Since making her professional debut in 2019, Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, and composer Marc Rangel has been making waves in the music world. But at the early age of 12, she started her path as a creative when she developed a liking for composing music. To her legion of devoted followers, she is just known as Marc Rangel, yet she is one of the most...

Sam Ostler’s new single, “Lights,” then. It unfolds less like a sudden, intrusive glare and more like the slow, determined burn of a really good stage light finally finding its mark after a prolonged blackout. It’s pop, yes, vibrant and undeniably contemporary as advertised – clean lines, clear intentions. Yet, there’s a certain satisfying heft beneath the melodic uplift, a feeling that these notes...