The Ukrainian-American artist Kelsie Kimberlin has crafted a musical confession that cuts through the noise with its raw honesty and polished production. Kimberlin, who recently received both the United Nations Humanitarian Award and the St. George's Royal Medal of Honor from King Charles for her support of Ukraine, brings her activist spirit into her art. She wrote the song while she was shooting a movie about...

Margate-based “Hyper-Country” artist Jack Goldstein navigates systemic erasure on his staggering new single, "Falling Off The Earth." Sifting through the wreckage of the 1980s American farming crisis and recalling trips to his sister’s farm, Goldstein constructs a narrative around the brutal collapse of traditional rural livelihoods. It traces a devastating line from physical displacement to a sprawling, cosmic detachment, leaving its subjects abandoned to...