Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

Guitarist Craig Douglas Miller's Blueburst: A Manifesto of Musings from a 20-Year Musical Sabbatical. Craig Douglas Miller and Marty Willson-Piper are at the forefront of an old-wave resurgence within the sphere of alternative music. Miller's career stalled after big labels lost interest in the star guitarist and singer from the '90s band "The Reach" After two decades of not writing anything new, he finally sought help...