With his sprawling album "Live, Learn, and Love Without Regets", Panamanian-born, longtime U.S. songwriter ErickOscar offers a candid, stylistically unruly chronicle of a life examined in full color. A bilingual acoustic guitarist and hands-on producer, he approaches music less like an industry strategist and more like a backyard philosopher assembling a family scrapbook from whatever materials happen to be within reach. https://open.spotify.com/album/77nWuQDCVqX4bJwqYf1yqs?si=k-3PZ7ZVRYuzhC4nj8uahg The collection refuses to...

The fiercely independent, Idaho-raised rapper nick! channels a deeply overstimulated, restless frequency on his new EP, "GEEKED!". Born in 2006 and building a fervent following entirely without industry co-signs, he occupies an interesting lane in new-wave underground hip-hop. His music sounds precisely like the brain chemistry of an internet-raised creative processing the blinding speed of newfound success. He writes and produces melodic, hard-hitting rap...