Surviving three brain surgeries and having to relearn how to walk would permanently stall almost any trajectory, but for Suriname-born, Tampa Bay-based Mr.D.Tunes, it was the exact friction needed to spark his contemplative new single, "Y You." The former junior Olympic swimmer turned youth mentor and Christian Hip-Hop artist channels his grim medical odds into an intensely honest rhythmic testimony. https://open.spotify.com/album/7b4Gn3WBmEYjw3p1bmCTiJ?si=HMBMixI6SvenjdfUJ2nIJA The melody operates on a...

A city can teach a person how to carry noise. The Liberties, with its old trade routes and close communal pulse, has long carried dense human music. From that inheritance, Zak Coghlan appears to have taken not only a taste for melody, but a belief that feeling becomes sharper when placed inside a story that can stand up under pressure. “Lead Balloon”, his new single...