Andy Smythe's Piano-Driven Collaboration "The Drought Is Coming" with Violinist Beatrice Limonti Transforms Climate Crisis into Haunting Musical Statement When you listen to music, you feel like the artist is right next to you, telling you secrets that only they can hear. Andy Smythe, on the other hand, does not whisper. He speaks with passion, sings with energy, and writes songs that stay with you...

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...