When the Ukrainian alternative pop singer Janeuary launches into her latest single "Undress My Heart", you immediately feel an involuntary need to check if your own emotional deadbolts are securely fastened. Unzipping a jacket or dropping a shirt to the floor is purely mechanical. It is the easy, predictable choreography of human attraction. Peeling back the ego to let another human actually gaze upon...

It takes a certain kind of ideological whiplash to shift from navigating corporate property deals to aggressively narrating the downfall of humanity, but at 74, Stephen Wicks introduces his single "The Doomsday Clock" with the blazing clarity of someone watching civilization slip off the edge. https://open.spotify.com/track/70JffY8Y63JRdjn98A1fMB?si=xK17Z-ERQO-o2he9oKPX-g The Hertford-based entrepreneur-turned-songwriter channels his late-in-life reinvention to confront a cocktail of existential horrors: geopolitical collapse, climate crisis, unchecked AI,...