Go-go music turns fifty this year, and Prince George's County, Maryland - the genre's ancestral home - is not letting that pass quietly. "PG Bama (The Go-go Anthem)" is the work of...

Paul Jenner started releasing music at 58 under the name 50mething, which already tells you something about the level of urgency involved. His debut single, "Slowly Through the Night," was a personal...

Erik David Hidde has been making music entirely on his own terms for a long time - eleven albums under his previous moniker Prison Escapee, plus a debut Mohawk Castle album, all...

Knox Avery is not a traditional artist. It's an AI-driven project created by Harold "Leroy" Holden of Dogface Music, built around human songwriting and human production with an AI performer at the...

Jon Gold's biography reads like a novel someone made up. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area with a brother who managed Heart's label, got dubbed "Little McCoy" by a...

The origin story for this one is specific enough to be genuinely interesting. Hansen watched a documentary about Randy Newman, sat down at the piano immediately after, and had most of the...

The reference points SLAPPER name-drops for "Disco Decoder" are not modest ones - Giorgio Moroder, Kraftwerk, Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Juan Atkins, Frankie Knuckles. That's basically the entire founding pantheon of electronic music...

There's a specific kind of creative restlessness that makes an artist go back and take apart their own work. Sheila Simmenes released her debut album "Love Was Easy" back in 2021 as...