Simona-Valentina’s new album, “Mirrors & Feathers,” arrived much like an unexpected guest at a tea party – one who’s been through a rather significant ordeal but still manages a fascinating, slightly skewed smile. This London-based songwriter, with roots trailing back to Transylvania, offers a collection that feels less like a polished performance and more like eavesdropping on intensely private, courageous conversations, rendered in dreamy,...

Tahani, the Coleford-based singer-songwriter pulling therapeutic fire from the depths of the Forest of Dean, is stepping fully into the light to deliver her newest anthem, "Don't Come Knocking". She fearlessly channels a lifetime of profound lived trauma from navigating teen motherhood and managing ADHD and Autism, to embracing her LGBTQ+ identity later in life and enduring an absent alcoholic father into an unapologetic...