There is a specific kind of atmospheric pressure that descends in December, and with Mick J. Clark dropping his single "It's Christmas Party Time ", the barometer just shattered. Clark isn’t exactly a stranger to the heavy machinery of the music industry what with his major publishing ties and that serious brush with the Grammy conversation for his album Causes but here, he isn’t...

Megan Wheeler’s new single, "Now That I'm Gone," arrived. Not via carrier pigeon, thankfully, though wouldn't that be a marketing strategy? No, it arrived in the usual, utterly un-magical digital way, yet somehow, managed to feel like a little explosion of confetti made of pure, defiant self-respect. https://open.spotify.com/track/2m3tz4bSNELxdIbTjRWc92?si=546c28793c4443bc This isn't your typical "woe-is-me" breakup ballad. Wheeler, often drawing favorable comparisons to the songwriting queens, that Holy...