Fort Myers solo artist JR unpacks the heavy, digital baggage of contemporary isolation on his new country-rock single, "Back In The Day". Spurred by a life-threatening pulmonary embolism, the devoted father and husband found himself staring down mortality. He emerged from that scare with a poignant call for unity, cutting through today's profit-driven tech divisions and political unrest. We exist in a fractured landscape,...

I spent a solid hour this morning watching dust motes suspended in a single shaft of sunlight, my entire nervous system held absolutely captive by Magdi Aboul-Kheir and his devastatingly immersive new album, "Slow Heat". The Germany-based journalist and classically trained pianist usually writes across a massive spectrum of genres, pivoting wildly from trance to late romanticism. Today, he has dropped an ambient, contemporary...