The worst person to deliver bad news helped create it. Lyons Lane makes that ugly truth the calling card for “You’ll Talk About It!”, its debut EP. The Detroit five-piece places love, loss, obsession and ego at the record’s centre, but opener “Don’t Shoot The Messenger” gives those ideas a proper complication: a man tells another man that his girlfriend cheated on him, yet he...

Ghana's Revolutionary Voice Danqua Transforms Afrobeat Through Spiritual Innovation. Danqua, emerging from the vibrant streets of Accra, doesn't just participate in Ghana's musical conversation—he transforms it. In his ground-breaking piece "Orison," Danqua makes both a musical and a spiritual statement. The structure of the track's percussion forms a complicated beat that pulls listeners into its gravitational field. Not only is this piece technically impressive, but there is...