San Francisco singer-songwriter and producer Jacob Barrett just released a new single, "Maybe", diving headfirst into the agonizing loop of an unanswered call. You know that specific, isolating brand of mental purgatory? The one where you pace around your living room having frantic, phantom arguments with someone who already walked away, hopelessly convinced that turning the situation over in your head will somehow retroactively...

Stephen H. Cumberbatch (also known professionally as C’batch) bridges the past and present on his latest instrumental release, "The Vault 1 (C’batch Smooth / Rough)". Operating out of White Plains, New York, where he runs the independent Stevette Music, Inc. with his wife Yvette, C'batch took a remarkably reflective approach here. By blowing the dust off unresolved concepts from his past *Unfinished Business* era,...