When a German-born songwriter in his sixties filters his life’s rear-view mirror through authentic American roots music, you get The Cumberland River Project and the profoundly human new EP, "Meet Me In The Rain". Frank Renfordt acts as the absolute sole architect here. He is singing, writing, producing, and physically wrapping his hands around the acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, bass, mandolin, keys, and drum...

Nigerian artist Boysarm makes romantic surrender sound completely effortless on his radiant new single, "I Go Lie For You". Signed to Lestat Entertainment while balancing life as a University of Lagos undergraduate, the solo musician filters contemporary Afrobeats through classic Highlife warmth and what he coins his "Elite Awakening Sounds." The track pivots on everyday Lagos street parlance: the rhetorical question "I Go Lie...