Leon Blanchard, a name perhaps faintly echoing from the mid-noughties indie surge, returns not with fanfare, but with a solitary signal flare titled "Astronaut". Hailing from Grimsby, a town known more for its fishing heritage than its celestial aspirations, Blanchard's new song does not really feel like a return, but more like a personal gearbox picked up after years of chatter. In 2007, his old band,...

Livi Jacobs is the name that everyone knows as the heartbeat of modern pop music. She has recently released a new song called "Better That Way," which is a great example of how honest current music can be. Vienna, Austria, is a place with a lot of cultures where Livi was born and raised. When she was 10 years old, she wrote her first song. Since then,...