The world desperately needed more excellent, beautiful songs like these; therefore, their arrival here couldn't have come at a better moment. To what do you attribute our success? The music video for the song "Love Maria" was created by Crazy Loop, and it is intended to make you feel as good as the song does. The song aspires to become the next anthem of popular culture,...

I spent a solid hour this morning watching dust motes suspended in a single shaft of sunlight, my entire nervous system held absolutely captive by Magdi Aboul-Kheir and his devastatingly immersive new album, "Slow Heat". The Germany-based journalist and classically trained pianist usually writes across a massive spectrum of genres, pivoting wildly from trance to late romanticism. Today, he has dropped an ambient, contemporary...