If you are a lady reading this, I strongly advise you to put this song at the top of your playlist. Use this song as a daily reminder that you are a very special being, if at all feasible. Lionee wants to encourage and motivate you with his new song "Legit," which has uplifting and motivating lyrics that advocate independence, self-sufficiency, and inner strength, particularly...

Seishin Takeno's "Echoes," a sonic postcard from Kanagawa. Nine instrumental pieces, I've been told. Not nine songs, mind you – more like nine shaded windows into a particular kind of quiet. This isn't music that yells; it leans in, like a friend confiding a secret you half-hear on a summer porch. Immediately, you're not so much listening as remembering. Or maybe anticipating. It feels...