Kent Owens, a name that sounds like it should be on a library card next to “Hemingway,” but instead it's on the digital shelf next to my slightly messy playlist. This Cambridge-based creator of soundscapes – I’m resisting calling them songs, but…well – just released “Fade Away,” a single that feels like an open window after a long winter. It’s a soft rock hum...

Some cultural figures become adjectives before they even finish their careers. To act "Like Liam Gallagher" is to embrace a specific type of glorious, unrepentant arrogance. It is the art of standing completely still while the room around you catches fire, secure in the knowledge that you are the most interesting person present. Lewca understands this mythology perfectly. Following a life-threatening lung infection that forced a...