Award-winning artist Rehya Stevens beckons listeners to peel off the soundtrack of Christmas as Christmas sets in with her new single entitled “Be My Baby By Christmas Night,” which is released from her original Christmas album “Santa’s Takin’ Over the Town.” Music runs in the veins of Rehya Stevens, and she was born into an already-established musical family. Her father, Peter Martin, was a world-renowned pianist...

Listening to Libby Ember’s single “Alibi” is a study in strange emotional temperatures. The sound is a down-tempo, sun-dusted blanket of soft guitars and gentle synth pads, the kind of arrangement you’d put on to feel safe. But the feeling it leaves behind is a deep, architectural cold, the kind you find in the shadowed corners of an old stone church long after the...