Jen Ash is a singer, songwriter, and composer who has built a reputation for merging R&B and pop genres with her own distinctive musical flare. Her work has been described as having "her own unique melodic flair." Ash was born in Lebanon and reared in France, and she has been on a musical journey that began with her playing professional basketball and has led her...

Robin James Hurt’s “A Song, A Story Told” arrives with a sound you can almost run a thumb over, like worn corduroy. In an age of sterile, diamond-polished productions, this album is a defiantly handmade thing, tracked onto vintage cassette machines. The result is not a flaw, but an ingredient. A faint, persistent hiss breathes alongside the instruments, a ghost in the machine who...