Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

Proklaim is a rapper and poet who has taken the scene by storm with his unique style and everlasting enthusiasm for the art form. He is considered to be one of the most promising voices in the world of hip-hop. This Namibian musician, who was born Alexander Kiremire, has been mesmerizing listeners with his self-assured lyrics, rhythmic rhythms, and forceful delivery, and he is swiftly...