Dub Colossus has re-entered our turbulent reality with the vibrant album "Dub Will Keep Us Together". Founded back in 2008 by the late Nick Page, aka Count Dubulah, this dynamic global fusion project continues to thrive on dissolving borders. Operating as a defiant counter-movement against wars, climate chaos, and corruption, the music feels intensely vital, beautifully blurring Amharic, Spanish, French, and English over sturdy...

Take Jack Horton, a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose path to folk-Americana included stops at Japanese law school, Tokyo piano bars, corporate boardrooms, and government offices. His latest EP, "Imperfections," feels like finding someone's private journal set to music. And that someone happens to write really, really well. The five-song collection opens with "Set Me Free," a piano-driven confession that might surprise anyone expecting typical breakup bitterness. Horton...