Near Death Experience's single, "Shake," arrived not so much as music, but as a sudden, urgent insistence. It’s London psych-rock-soul alright, but brewed with something fiercely immediate, demanding attention like a ringing telephone in an empty room. The core quartet – Ian Whiteling guiding the trip with vocals and guitar fuzz, Joshua Van Ness laying down a heartbeat that feels both frantic and locked-in,...

Nashville's Rising Star Jagger Whitaker Strikes a Chord with Authenticity and Musical Mastery "If I Know You" From the Nashville, Tennessee backyard to the country music forefront, a bright star named Jagger Whitaker shines, inevitably selling the craft of making music to his father, who taught him. Whitaker has long time been a fan of country rock music and his musical career brought him to this...