Solitary Friends is a Los Angeles dark pop band composed of three individually outstanding musicians, including songwriter and lyricist Ken Lamere, who also plays guitar for the band. Nick Liberatore, the band's fantastic drummer who has previously been on places like Comedy Central, and Michelle McGregor, the leader of Solitary Friends, an MFA acting graduate, have experience in numerous bands around Los Angeles. Solitary...

The Nashville singer Jordan Kinsey gives the Etta James classic electric guitar grit, vocal heat, and a clean sense of grown-up longing. Jordan Kinsey does not rush the feeling on "Sunday Kind of Love." She lets it lean back, breathe, and check its own pulse. That choice is the hook. In a time when romance can be announced, muted, archived, and quietly deleted before brunch, Kinsey...