Dev London's new single, “Spell On Me,” slid into my listening queue, and frankly, the title felt less like an invitation and more like a diagnosis. This rising Manteca artist crafts a sound here – an R&B/Pop fusion – that's as smooth as it is unsettling, like finding a perfectly polished stone that hums with a faint, troubling energy. https://open.spotify.com/track/73XvCea2NkVBeTPEhqoTvj?si=jXi6lrm_TVukGsDhbjcMfw The track unpacks the exquisite torture...

There are songs that sound like a place, and then there’s Neil Potter’s "Música El Idioma Del Amor," which sounds like a specific time of day in a specific place you’ve never been. It’s a curious creation, a sonic postcard from a parallel-universe Seville where the flamenco guitarist and the local rock progressive have decided to build something new on a foundation of pure...