"Hard Times (Come Again No More)" was written by Stephen Foster in 1854 as a direct response to the damage 19th-century industrial capitalism was doing to the poor, compounded by a recent...
Los Angeles-based independent artist Milyam (pronounced "me-lee-AHM") operates under her own label, MILYAM EMPIRE, and has been building a catalog at the intersection of atmospheric alt-pop and cinematic production. Her latest single,...
There's a specific type of cultural osmosis that happens when you spend enough time in a place that isn't yours. You pick things up without trying. A melody sticks. A rhythm starts...
Austrian electronic project EGGER has been building a very specific kind of world across his first three singles. Wolfgang Egger's debut, "Strange Behaviour", drew on Kraftwerk and early John Foxx to explore...
There's a version of this song most people already have lodged somewhere in their memory, and it belongs to Bette Midler. Her 1989 Grammy-winning recording of "Wind Beneath My Wings" - written...
Mark Andrew Hansen is a Sydney-based pianist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist with over 100 million streams across Spotify and YouTube. He writes, produces, sings, and plays everything himself, handling mixing and mastering on...
Chris Oledude is a Puerto Rican-born, African American, white-Jewish New York artist who has been writing protest music since the 1980s, when he performed on the streets of the city and in...
T. Brown is a Memphis-rooted songwriter operating under the platform Written By T. Brown, a project built around a specific creative premise: taking songs and reimagining them across genres while keeping the...