Crozier's new single, "The Dream," has arrived, and it’s rather like finding a surprisingly vibrant, yet faintly melancholy, postcard tucked inside an old, dog-eared travel guide for a country that might not even exist anymore. There’s an undeniable jauntiness to its classic rock bones – you can hear the phantom limb of a Wilbury shuffle in its gait, perhaps a smidge of early Kinks-ian...

Rachael Sage & The Sequins have made “Under My Canopy,” an album billed as “an intimate musical refuge,” and I spent the first few songs trying to decide whether that was a promise or an invitation. By the third track, I had stopped deciding and simply moved in. https://open.spotify.com/album/5jJyGuJpCEgGuKgVkvgGER Sage is a lot of things at once: NYC-based folk-pop artist, activist, producer, visual artist, former New...