The moment the jaunty guitar kicks in on John Smyths’ new single, "Now I'm Wiser", you feel a familiar, comfortable warmth. It’s the sound of a good chair in a bar where the floor is sticky with spilled truths. And then the story starts, a classic yarn of a hard-living past yielding to a peaceful present. Smyths, a Dutch ex-metalhead singing country out of...

You know that exact moment when your phone lights up at 2 AM and you know you should ignore it, but you pick it up anyway? That is the exact feeling LEEDY has bottled up in her new single. "Haunted" does not waste time pretending to be a song about making good choices. It grabs you immediately with a vibe that feels like a late...