Listening to Arnold J.’s new single, "Muddy Waters," isn't quite like anything else swirling around right now. It arrives with the gentle insistence of incoming tide, pulling you into its specific gravity. Arnold J., Ghanaian-born and now Canada-based, weaves a sound tagged as alt-country and folk, but those labels feel thin, like trying to contain smoke. There’s earthiness, sure, but his soulful vocal lines...

The new EP "Live at the Outlier Inn" by Shane Rennison who is an American born singer-songwriter with roots from upstate New York in the middle of the Catskills. He rejuvenates his vigour in the indie rocks and contemporary pop genres with this. The recording of this ep took place at Outlier Inn Studio in Mountaindale, New York, and was the biggest change in his...