Leicester’s genre-defying trio 9 o’clock Nasty has shared a released called "BEAST", offering the eighth dizzying glimpse into their forthcoming LP "Chaos". Pete Brock, Ted Pepper, and Sydd Spudd the self-dubbed aristocrats of punk thrive in the deep end of the human psyche here. The track relies on an angular, staccato post-punk melody that frantically steps up and down. It drags you directly into...

To listen to Stevie Hawkins’ take on "A Song For You" is to have a conversation with a ghost in a dimly lit room after the show has ended. Hawkins, long the rhythmic engine for the song's originator Leon Russell, steps from behind the drum kit to the microphone, and the space between these two roles compresses decades into four and a half minutes....