Independent Los Angeles artist Fiore has dropped her new single "Baccarat Rouge", a seductive arrival ahead of her upcoming debut EP, "Heart on Fire". Originally from Dana Point, Fiore specializes in dragging our deeply internalized emotions out into the open, mapping the quiet things we feel while merely surviving the day. https://open.spotify.com/track/2Vjb2MrEoEwwYYeFEMLy0b?si=ngbV4UBkQjSbPlAtyPuMWQ She leans heavily into alternative pop and dark R&B on this outing. A thick,...

A rubber band ball, meticulously constructed and then unceremoniously dropped, that's what Outside Pedestrian's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" feels like. Not the ball itself, mind you, but the brief, elastic snap of unexpected order being momentarily... let go. We know the Bach tune. It’s a holiday staple, often served up with a side of polite reverence. But here, Anthony Fesmire’s guitar, David Lockeretz’s...