M3G’s new single "De-Anchored" arrives with the sudden, unsettling chill of a cold draft in a locked room. The Chippenham singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has spent the last four years quietly honing her craft on local live circuits, but this release forcefully drags us out into the open sea. https://open.spotify.com/track/0qumUCsQRjs9dnN1KnNuBl?si=6d50b88ab85c45e1 It starts with a deceptive kind of comfort. A gentle, rhythmic acoustic chord progression rocks steadily back...

Norway's many fjords are responsible for the birth of a celebrity. Ella Lockert, with her boundless vitality and undoubted skill, has always been a force to be reckoned with from the day she was born. Imagine a little Ella illuminating the stage as the smallest Santa possible in the song "Putti Plutti Pott." Add to that her singing in the children's chorus at the Norwegian Opera,...