New Music

For an artist who has spent the better part of six years releasing genre-hopping indie projects, Dorian seems surprisingly uninterested in hewing to the contemporary dance-pop blueprint. From a bouncy bassline, pristine synth textures, layered backup vocals, a singalong-ready chorus that seems expressly designed to compel you to the nearest dancefloor-but what distinguishes OOO from […]

Jeff Hodges’ I Believe enters the world with a press release full of signifiers. This is an Americana-country ballad with all of the typical modern saints in mind spanning Zach Bryan, Chris Stapleton and Leon Bridges, arriving complete with respectable streaming numbers, a burgeoning live performance series dubbed the N4KED MAN Sessions, and a biography

There’s only so many times you can mention that you really miss the ’90s before people begin to ask if you’ve considered buying a flannel shirt and playing Singles in a loop. Grunge nostalgia is an entire industry now. Half the bands who do it sound like they’re painstakingly replicating a museum exhibit titled ‘Kurt

There are two types of independent artists who record at home: The sort that spends 80% of their energy trying to convince you they’re actually living a millionaire’s lifestyle on the sly. And then there’s the sort that takes their existing lives-family struggles, career anxieties, rising pressure and doubts about the future and says, “That

There are, broadly, two types of rap storytelling songs. The first ones you tell you about growing up broke, getting rich, losing your friends, finding your way, or discovering that celebrity isn’t nearly as rewarding as you thought it would be. They exist because people like to listen to other people. The second type are

Fear is funny. Not “ha ha” funny though, rather the kind where your mind gets so used to being anxious, or in constant mode of being ready for anything, the fear itelf becomes the norm, or rather, comfort. Kind of like the really irritating person who just doesn’t want to leave your place, although they

About seven million rock tunes about broken relationships-that’s not a dig. Humanity has been trying to hurt the ones we love for a good several thousand years and rock just brought it to scale. In truth, the real challenge isn’t finding fresh angles to sound off to about the pain, but making an audience care