Oakland, California-based artist Greg Hoy releases his latest album, Hit Music, whose title was borrowed from an old, enigmatic sign outside a local steakhouse that read ‘Hit Music.’ “I kept passing by it every day, and it just stuck,” Hoy says. “It got me thinking—what if, instead of a greatest hits album, I made a record that felt like one?” Hit Music’s genesis occurred when, in the middle of a set in Berlin, Hoy’s left hand went numb. He played through it, but the symptoms throughout the tour. He was later diagnosed with spinal arthritis, two fused vertebrae, and cervical radiculopathy. Whenever he strapped on his guitar, a nerve running to his hand was pinched. For the time being banned from playing guitar, Hoy rented a small room where he played drums. Hoy explains, “I’d drop my daugh...