James M. LaRocque, or JML as the hip kids probably call him, dropped "All About Me". It's a classic rock single, which, you know, feels like showing up to a party dressed as a Roman gladiator when everyone else is in jeans. Not a bad thing, necessarily. https://open.spotify.com/track/3xQO9QXBzMyKSCsN10ggfp This isn't about discovering some new profound meaning to life, that's for sure. JML is firmly planted in...

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...