To listen to Stevie Hawkins’ take on "A Song For You" is to have a conversation with a ghost in a dimly lit room after the show has ended. Hawkins, long the rhythmic engine for the song's originator Leon Russell, steps from behind the drum kit to the microphone, and the space between these two roles compresses decades into four and a half minutes....

Ghanaians everywhere are still buzzing from the Black Stars' stoppage-time winner over Panama in their World Cup opener, and gospel-soul artist Ara Ẹni has just released her new single "For My Matter" (produced by Daniels Andrew, known as Tbeatz). "For My Matter" is an uplifting Afrobeats gospel song built on a message of faith: no matter what you are facing, God can put His hand...