Earl Patrick pivots sharply away from his usual indie-folk and guitar-driven comfort zones for his newest release, the wildly inventive album "Conditioned By Machines". The Portland, Oregon-based composer, singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist has spent over two decades building a dense, eight-album catalog. Here, however, he entirely flips the script. Feeling that classical flute music too often prioritizes gesture over pure melody, he set out...

Bromsgrove's Songbird Kully Bath Offers a Heartfelt Melody of Raw Emotions and Evocative Storytelling in "Rain Falls Inside". The most recent single by Kully Bath, titled "Rain Falls Inside," takes listeners on a harrowing trip that delves deep into the emotional terrain of a witness attempting to grapple with the weight of seeing a loved one move to the other side. Kully is not new to...