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...

Emerging Indie Pop Sensation Alexa Perez Delivers a Deeply Personal EP That Captures the Essence of Young Adulthood In "Dear Future Me" An important chapter of Alexa Perez's musical career is her recent EP "Dear Future Me", which mixes diary-like introspection with indie pop. The EP is evidence of Alexa Perez's maturity as an artist and a person. In the last four years, Alexa Perez has become...