Sophia Mengrosso’s new album, “Unforgiven”, doesn’t so much start as it does detonate, a thirteen-song treatise on survival. Her voice, a thing clearly trained for gilded halls and velvet curtains, instead wails from within a foundry’s clang and fire. The result is a bizarre and beautiful collision, the sonic equivalent of discovering a lost Caravaggio painting lit by a flickering fluorescent tube in a...

Jen Ash is a singer, songwriter, and composer who has built a reputation for merging R&B and pop genres with her own distinctive musical flare. Her work has been described as having "her own unique melodic flair." Ash was born in Lebanon and reared in France, and she has been on a musical journey that began with her playing professional basketball and has led her...