We'll be highlighting a musician who trained as a physician but now writes songs with a skill that matches his professional background today. Here comes Kaiwyn, a stethoscope-wielding healer and musical master from Australia. During his adolescence, Kaiwyn documented his experiences via blogs and poems, which marked the beginning of his musical journey. His little stories began to take on a beat of their own,...

Geoff Westen’s album, “Music For My Friends”, thumps onto the scene like a dropped box of heavy disco balls – all shiny potential energy and the slight threat of chaos. It aims for that classic pop song euphoria, the kind designed to rattle car speakers and fuel late-night dance floors, an "aural assault" as Westen puts it. And it does pulse with energy, a...