On his urgent new single "La La Land," Frankfort blues-rock singer-songwriter Trail Hawk confronts modern delusion with gravel in his throat and dirt under his fingernails. Dubbed "The True Asphalt Poet," the Kentucky musician draws straight from lived experience surviving homelessness, navigating recovery, and enduring the devastating loss of his son to addiction. He uses that background not to lecture, but to map the...

Patrick Costello doesn’t knock politely on “Heart Like a Hurricane”; he kicks the screen door off its hinges and drags you onto the dance floor. The San Francisco multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, composer, and drummer, who also leads The KnabokovCollective, usually roams from political blues rock to bluegrass to rock-jazz-Latin-reggae instrumentals. Here he plants both boots in rockabilly, surf rock, and classic rock and roll. https://open.spotify.com/album/6WzXS5qbr4JBj9ffbsr9TD The...