Riding a torrential creative hot streak, San Francisco solo artist Michellar delivers a sprawling exploration of uncontrollable yearning on her newest release, "Can't get you out of my mind". Having been writing songs since the age of fifteen, she’s currently in the middle of a staggering run of output dropping an incredible 22 singles in a furious nine-month stretch. https://open.spotify.com/album/1eCYsckAtR9dx4d7kJsqpi?si=mYcUdvdhQW2yA-yD6OJJ0Q This original single cuts especially deep....

There's an intimacy to the new FREE/MAN release, "The Reconnection EP," that borders on a welcome invasion of personal space. It is the sonic equivalent of someone leaning in, not to share a secret, but to create the silence where your own might finally surface. Charlie Freeman hasn't built a grand cathedral of sound here; he's simply furnished a quiet room with stark, necessary...