Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

South African Rhythms Meet Gabonese Flair in This Cross-Continental Musical Conversation "241 (Amapiano Version)" After the success of "MBOLO," Bayko & Les OG are back with something that takes familiar parts and makes them sound completely new. "241 (Amapiano Version)" is a great example of how music from different cultures can blend together perfectly, with South African Amapiano's unique rhythmic rhythms meeting afro-pop's lyrical tastes. The music...