CJ Jarratt, a solo purveyor of that early 2000s pop-punk sound we all secretly still crank up in our cars, has just dropped a new single, "Bad For My Teeth." And honestly? It feels like finding a half-melted candy bar in the pocket of your favorite old hoodie – sweet, familiar, and probably not very good for you, but you're going to devour it...

DBsock, the artistic moniker of Mingwei Gao, arrives not with a gentle announcement, but with a complex, shifting statement in her debut EP, "The Journey". The songs on this album do not really feel like easy music. Instead, they feel more like a complicated guide that shows the way through internal territories. Gao is a singer, musician, producer, and creator who works in Los Angeles and...