On his bracing new single “Jolie,” New York City songwriter and guitarist Owen Steib channels 1990s college-rock bite to reckon with a devastating story of lost innocence. The 18-year-old high school senior constructs a fragmented, out-of-order mystery around an exiled girl caught in the wreckage of an irreversible, violent incident. Instead of spelling out the tragedy cleanly, Steib drops cryptic, evocative breadcrumbs a denim...

Jacob Chacko’s new single "Over The Top" hits with the specific intensity of a crowded escalator on December 23rd, but thankfully minus the existential dread. While Chacko is known as "Indie Music’s Champion of Positivity," this track feels less like a polite championing and more like a jubilant shout across a crowded room. https://open.spotify.com/track/7LUCC67PDnfZ3Cz7nvH4y8?si=b8fcabce132b43ea Musically, the track delivers on its promise of Organic Pop-Rock infused with...