We often underestimate how much meaning a sound can carry before we even begin to interpret it. Certain sounds are inseparable from memory, geography, ritual, and cultural experience; others acquire new meanings...
Destructo Disk has been a fixture of Richmond's DIY punk scene since 2015, building a reputation on relentless touring and self-releases through their own label, Sockhead Records, rather than waiting for anyone...
Somewhere along the line, worship music became afraid of weirdness.
Maybe it happened when somebody discovered that four chords, an enormous chorus and enough reverb to fill Noah’s Ark could reliably make an...
The problem with empowerment songs is that everybody sounds empowered by the second chorus. Heart shattered? Fixed. Self-esteem missing? Located. Rotten boyfriend? Deleted. Three minutes later everybody's stronger, wiser, hotter, and presumably...
Some of the most interesting creative chapters begin when we least expect them. For 50mething, that chapter arrived at 58, with a decision to finally bring decades of ideas and a catalogue...
We often talk about music as an escape from reality, but sometimes it is less about escaping than figuring things out. “Bent Out of Shape” by Peter Manning Robinson emerges from precisely...
Stephen H. Cumberbatch, working as C'batch, has been part of New York's dance music lineage since the early 80s, co-writing tracks like "I Need You Now" for Sinnamon, a foundational New York...
John Miller works solo out of Paris, and "Sexy Blueberry" out June 25th, is, by his own account, a genuinely raw piece of work, written during a period of real personal suffering...
Russ Harris, once a Billboard Dance Chart-charting producer and remixer, shifted his focus in 2020 toward Contemporary Christian music under the name Fishburn, and "Take It Away," out July 3rd, is the...
Naoko Hiranuma spent years living by the ocean before music became her full-time focus, working as a diving instructor in Japan, the Maldives, and Fiji before running a surf camp of her...
I was already sold on "funky, soulful and gospel-inspired" music, but this project is even more than that. Kinshift is the house band of KinShift Music Studio out of St. Louis, led...
Blending retro pop-rock textures with polished contemporary production, Mick J. Clark's "Anuther Sunny Hulliday" arrives as a cheerful celebration of sunshine, travel, and the simple joy of stepping away from everyday routines....
Kemi Ray releases "Back To Work (Naija Anthem)" on July 13th through Bright Halogen Sound Labs, the North London independent label run by Raymond Austin. The track is built explicitly around the...
Suzanne Grzanna, professionally known as Sax Diva, has spent decades building a career that spans jazz records, film and TV placements, and a catalog of over ninety songs on her own Diva...
