You can feel the kinetic friction of two decades of shared instinct the moment Hallaballoo launches into their latest album, “Gravity”. The Minneapolis collective James Douglas Gross, Robert Lee, Al Berg, Kyle Primus, David Kittelson, Aaron Short, Max LaRock, Travis Johnston, and Mike Wolfram has long favored living on the outer fringes of the jam-band cosmos. Here, they turn in-studio uncertainty into sharp, melodic...

The best breakup comebacks do not beg for the microphone. They take it, turn up the guitar, and leave the room with the bill. Exzenya’s “B!tch Please” is built for the moment. This 3:17 blues-rock single turns a cheating-husband story away from misery and toward the dry satisfaction of seeing the deal clearly. The person who thought she was stealing a life is handed the less...