Indie-Folk Sensation Ava Valianti Explores Unrequited Love with Poignant Storytelling "January" New music from Ava Valianti called "January" is out now. "January" shows how sad it can be to love someone from afar when you know they'd be happier with someone else. Ava Valianti is a great singer, songwriter, and producer, and her voice is very strong. Valianti, who is from Massachusetts, is still making big...

Sam Lewis’s "Juan Garcia" isn’t a song that arrives with a fanfare; it feels more like a figure glimpsed in the twilight, carrying an invisible weight, and you instinctively lean in. Lewis, an artist who often paints with warmer, feel-good Americana hues, here offers something starker, a ballad stripped to its bones, letting his soul-stirring vocals do the heavy lifting – and heavens, do...