An inevitable part of the grieving process is realizing that you’re not, in fact, done grieving. Have Heart frontman and hardcore lifer Pat Flynn lost his dad, a Vietnam veteran and high-school English teacher, in […]
Hozier: Unreal Unearth
The blues-rock power ballad “Take Me to Church” was not just Hozier’s breakout hit, but the kind of epochal debut that renders the ensuing career an afterword. It had a raw, rude edge that won […]
Diners: Domino
Across Domino’s twenty-five minutes, Blue Broderick wanders through a Los Angeles beach, makes a plan to address the leaks in her bedroom ceiling, and idly waves a pen over an empty notebook. It’s her sixth […]
Hiss Golden Messenger: Jump for Joy
M.C. Taylor is no stranger to alter egos. It could be argued that Hiss Golden Messenger, the name of the loose collective he’s fronted since 2008, is a nom de plume itself. Cloaking his fears […]
Spellling: Spellling & the Mystery School
As SPELLLING, Chrystia Cabral dances the line between straightforward dream pop and aquatic, experimental electronic folk, creating music that both roils the soul and inspires whimsical daydreams. She expanded upon her tactile sound on 2021’s […]
EST Gee: El Toro 2
When El Toro came out in 2019, EST Gee never ran out of spellbinding ways to describe his reality as a candy man and opp exterminator. The gravel in his voice emphasized the intensity of […]
Rap’s Radiant Talent Don Modus & His Personal Connection to “Dark Knight”
Emerging as a radiant force in rap, Don Modus has stormed the hip-hop scene with his latest release, “Dark Knight.” In an intimate conversation, the artist delves into his creative journey, wellsprings of inspiration, and […]
Quavo: Rocket Power
Listening to “Greatness,” the closing track to Quavo’s second solo album, Rocket Power, it’s easy to imagine him removing his trademark designer shades and staring himself down in the mirror. The song is one of […]
Margaret Glaspy: Echo the Diamond
Margaret Glaspy had only a couple of EPs to her name when she told an interviewer that she wanted to approach songwriting “like a job.” Whatever the Brooklyn-based, Northern California-born artist’s creative process, it paid […]
jaydes: ghetto cupid
jaydes references the online and regional rap sounds of the 2010s like a daily poster in a niche hip-hop Discord community, the type who nitpicks small moments in seemingly inconsequential songs and fantasizes about what […]
Buck Meek: Haunted Mountain
“Cyclades” is the sort of song Buck Meek could spend the rest of his life writing. A rollicking country-rock rambler, it opens with a verse about Meek’s father crashing a motorcycle into an elk and […]
Key!: Marquis
Key! has been one of underground Atlanta’s best-kept secrets for years, a stylistic chameleon with a golden ear for emerging talent. For over a decade, he’s released solo projects and single-producer collaborations at a wicked […]