That’s what’s happening in the album-opening title track from People Watching, the third LP by U.K. pop-rock star Sam Fender. “I people watch on the way back home/Envious of the glimmer of ...

A compulsively replayable record,” Phonetics On and On finds the young, all-female alt-rock trio from Chicago nearly done with college and already “trying to build itself from the ground up by ...