ErickOscar confronts generations of inherited silence head-on in his new single, “Say What I Feel.” A Panamanian-born, U.S.-based singer-songwriter and producer with over three decades of musical experience, ErickOscar leans into contemporary country and heart-on-sleeve storytelling to stage a quiet domestic revolution. Written for his wife, the track directly challenges the stoic, emotionally restrained households so many grow up in, insisting that familial devotion...

Some songs are like a time machine. You press play, and suddenly you’re somewhere else, some other time. Maybe it’s a smoky bar in the 1970s, a sweaty punk club in the 80s, or, in the case of “Oh Denise,” the new single from Ken Woods and The Old Blue Gang, a dusty dancehall on the outskirts of Austin, Texas, sometime in the not-too-distant past. The...