Sometimes the heaviest thing you can carry is the art you stopped making. Brendan Ranney knows exactly how that feels, having traded his guitar for the demands of daily life almost two decades ago. Now, the Southern California indie singer-songwriter is back with his debut solo album, "Slightly Out of Focus". Sparked by finding his late father's poetry, this record is a raw, guitar-driven reflection on...

With his sprawling album "Live, Learn, and Love Without Regets", Panamanian-born, longtime U.S. songwriter ErickOscar offers a candid, stylistically unruly chronicle of a life examined in full color. A bilingual acoustic guitarist and hands-on producer, he approaches music less like an industry strategist and more like a backyard philosopher assembling a family scrapbook from whatever materials happen to be within reach. https://open.spotify.com/album/77nWuQDCVqX4bJwqYf1yqs?si=k-3PZ7ZVRYuzhC4nj8uahg The collection refuses to...