The world desperately needed more excellent, beautiful songs like these; therefore, their arrival here couldn't have come at a better moment. To what do you attribute our success? The music video for the song "Love Maria" was created by Crazy Loop, and it is intended to make you feel as good as the song does. The song aspires to become the next anthem of popular culture,...

Ava Valianti represents something increasingly rare in contemporary music: genuine precocity without artifice. This Massachusetts artist, who is only fifteen years old, handles general themes with a level of emotional depth that is shocking. She shows that youth can bring out the best in complicated human experiences, rather than hiding them. "Distant," her sixth single, functions as a sonic archaeology of friendship's dissolution. The track excavates layers...