The Sonic Travelers have unveiled “A Heart’s A Terrible Thing To Waste”, a quietly devastating single that treats romantic collapse not with theatrics, but with hard-earned grace. Longtime collaborators George Aiello and John Ingram, whose musical partnership traces back to the 1970s, bring decades of seasoned songwriting to this adult contemporary and soft rock track, sidestepping cheap melodrama in favor of unsparing honesty. https://open.spotify.com/track/0tH2enMCxU2Th9FaypS99Q?si=6cb84c85a62f4762 Built on...

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...