The Texas country and Americana singer-songwriter Celeste Marie Wilson frames resilience, sisterhood, and southern poetry with a voice rooted in Gulf Coast memory. There are trees in Southern music that do far heavier work than scenery. Oaks keep family secrets. Pines mark county roads. Willows bend, grieve, shade, and somehow remain. In “Willow,” Celeste Marie Wilson reaches for that image with the calm nerve of a...

Maraad’s new album, “BUFF”, is a strange and beautiful paradox, an object forged in the very fire it’s meant to protect you from. Each track is presented as a "buff," a bit of protective magic for the spirit, but the energy humming underneath feels less like a polished shield and more like the faint, determined glow around a figure in a centuries-old altarpiece—somehow both...