Rap music is no stranger to the world of chess. RZA and GZA of Wu-Tang Clan are the most recognizable chess players in the movement and have crafted entire songs dedicated to the world’s most […]
Jonah Yano: Portrait of a Dog
In 2022, upon noticing that his grandparents were beginning to forget his name, Jonah Yano traveled to their home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, hoping to archive any and all memories of them. Tirelessly recording […]
Reuben Vincent: Love Is War
While an underclassman at Charlotte’s Myers Park High School, Reuben Vincent managed to squeeze a full-fledged rap triumph into his courseload. With production from North Carolina fixtures 9th Wonder and Khrysis, 2017’s Myers Park was the sort of go-for-broke […]
Parannoul: After the Magic
At a time when even the most modest indie rock projects are expected to provide a captivating origin story and annotated talking points, the still-anonymous South Korean artist Parannoul stated just the following about their new […]
Mark William Lewis: Living
mark william lewis often seems to be lost in thought. Over the past couple of years, the London singer-songwriter has established himself as one of the most pensive and probing artists in the constellation of […]
Will Epstein: Wendy
Around the release of his debut EP, The Beautiful Moon, New York songwriter Will Epstein (then known as High Water) described his changing relationship with Bob Dylan’s music. A lifelong fan, Epstein didn’t really pay […]
Lil Yachty: Let’s Start Here.
And the big pivot is… a highly manicured and expensive blend of Tame Impala-style psych-rock, A24 synth-pop, loungey R&B, and Silk Sonic-esque funk, a sound so immediately appealing that it doesn’t feel experimental at all. In 2020, […]
Meg Baird: Furling
Meg Baird has made a name as a masterful guitarist, but it’s a piano that ties together her songs on Furling. In a recent interview with Aquarium Drunkard, she spoke about how working at the […]
The Tubs: Dead Meat
Joanna Gruesome’s breakup felt premature in 2017, but in hindsight it was more a beginning than an end. Since the Cardiff noise-pop ensemble disbanded, its members have spun off a constellation of new, interconnected bands, […]
Beauty Pill: Blue Period
Last summer, Chad Clark got a third heart. The electric one he’d received in 2008, after a viral infection, had been recalled, and this time doctors were able to secure an organ transplant. Severely immunocompromised, Clark […]
H.C. McEntire: Every Acre
H.C. McEntire has made a career complicating the music of her youth. A child of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, McEntire began life on a family farm, her days soundtracked by the local country radio […]
SG Lewis: AudioLust & HigherLove
Play any song from SG Lewis’s second album, AudioLust & HigherLove, and you’ll wonder where you’ve heard it before. A Target or TGI Fridays? Maybe it was a Spotify-curated playlist called “Good Vibes” or “Happy Beats.” You’ve heard […]