Fresh off landing her first major award nomination, Tower is back with new music. The Ghanaian alternative R&B singer has released "FALLIN," her third single of the year and a clear signal that her breakout run is far from slowing down. The song arrives on the heels of her AFRIMMA “Rising Star” nomination. For an artist barely a year into her recording career, the timing...

Take Jack Horton, a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose path to folk-Americana included stops at Japanese law school, Tokyo piano bars, corporate boardrooms, and government offices. His latest EP, "Imperfections," feels like finding someone's private journal set to music. And that someone happens to write really, really well. The five-song collection opens with "Set Me Free," a piano-driven confession that might surprise anyone expecting typical breakup bitterness. Horton...