RSAI’s new single, “Let The Good Times Roll,” has waltzed into my listening rotation, and honestly, it feels a bit like finding an unexpected party already in full swing in your own living room. This Moscow-based musician seems intent on manufacturing pure, unadulterated joy, the kind that fizzes up from your toes and demands a bit of a shimmy, whether you’re ready for it...

D.D.R. (Divorced Dad Rock) hits the pavement running on "Blinded By the Blonde: Chapter One", turning the jagged debris of romantic wreckage into pure kinetic energy. The seven-song collection marks the latest outing from Indiana-based novelist and songwriter Stephen Paul, whose philosophy of "universal specificity" treats private heartbreaks as open-source emotional blueprints. Rather than wallowing quietly behind closed doors, Paul channels the soaring melodies...