In the midst of a global pandemic, 22-year-old singer-songwriter Rosie Darling seems to be faring just fine as she sets the stage for the next phase of her career. While a harried nation in one mad, mad world of chaos… Read More
A new pop release, “Tell Me” from inspiring bicultural artist Amirah, is a unique aesthetic call for unity and peace. Especially considering the time of the release when US elections are the central theme for many, the song’s message is… Read More
The weird and wonderful Jim White is as much a performance artist as he is a musician. He deftly combines different pop styles in juxtaposition with each other. Then White mixes these products with a plethora of noises: snippets of… Read More
“I know I’m better off solo / Shouldn’t have to be this hard,” sings LÉON on her second album Apart, the follow-up to her 2019 self-titled debut LP which launched her to the forefront of the indie-pop conversation. Much like… Read More
The French New Wave finally made its way to Africa in the late 1960s, thanks in part to the French postcolonial presence on the African continent, which gave rise to the particularly influential artistic output of directors in Senegal, with… Read More
20. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People [Arts & Crafts/Paper Bag] The diffidently-sung “Anthem for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” will reach you, even if you’re not in the targeted demographic. You will want to shout out the lyrics with… Read More
40. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning [Saddle Creek] Released in 2005 alongside the stylistically opposed Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning features ten brilliantly crafted songs about frustrating love, the struggle for identity, and… Read More
Excerpted from When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras by Claudrena N. Harold (footnotes omitted). Copyright 2020 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Used with permission of the University of Illinois Press.… Read More
A standard-issue modern music gripe, subject of a ton of clickbait articles, is, “why are there no protest songs anymore?” The answers vary, but the most crucial point is that political criticism laces an incredible amount of modern music. Anyone… Read More
Adulkt Life are a new punk band helmed by music veterans. Vocalist Chris Rowley fulfilled that same role in the early 1990s riot grrl act Huggy Bear. This is his first serious musical venture since that band broke up in… Read More