Yung Fume and King Yanz have made something truly special with "Ray." It is like seeing two great artists work together on the same painting, each adding their own unique brushstrokes to make something that neither could have done on their own. King Yanz, an artist with Congolese roots who was born in Finland, has been making waves with his conscious hip-hop style. He...

Shawn Brown’s EP, "Into the Furious Light," doesn’t slip quietly into the stream of modern indie-folk releases; it instead cups its hands around your soul like you’re a candle in danger of flickering out. The Portland troubadour crafts songs that feel like fragments of conversations—maybe ones you walked in on too late or letters unsent to someone dear but no longer near. You’re never...