Some songs arrive like warnings from streets that have already learned the smell of rain on hot concrete. Before the first shout fully settles, there is a sense that bodies are gathering, feet are refusing to move, and some private fear has been pushed into daylight. Total Reverends build that pressure into 'The Revolution Is Inevitable', a single that treats rock music as a public...

Tomasz Kowalczyk and Benita Rose have delivered something beautifully startling with their collaborative album, "Benita Rose Plays Tomasz Kowalczyk". It takes a staggering amount of vulnerability to hand the literal blueprint of your psyche to another human being. Yet, here we have Kowalczyk, a prolific Polish composer, trusting the world-renowned American concert pianist Rose to excavate his mind and translate his wordless, heavily emotional...