Robin James Hurt’s “A Song, A Story Told” arrives with a sound you can almost run a thumb over, like worn corduroy. In an age of sterile, diamond-polished productions, this album is a defiantly handmade thing, tracked onto vintage cassette machines. The result is not a flaw, but an ingredient. A faint, persistent hiss breathes alongside the instruments, a ghost in the machine who...

Ghanaian rapper, Kwesi Slay is back with a new song called "TUUTU DOO." It's a song that never stops encouraging people to keep going and work hard. Right from the first lyric, it grabs your attention and makes you feel like someone is struggling for their place in the world. The title comes from Ghanaian street slang and stands for intensity, drive, and movement, which Slay...