Protected: YGB’s The Indictment Finds the Person Behind the Street-Rap Persona
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Themindwillnotletgo’s Burnout: Turning Anxiety Into an Electrifying Rock Record
Credit: artwork: Andy Warren There is no such thing as universal burnout. One may try to sleep or take a vacation, whine it out with a friend or just stare blankly at a wall, wondering how you ever ended up here. TheMindWillNotLetGo, on the other hand, has chosen the more pragmatic method: plug in a
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Cashus King and Big O Turn Struggle, Faith, and Survival Into Something Richer on Water to Wine
There’s a very old idea in art that suffering makes you better. Usually this is nonsense. Suffering mostly makes you suffer. But hip-hop has always been unusually interested in what happens when people take the things that hurt them and turn those things into something useful, whether that’s a verse, a beat, a career, or
motko Makes an Album for People Who Still Listen to Albums
There is something refreshingly subversive about creating an album that resists all conventions of contemporary music. Not the obnoxious, leather-jacket kind of rebellious, nor the “rock is coming back!” marketing pitch every label apparently has to trot out every six months. Home, the debut record by motko is rebellious because it trusts that you will
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Tides Will Turn Is Great Because It Embraces Something Many Contemporary Records Have Either Rejected or Simply Failed to Recognize; Authenticity Isn’t a Marketing Strategy
Every “Is Rock Dead?” article since 2004 has been wrong about people still making plenty of rock music, and Tides Will Turn‘s debut album is a wonderful example of this fact. But what is truly surprisingly rare, even now, is an album from an actual band that seems genuinely invested in the prospect of making
Love Crash Isn’t Really About Triumph; It’s About Surviving Long Enough to Become Honest Again
Let’s be real: there’s something inherently funny about comeback narratives in indie music because they almost always get framed like the artist spent years meditating alone on a mountain before descending with ancient wisdom carved into stone tablets. In reality, most of the time it’s just someone going through a catastrophic emotional spiral while staring
The Tacet Mode’s “Not How You Color” Is a 14-Track Debut That Refuses to Feel Like One
Nowadays, it’s rare to find an album that feels sonically complete from the sound, the lyrics, and the overall atmosphere. But The Tacet Mode arrives with Not How You Color, fully realized and strikingly cohesive from start to finish— and for a debut? That says a lot. The Tacet Mode is the brainchild of Morristown-based
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CIRCUS Understands That Atmosphere Means Nothing Without Emotional Weight Underneath It
Most concept albums about nuclear annihilation fail for the exact same reason most apocalypse films fail: they secretly think the apocalypse is cool. Not morally cool, obviously. Nobody making these things is sitting there twirling their moustache whispering “yes… nuclear winter… excellent.” But aesthetically? Absolutely. There’s usually this underlying excitement to it all. Giant explosions,
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A Voice And A Guitar Are All It Takes To Feel Again and Connie Lansberg’s “Aeroplane” Proves It
Let’s talk about albums that aren’t made for blasting, big speakers. Sometimes, all you need is to sit in your room, plug your earphones, and listen to something like Connie Lansberg’s newest album, Aeroplane. Not for fun, not for vibes, but definitely for meaning. Melbourne-based jazz vocalist and songwriter Connie Lansberg is back with a
The Vault 2 By C’batch Asks For Time—And Gives More Back The Longer You Stay With It
It definitely takes some guts to trust the listener to stay a little longer, especially when everyone’s jumping on trends and chasing instant attention—yet, C’batch steps on the stage, meets your gaze with confidence, then simply asks for your presence with his latest album, C’batch The Vault 2 – Soul/R&B/Pop/ Rock/Reggae. Stephen H. Cumberbatch, aka
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