Some doors do not close with a slam. They remain half-open, daring a person to walk back through them after the room behind them has grown small and airless. The past can be persuasive that way. It offers familiar furniture, old names, a version of comfort that asks too much in return. "Backwards, Baby," the latest single from Caitlin Kent-Halliday, begins from that human pressure...

Mystic Muse's "Never Dating Someone Called Emilio Again" - Raw Emotion Meets Artistic Liberation In the independent music scene, where style and sincerity often go head-to-head, French singer Mystic Muse gives something incredibly real. She did not make her new single "Never Dating Someone Called Emilio Again" in a million dollar studio; she did it all by herself, and it is even stronger for it. This song...