Sometimes the most honest music comes from the spaces between certainty and doubt. Blake Kelly knows this territory well. The Charlotte-based artist has spent his time moving between basketball courts, college classrooms, and recording studios, collecting experiences that fuel his latest EP, Guidance. "Left or Right" serves as the centrepiece of this four-track collection, and it arrives with the kind of laid-back confidence that suggests Kelly...

Gary Grant Chamberlain has released "Just Go to Church", a country ballad that stares completely unblinking into the void of human tragedy. The Indiana-born singer, songwriter, guitarist, and former police officer took up his craft again to honor the memory of his two-year-old son, Garrison, who perished in a house fire. At a time when the music industry flirts so heavily with artificial intelligence,...