The Texas country and Americana singer-songwriter Celeste Marie Wilson frames resilience, sisterhood, and southern poetry with a voice rooted in Gulf Coast memory. There are trees in Southern music that do far heavier work than scenery. Oaks keep family secrets. Pines mark county roads. Willows bend, grieve, shade, and somehow remain. In “Willow,” Celeste Marie Wilson reaches for that image with the calm nerve of a...

Marie Chain and "Holy Water" come at a time when the lines between styles of music are becoming less natural. For more than ten years, the Berlin-based artist has been making what she calls "Global Soul," and her newest song shows why that term is so perfect. The track's origin story reads like something from a travel journal. Chain conceived the melody during a summer hike...