ErickOscar lays his life bare on "Two Flags, One Heart", constructing an earnest, home-spun tapestry of Americana that carries thirty-four years of dual citizenship in its veins. Originally from Panama and long settled in the United States, Oscar operates as a self-contained musical architect writing, strumming, and arranging his own material with an earthy, patient devotion. Country music has forever traded in tales of...

The Charlotte artist Billy Chuck Da Goat turns a private self-audit into a gripping hip-hop and southern soul moment built for repeat plays. Some records hit hardest when they stop pointing fingers and start pointing inward. That is the charge running through “Mirror To Myself,” the new single from Charlotte artist Billy Chuck Da Goat. It has the feel of a late-night mental reset, the kind...