Nottingham-based solo artist Euplasia has briefly stepped away from the intense realities of the NHS frontlines to deliver "Hallayoola", a hyper-colorful, foot-stomping indie rock single. After devoting years to fatherhood and public healthcare, you might expect his return to music to carry the heavy, exhausted weight of those environments. Instead, we get pure, unapologetic serotonin. https://open.spotify.com/track/1YJLFmaBVsQkyOzrvWpMOw?si=7de57aa7e02e49ba Following his recent drop "You Wonder" (which will also serve...

To listen to Stevie Hawkins’ take on "A Song For You" is to have a conversation with a ghost in a dimly lit room after the show has ended. Hawkins, long the rhythmic engine for the song's originator Leon Russell, steps from behind the drum kit to the microphone, and the space between these two roles compresses decades into four and a half minutes....