Award-winning artist Rehya Stevens beckons listeners to peel off the soundtrack of Christmas as Christmas sets in with her new single entitled “Be My Baby By Christmas Night,” which is released from her original Christmas album “Santa’s Takin’ Over the Town.” Music runs in the veins of Rehya Stevens, and she was born into an already-established musical family. Her father, Peter Martin, was a world-renowned pianist...

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...