TC TENET’s new single, “Animals,” arrives with the sort of confident thud you’d expect from a well-aimed Doc Marten hitting a hollow stage. This isn't background music for tidying your sock drawer, unless your sock drawer is a portal to a field at 3 AM where everyone’s forgotten their own name but remembers every chord. It’s a full-throated roar into the now, a soundtrack...

The Texas country and Americana singer-songwriter Celeste Marie Wilson frames resilience, sisterhood, and southern poetry with a voice rooted in Gulf Coast memory. There are trees in Southern music that do far heavier work than scenery. Oaks keep family secrets. Pines mark county roads. Willows bend, grieve, shade, and somehow remain. In “Willow,” Celeste Marie Wilson reaches for that image with the calm nerve of a...