Patrick Costello doesn’t knock politely on “Heart Like a Hurricane”; he kicks the screen door off its hinges and drags you onto the dance floor. The San Francisco multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, composer, and drummer, who also leads The KnabokovCollective, usually roams from political blues rock to bluegrass to rock-jazz-Latin-reggae instrumentals. Here he plants both boots in rockabilly, surf rock, and classic rock and roll. https://open.spotify.com/album/6WzXS5qbr4JBj9ffbsr9TD The...

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...