A house can be made from wood, stone, tin, red soil, or memory. In music, it can also be made from strings, shared breath, and the small pauses that let one culture listen to another without rushing to answer. Karoo's debut EP, "Casa", carries that feeling with quiet confidence. The title points toward home, but the record treats home as a living idea rather than...

Laji George just dropped his new single, "This Is My World," and it hits like a sudden, heavy rainstorm cracking open a stifling afternoon. The New York City-based singer-songwriter, usually found commanding massive festival stages as the frontman for Pseutopia, strips away the grand sheen here to deliver something thrillingly unpolished. https://open.spotify.com/track/32zzsQsR13YQhzjbTA6wid There is absolutely no modern digital gloss suffocating this alt-rock power ballad. Instead, we...