Listening to the opening of Michellar’s "Truth Over Lies" is like being dropped mid-sentence into a conversation you desperately need to hear. This track, which features Frankie El, doesn't ease you in; it puts you on the "shaky ground" it sings about, a state of profound vertigo that reminds me of the low, anxious hum an old CRT television used to make just before...

Lil Ellz is facing the music on his latest single, "All I See". The Lithuanian-born hip-hop artist built his craft around a sincere desire to heal his listeners, and here he turns that therapeutic lens squarely onto himself. Billed as an early taste of his forthcoming EP "Love Notes & Lullabies", the track unpacks the bumpy, messy realities of a committed relationship. https://open.spotify.com/track/6viLpAL7w8zBhtbFVz31Bz?si=9_ka0kMOT7azG7Z-v8hE-g Underneath the remorse...