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...

Mira Sthira’s compact but powerful EP, “A Fix”, takes us on an anthemic journey through the tumultuous lens of addiction. Fusing emotionally charged themes with infectiously catchy pop sensibilities, this heartfelt two-track release stakes its territory in the vast soundscape between music that moves your feet and music that stirs your soul. https://open.spotify.com/album/6NYfq86ay3vr2YqbZYoODX The first thing to arrest one's attention is undoubtedly Mira Sthira's potent vocals....