Shawn Brown’s EP, "Into the Furious Light," doesn’t slip quietly into the stream of modern indie-folk releases; it instead cups its hands around your soul like you’re a candle in danger of flickering out. The Portland troubadour crafts songs that feel like fragments of conversations—maybe ones you walked in on too late or letters unsent to someone dear but no longer near. You’re never...

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...