Listening to RIOT SON’s new single, “Loneliest at Best,” is a curious exercise in emotional time-travel. The sound pulls you back to the early 2000s, to a time of angular guitars and heartfelt, frayed-collar vocals. It has that nervous, shimmering energy of indie rock that always sounded best on a pair of wired headphones, the beat prodding you forward even as the lyrics confess...

Don Rello is not trying to scroll past the hard part. On "I Don’t Watch TV III", he puts fatherhood, grief and personal strain inside a seven-track Hip-Hop/Rap release. Released through RAPREC, the explicit album runs for 24 minutes and 41 seconds. Don Rello calls this his sharpest and cleanest work. For anyone meeting Don Rello here, "I Don’t Watch TV III" is the third entry...