With “Island Lantern Festival”, Tony Frissore manages to soundtrack a specific kind of mental vacation I didn’t realize I was overdue for taking. Ostensibly an instrumental nod to the Lunar New Year and the hopefulness of renewal, this piece operates less like a celebration and more like a gentle exhalation. https://open.spotify.com/album/3n43BcxSnavYKC0wt28GNu?si=E_50eQ_lQomyHT1RsD2Jrg It starts wet with the actual crash of ocean waves before slowly drifting inland. I...

For Broadway star Grace McLean, the release of her new single "Albertine" paves the way for the release of her highly anticipated album "My Lovely Enemy." With the third release, American singer-actress Grace McLean, an all-rounder, who has received global recognition for her Bullet in The Music Box, goes beyond the fame she has achieved in the theater and off-Broadway. The song is the forerunner of...