Reaven's latest offering, "Something To Remember," barrels in like a sunbeam after a week of rain, a potent shot of pop-rock that dares you to feel something. It's a single, a little burst of focused energy rather than a sprawling landscape, and it gets straight to the point, doesn't waste time building up to anything, because there is so much to embrace today, that...

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...