Garrett Anthony Rice knows that Christmas wears two faces, and on his new single “As Magic As The Snow,” he refuses to hide either one. The Greystones, Co. Wicklow singer-songwriter builds from classic British pop instincts, borrowing the melodic genius of John Lennon and the whimsical streak of Syd Barrett, then filtering both through something far more private. https://open.spotify.com/track/2sA8J7TYWq9pg0ChohfMWl The story at its centre is devastating...

The Alessandro Savino Project serves up a new single, “SORRY,” and it arrives feeling less like a song and more like a strange, beautiful confession made under the low-wattage glow of a bar sign after everyone else has gone home. The word itself is so insufficient, isn't it? A pebble of a word meant to fill a canyon. But this track isn't the pebble;...