A rubber band ball, meticulously constructed and then unceremoniously dropped, that's what Outside Pedestrian's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" feels like. Not the ball itself, mind you, but the brief, elastic snap of unexpected order being momentarily... let go. We know the Bach tune. It’s a holiday staple, often served up with a side of polite reverence. But here, Anthony Fesmire’s guitar, David Lockeretz’s...

Tahani, the Coleford-based singer-songwriter pulling therapeutic fire from the depths of the Forest of Dean, is stepping fully into the light to deliver her newest anthem, "Don't Come Knocking". She fearlessly channels a lifetime of profound lived trauma from navigating teen motherhood and managing ADHD and Autism, to embracing her LGBTQ+ identity later in life and enduring an absent alcoholic father into an unapologetic...