The singer-songwriter Mary Strand embraces her raw, garage rock roots on this bold holiday anthem "I Wanna Believe". The American musician and author Mary Strand hails from Minneapolis and can write songs, books, and play the guitar. Mary Strand, who used to be a lawyer but is now a rock singer, drops a fun punk blast with her new song "I Wanna Believe." Strand's first record,...

Angelo Ceriani's new album, "Lofi Weather," arrives not with a bang, but like a slow-moving front rolling in off Lake Maggiore, where I imagine his Somma Lombardo studio might catch the changing light. These ten instrumental pieces, curated from two decades of Ceriani simply making music (1995-2015, no less!), feel less like a planned collection and more like leafing through someone’s sonic sketchbook, found...