Patrick Hynes’ new single, "Baby’s High Again," doesn't so much arrive as materialize, like a half-remembered scent of bourbon and regret clinging to a velvet curtain. This “Midnight Country” he’s cultivating, it’s less dusty plains, more the blue, flickering light of a motel television at 3 AM, illuminating a room where decisions have been made, then unmade, then made again. Hynes, a Scot with...

Conor Maradona’s new single "Snowball" hits with the bracing impact of a slushy projectile hurled directly at your jaw. As the reigning black sheep of pop music and the reliably dry-witted host of The Conor Maradona Podcast, Maradona is using this catchy pop rock sprint to clear a path for his upcoming debut album, "AN APOLOGY LETTER TO ALL MY EX GIRLFRIENDS" and "BLUE...