On his new album "Social Touch", Chicago vocalist and songwriter Sacha Mullin navigates the fragile geography between wanting to be seen and dreading the scrutiny. Mullin has spent years working across the intersections of art-rock, jazz, and experimental performance, but here he bends those intricate instincts into immediate, luminous pop forms. His voice remains the centerpiece: an agile, commanding instrument that glides from a...

Listening to Shotgun Driver’s new EP, “Jester Privileges”, is like finding a glitter bomb in a padded cell. The four songs present a disorienting, strangely compelling contradiction. On the surface, the alt-pop framework pulses with an upbeat, almost defiant energy; this is the slick, rock-tinged anxiety of a Machine Gun Kelly track built for open-road brooding. But beneath it, the narrative, carried by those...