This kind of music has the potential to reach a wide audience, therefore you shouldn't settle for anything less than extraordinary performance and an impressive level of energy. A reminder of the power of music to forge relationships across oceans and continents, "Ole" features the powerful vocals of CCT Beats' recruits Jolly B and Danson. It is the song's unique combination of English and Tswana, a...

Jon Gold’s new single, "Lullaby for a Dream," is an act of gorgeous disorientation. You see the name—a pianist rooted in the intricate soils of jazz—and you prepare for one thing, but what arrives is a mist-laden skiff drifting from an entirely different shore. Gold, a Delaware musician, has composed a piece of British-Gaelic folk, and the cognitive dissonance is half the immediate magic....