North Carolina heavy rock trio Kinsley just unleashed their new EP "Humans", and I have spent the better part of the morning trying to emotionally recalibrate. Crafted by lifelong childhood friends Adam Staley, Christopher Jones, and Christopher Neil Adkins, this release leans heavily into the psychological framework of Carl Jung. It boldly collides the suffocating weight of aging, mortality, and mental collapse against the...

There are songs that sound like a place, and then there’s Neil Potter’s "Música El Idioma Del Amor," which sounds like a specific time of day in a specific place you’ve never been. It’s a curious creation, a sonic postcard from a parallel-universe Seville where the flamenco guitarist and the local rock progressive have decided to build something new on a foundation of pure...