Christopher Rodriguez, the prolific solo artist from Pueblo, Colorado, challenges our modern distractions head-on with his new single, "Whom Seek Ye". A father of five propelled by sheer biblical conviction, Rodriguez clearly doesn't care about playing nice with pop-music norms. Instead, he occupies an imposing, almost prophetic headspace here to demand we evaluate our deepest spiritual priorities. https://youtu.be/YXJVW5NMRxU When you actually sit with the track, its...

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...