The problem with looking for closure is that it can become another way of holding on. “Less In Love” by Dead Dreamz sits in that uncomfortable space between what has already happened...
At twelve, Alexis Lace walked down Victoria Street in London for the first time with a family member she is now estranged from. They only walked the street together because their time...
What does it mean to be a global citizen when there is so much suffering in the world? That is the question LTMAA took into "Pain of Us," released on September 7th....
One moment the person you love is there, and suddenly they are not. That is the premise of "Goodbye, My Love," the story of a man who loses the woman he loves...
At the peak of her buzz in late-1980s Los Angeles, Weslie Brown stepped onto a ship and vanished, leaving it all behind to sail around the world. She had been a headliner...
An album called Bright Colors might sound cheerful, but bassist and composer Trevor Robertson wrote it out of loss. The music emerged from consecutive periods of great loss and growth in his...
Some songs wait a long time for the right moment. Drummer, songwriter, and producer Hans-Peter de Zeeuw, who records as D'Z, wrote "Inner Child" more than thirty years ago and has only...
A song about betrayal that makes you want to dance is an unusual thing, and that contrast is the whole idea behind "Ólekú." Lagos Afrobeat artist Sayralex released it on September 18th,...
