Love songs have given us a pretty convincing formula: find someone, fall in love, overcome the obstacles, and live happily ever after. But what happens when reality refuses to follow the script?...
Music has a funny relationship with trends. We spend so much time trying to identify what is next that we sometimes forget that good music does not always care about timing. Krey...
We often meet people at the end of their story.
We see the decision, the consequence, the mistake, the sentence; but rarely the years that came before it. Roger K’s “Please Don’t Put...
Memphis producer DJ CBee SUPREME, founder of Impeccable Taste Productions and a name behind work connected to GloRilla, La Chat and Harley-Davidson Canada, along with a 2024 Memphis Hip Hop Award for...
Tulsa's KahMenCents, who goes by "The VibeMaster," built "Like A Villain" around a beat by Wayne Brain he stumbled across on BeatStars, one that pulled up a memory of a cinematic late-night...
Estonian-born, Perth-based producer Hans T drops "Tensions" on September 10th, a track he's described as his most experimental to date. He went in without a time limit or any self-imposed rules, chasing...
Milyam, pronounced me-lee-AHM, has built her sound out of Los Angeles around a dark, cinematic take on hip-hop and R&B, and "Dream" leans hard into that atmosphere. The track came out July...
The desert is an unusual place to tell a story about surrender. There is nowhere to hide, little certainty about what lies ahead, and an almost unsettling amount of space to confront...
There was a time when heartbreak arrived through a slammed door, a dead telephone line, or a letter returned unopened. Now it comes through a glowing rectangle informing you that the person...
Gratitude can be an act of memory. It asks us to look backward, not simply at what went wrong, but at everything that somehow carried us forward. “God glory rise upon you”...
Ricky Z. has spent 25 years as one of LA's most in-demand session guitarists, with credits running through Steven Tyler, John Fogerty, Josh Groban, Alan Parsons, and a Latin Grammy for his...
Brightland Shines is Paul Totten's independent debut, but the path to it is anything but a beginner's story. Totten started as a percussionist, earning his BA in Percussion Performance and touring the...
Following last year's American Cosmic Revival Vol. 1: Back At Home, which paid direct tribute to the International Submarine Band's Safe At Home, Christian Parker and Patrick Cleary widened the lens considerably...
Arlen Roth has been at this since he was nine years old, played the first Woodstock reunion concert in 1970, and has spent the decades since working alongside everyone from Simon and...