Getting ghosted by someone you thought you were building a future with hits different. It is the frantic, exhausting mental gymnastics of trying to figure out what went wrong when the other person refused to leave a manual. You are left holding a bag of mixed emotions, bouncing between intense nostalgia and the kind of anger that makes you want to throw your phone into the...

When the Malaga-based duo My State unleashed "Its Whatever", I half-expected my speakers to start smoking—or at least demand an apology for the sudden surge in voltage. It is rare to hear a track that captures the precise auditory frequency of snapping a pencil in half out of sheer frustration, but here we are. This isn't polite radio fodder. It is high-octane pop-rock that forgot...