You may be the best couple in the world one minute and then be complete strangers the next. That is the rapid transformation in many partnerships today. Abby Carroll, in a song titled "Lovers To Strangers," appears saddened over the entire situation, as evidenced by the tone of her voice. The poetic tone of this piece of songwriting is touching and the music compliments the message...

Some songs arrive like warnings from streets that have already learned the smell of rain on hot concrete. Before the first shout fully settles, there is a sense that bodies are gathering, feet are refusing to move, and some private fear has been pushed into daylight. Total Reverends build that pressure into 'The Revolution Is Inevitable', a single that treats rock music as a public...