Sound Liberation’s “Elegy” isn’t so much an album as it is an unbolting of several sonic cages, letting the inhabitants mingle, argue, and eventually, find a strange, compelling harmony. Gene Pritsker and his rotating ensemble are, as ever, on a crusade against the "segregation of sound vibration," and here, their weapon of choice is grief, remembrance, and an absolutely defiant refusal to sit still...

Persian-American singer-songwriter SHAB has returned with her euphoric new single, "Best Of All Time," an electropop celebration that treats shared joy as an act of absolute courage. Having escaped fundamentalism in Iran as a child, she carries an undercurrent of hard-won resilience into modern club music, using her platform to champion women’s freedom while crafting soaring disco-pop escapism. https://open.spotify.com/track/3ACO7jZT1W8OlLSHmw20io?si=apcuVdMySGKO4PvMBoy_mg The track wastes no time finding its...