Allyson Whitmell's "Crack in My Window" arrived in my inbox, and honestly, my first thought was, "Is this the soundtrack to a particularly poignant cat food commercial?" But then, of course – because life loves a good plot twist – it wasn't. https://open.spotify.com/album/7lNXzGxooWZNRYKxSusY3q?si=isdinrQoRwi-yVmYTMH4fA It is, in reality, Whitmell taking a swan dive into the murky waters of nostalgia, grief, and that weird feeling you get when...

Some people enter your life and rearrange the furniture in your head. Lanusa’s “Jupiter” knows that feeling well. The 2026 indie folk and alternative rock single uses the planet’s gravitational force to describe a person whose presence can make everyone nearby feel off-course. It is dreamy, groove-driven, and quietly uneasy, a song about attraction that keeps checking the cost of giving another person too much influence. Lanusa...