Listening to Cat Cork’s "Simple Song" is a funny thing; the title is a clever piece of misdirection, a plain brown wrapper on a package containing an entire life. This isn't some breezy, three-chord singalong for a lazy afternoon. It’s the sonic equivalent of discovering a shipwright’s meticulously drafted blueprint, detailing the construction of a human spirit from the first plank of childhood to...

Marjorie Huot, a talented artist originally from San Diego who now lives and works in Los Angeles and is known to her expanding legion of fans simply as Kanitha. Kanitha is a musical prodigy from the West Coast whose life story illustrates the importance of perseverance, self-reflection, and the transformational power of art. While the rest of the world was quarantined, she made the conscious...