Austin-based artist Hoxsey arrives with "Harvest Moon Sessions", an ambitious, unpredictable collection that catches the exact chill of early autumn when the sun sinks early and the wind carries an unsettling bite. It sidesteps seasonal kitsch entirely. Instead of manufactured haunted-house theatrics, the record confronts mortality, folklore, and the strange detritus of human memory by wandering through genres like an explorer traversing an overgrown...

Because we all struggle with the same things, we take it for granted that music will be easy to understand. A new song by Dre Carlan titled "Hope" was just released recently. In it, he recounts some of the more sensitive incidents that have occurred in his life. His parents struggled with their health while raising him as an only child, and it is the subject...