UK songwriter Tim Jackson has released “Can’t Stop The Rain,” the lead offering from his forthcoming full-length album, “Putting In The Hours.” Having recently walked away from a long-held day job to pursue music full-time backed by a fresh global distribution deal via Universal Music the classically trained multi-instrumentalist harnesses decades of classic FM-dial warmth. The song unfurls like an intriguing thought experiment: what...

Sometimes the most honest music comes from the spaces between certainty and doubt. Blake Kelly knows this territory well. The Charlotte-based artist has spent his time moving between basketball courts, college classrooms, and recording studios, collecting experiences that fuel his latest EP, Guidance. "Left or Right" serves as the centrepiece of this four-track collection, and it arrives with the kind of laid-back confidence that suggests Kelly...