Ellakate brings Atlanta's heartbeat to the world of alternative pop with her latest single. An emerging artist whose sound is prepared to push and redefine the traditional confines of the alternative pop genre was born in Atlanta, the city that gives her name to the artist's hometown. Ella Greenbaum, better known by her evocative stage name Ellakate, has recently published a compelling musical piece that goes...

A rubber band ball, meticulously constructed and then unceremoniously dropped, that's what Outside Pedestrian's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" feels like. Not the ball itself, mind you, but the brief, elastic snap of unexpected order being momentarily... let go. We know the Bach tune. It’s a holiday staple, often served up with a side of polite reverence. But here, Anthony Fesmire’s guitar, David Lockeretz’s...