Geoff Westen’s album, “Music For My Friends”, thumps onto the scene like a dropped box of heavy disco balls – all shiny potential energy and the slight threat of chaos. It aims for that classic pop song euphoria, the kind designed to rattle car speakers and fuel late-night dance floors, an "aural assault" as Westen puts it. And it does pulse with energy, a...

Multidisciplinary artist Emily Daccarett maps out the strange, beautiful geography of grief and eternal devotion on her new two-track EP, "Another World". https://open.spotify.com/album/6nmbMkULCfCwQWtUitUnEm?si=QCMOCzaMQSmQvGjj5TE5JA We constantly talk about losing people, but we rarely discuss where that massive, suddenly homeless love is supposed to go. Daccarett, an artist who fuses couture training with a sharp cinematic vision, gives that immense emotion a pulsating, alternative-pop body. Written after the...