat right there in...

Scott Storch has collaborated with some of the most successful musicians in the world, such as Beyoncé, Dr. Dre, and Christina Aguilera, to mention just a few. To even get his attention, much alone his time and skill, is a significant accomplishment in and of itself. However, this is just what Fior, a promising young artist from Miami, has been able to do. https://soundcloud.com/iamfior Independent musician Fior...