Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

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...