A new acoustic version of DNigel's song "I Pick U" starring singer Steve Drakes is now available on SoundCloud, and it's time to relax to some smooth rhythm and blues. The acoustic tune this up-and-coming musician performed for us was so moving that it may well win the award for the best love song of the year. This rhythm and blues slow jam will induce...

Listening to Nom De Plume’s new album, Circle the Dream, is like finding an old, intricate map for a place that doesn't exist on any globe. This is a record for the motionless traveler, the soul pacing the perimeter of its own skull. Aris Karabelas and Michael Magee have crafted a landscape not of highways and canyons, but of the vast, contradictory terrain behind...