With his globe-trotting new EP "Level Up", Recife-born producer and artist Krey Galin treats personal triumph as an open-source frequency meant to cross borders without passport control. Operating between Brazil and the United States under Elemental Entertainment Inc., Galin assembles an international circle of songwriters and studio collaborators to map out a single, unyielding obsession: the intoxicating certainty that you are bound for greatness,...

Flavor Wave’s single, “The Optimist,” arrived less like a declaration and more like someone tentatively drawing back a dusty curtain on a grey afternoon. From West Chester, PA, these five lifelong friends – Kyle Loedel (vocals, lyrics), Matthew Stretch (lead guitar), Patrick Blair (rhythm guitar), Noah Montgomery (bass), and Joshua Speaker (performer/drums) – typically tread alternative rock paths nodding to influences like The Strokes....