ErickOscar lays his life bare on "Two Flags, One Heart", constructing an earnest, home-spun tapestry of Americana that carries thirty-four years of dual citizenship in its veins. Originally from Panama and long settled in the United States, Oscar operates as a self-contained musical architect writing, strumming, and arranging his own material with an earthy, patient devotion. Country music has forever traded in tales of...

The fiercely independent, Idaho-raised rapper nick! channels a deeply overstimulated, restless frequency on his new EP, "GEEKED!". Born in 2006 and building a fervent following entirely without industry co-signs, he occupies an interesting lane in new-wave underground hip-hop. His music sounds precisely like the brain chemistry of an internet-raised creative processing the blinding speed of newfound success. He writes and produces melodic, hard-hitting rap...