Shawn Brown’s EP, "Into the Furious Light," doesn’t slip quietly into the stream of modern indie-folk releases; it instead cups its hands around your soul like you’re a candle in danger of flickering out. The Portland troubadour crafts songs that feel like fragments of conversations—maybe ones you walked in on too late or letters unsent to someone dear but no longer near. You’re never...

James M. LaRocque, or JML as the hip kids probably call him, dropped "All About Me". It's a classic rock single, which, you know, feels like showing up to a party dressed as a Roman gladiator when everyone else is in jeans. Not a bad thing, necessarily. https://open.spotify.com/track/3xQO9QXBzMyKSCsN10ggfp This isn't about discovering some new profound meaning to life, that's for sure. JML is firmly planted in...