When d'Z & Bernadette Dengler (featuring Chris Korzec) unleashed "Shout!", it hit me less like a typical single and more like a sudden, necessary nervous system reset. The track, a collaboration spanning the Netherlands and Austria, carries the dense, sophisticated DNA of Steely Dan but decides to wear it to a raucous block party hosted by The Brand New Heavies. https://open.spotify.com/album/58VJ9SBgyY7Mr1vHP69juG?si=gnsjycqTRkKz57cAMDwRwg d'Z anchors the vessel with...

There are nights when a glance across a party seems to gain the weight of weather. A small look becomes evidence, evidence becomes a case, and the mind, pleased with its own bad carpentry, starts building rooms no one asked to enter. "Oh My God", the new single by Don Drapery from the forthcoming 2026 album "Something Worth Repeating", lives inside that jump from minor...