Getting ghosted by someone you thought you were building a future with hits different. It is the frantic, exhausting mental gymnastics of trying to figure out what went wrong when the other person refused to leave a manual. You are left holding a bag of mixed emotions, bouncing between intense nostalgia and the kind of anger that makes you want to throw your phone into the...

“Hangin On” makes letting go feel like a workout for the hands. Julia Appleton’s new indie-folk single takes a familiar moment, packing up a place full of history, then refuses to tidy up the feelings around it. The song came from helping her boyfriend sell his childhood home. This is a release about memory, movement, and the bruising pause before a person admits that forward...