Kent Owens, a name that sounds like it should be on a library card next to “Hemingway,” but instead it's on the digital shelf next to my slightly messy playlist. This Cambridge-based creator of soundscapes – I’m resisting calling them songs, but…well – just released “Fade Away,” a single that feels like an open window after a long winter. It’s a soft rock hum...

Based in rural west Cornwall, Nell Davies is an indie musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist. When it comes to her music, she's influenced by artists like the Buzzcocks and Sleater-Kinney, as well as Helen Love and Helen Love and Sleater-Helen Kinney's Love. https://soundcloud.com/nelldavies To depict a story of shattered adolescent passion at an indie disco in the 1990s, her debut track, "Kurt and Courtney," combined punk...