With "A Piece of Me," Western Australia’s Bailey Perrie offers up a pop rock grenade with the pin already pulled, cleverly disguised as a twisted love song. It thunders forward with a cinematic, arena-ready confidence that makes its raw, emotionally brutalist core all the more disarming. The effect is something like finding a tear-stained diary page taped to the side of a massive firework...

The Debut of LA's Rising Star Kapture: Turning Fractured Bits Into Melodic Masterpieces. A new artist, Kapture (real name Gabrielle Lambro), has made a splash in Los Angeles with her CD "New Beginnings." Her rise from Palm Beach, Florida's underbelly to the epicentre of the L.A. music industry is as fascinating as her music. Kapture's tale is one of triumph over hardship; she overcame the difficulties...