The South African indie artist meelu flips the script on mourning, delivering a drum and bass infused folk track that makes letting go feel like a celebration. You know that specific feeling when you are standing in the middle of a crowded room, the bass is vibrating through the floorboards, and suddenly you are hit with a memory so sharp it knocks the wind out...

Matthew Phillips, the two-time San Diego Music Award-winning independent artist, takes up arms against our modern era's disposable romance on his new single, "Battlefield of Love." We live in an age where discarding people is terrifyingly easy. Phillips rejects that entirely. Writing, playing guitar, and performing with a fierce sense of defiance, he blends alternative rock urgency with sprawling cinematic textures to build a...