Some love songs sit politely in the corner. "When I'm With You" walks in with bright guitars, a racing heart, and that slightly ridiculous confidence people get when a crush rewires their whole day. Nick Pappalardo's new single, takes its spark from his early gigging days in Brooklyn and NYC, where one meeting with a Brooklyn girl gave him the emotional fuel for a full-on...

The worst person to deliver bad news helped create it. Lyons Lane makes that ugly truth the calling card for “You’ll Talk About It!”, its debut EP. The Detroit five-piece places love, loss, obsession and ego at the record’s centre, but opener “Don’t Shoot The Messenger” gives those ideas a proper complication: a man tells another man that his girlfriend cheated on him, yet he...