Earl Patrick pivots sharply away from his usual indie-folk and guitar-driven comfort zones for his newest release, the wildly inventive album "Conditioned By Machines". The Portland, Oregon-based composer, singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist has spent over two decades building a dense, eight-album catalog. Here, however, he entirely flips the script. Feeling that classical flute music too often prioritizes gesture over pure melody, he set out...

If you want to be the best man for someone, Kayta Burns is calling you. What are you waiting for? Maybe you'd be a good fit for that. The artiste from Dubai's new song "Best Man" is a touching tribute to the power of family and love that lasts a lifetime. In this song, she sings of a friendship in which the other person serves as...