Listening to Nom De Plume’s new album, Circle the Dream, is like finding an old, intricate map for a place that doesn't exist on any globe. This is a record for the motionless traveler, the soul pacing the perimeter of its own skull. Aris Karabelas and Michael Magee have crafted a landscape not of highways and canyons, but of the vast, contradictory terrain behind...

Lil Ellz is facing the music on his latest single, "All I See". The Lithuanian-born hip-hop artist built his craft around a sincere desire to heal his listeners, and here he turns that therapeutic lens squarely onto himself. Billed as an early taste of his forthcoming EP "Love Notes & Lullabies", the track unpacks the bumpy, messy realities of a committed relationship. https://open.spotify.com/track/6viLpAL7w8zBhtbFVz31Bz?si=9_ka0kMOT7azG7Z-v8hE-g Underneath the remorse...