San Francisco singer-songwriter and producer Jacob Barrett just released a new single, "Maybe", diving headfirst into the agonizing loop of an unanswered call. You know that specific, isolating brand of mental purgatory? The one where you pace around your living room having frantic, phantom arguments with someone who already walked away, hopelessly convinced that turning the situation over in your head will somehow retroactively...

Norway's many fjords are responsible for the birth of a celebrity. Ella Lockert, with her boundless vitality and undoubted skill, has always been a force to be reckoned with from the day she was born. Imagine a little Ella illuminating the stage as the smallest Santa possible in the song "Putti Plutti Pott." Add to that her singing in the children's chorus at the Norwegian Opera,...