It’s fitting that Keyon Harrold’s Blue Note performance came on Sunday, September 24th. That was the day that dozens of NFL players protested not only injustice, but a […]
MUSIC: Jay Boogie’s “Jesus Loves Me Too” Live
While usually we could go into the standard ‘This was a rap show, with these common rap tropes performed either really well or really bad, with this additional […]
Maroon 5 and SZA Are Trapped Inside My Brain: A Low-Key Cry for Help
It’s been seven days now. Seven days since I first stumbled across Maroon 5 and SZA’s “What Lovers Do” on the radio. You know that feeling when a new […]
LIVE: Can A Old Soul Find Joy at the Meadows Festival in 2017?
Photos: Victoria Ford/Sneakshot Photography Note: This is a review of Days 2 and 3 of the Festival. So here is something that most people don’t know about me…I don’t […]
REVIEW: Vintage Babies
Singer-songwriter and rhymer Maimouna Youssef (aka Mumu Fresh) first made national waves by crooning the unsettled hook on The Roots’ banger “Don’t Feel Right” off Game Theory (2006). […]
VIDEO: Lizzo – Water Me
Lizzo’s got beauty on the brain. The Minny indie-hip hopper dropped her Coconut Oil EP last fall and just followed it up last week with a new single […]
MUSIC: J Scienide feat. Kev Brown – Ghetto
J Scienide has dropped a new video for his song, Ghetto featuring Kev Brown. It’s a nice mid tempo head nodding banger held down by a soulful loop and […]
MUSIC: Sophie Meiers – Sincerely, Yours
Sophie Meiers hails from Durango, Colorado, although her voice alone had me assuming she was English. Something about both the phrasing and timbre of her pipes evokes a […]
The List: Top 5 Hip-Hop Samples of Radiohead
Over an extremely fertile 33-year career, Thom Yorke and Co. have produced loads of beautiful.weird.haunting.mournful moments, from the guitar-driven Britpop and art rock of their early albums through to the electronic and […]
Red Bull Music Academy Announce Los Angeles Festival October 2017
special guest Egyptian Lover at the RBMA Festival press conference in LA Monday, August 14th, 2017: Red Bull Music Academy invited press and VIPs to Resident […]