Some songs are like a time machine. You press play, and suddenly you’re somewhere else, some other time. Maybe it’s a smoky bar in the 1970s, a sweaty punk club in the 80s, or, in the case of “Oh Denise,” the new single from Ken Woods and The Old Blue Gang, a dusty dancehall on the outskirts of Austin, Texas, sometime in the not-too-distant past. The...

Senior Dunce's new single, "Bestial," has arrived, feeling less like a typical release and more like an urgent, slightly baffling philosophical tract wrapped in a day-glo dance floor invitation. It’s a funky house dance track, make no mistake. Yet, this isn't solely an invitation to shuffle your feet; it's a dispatch from the messy, gloriously imperfect front lines of human existence. https://open.spotify.com/album/0lzz1FMqXuBpGzuK1YKlWc?si=w1CEDHE7S7W1AkudlyVFAw Dunce, a self-proclaimed eccentric...