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Harlem-based singer-songwriter River Hooks began her career at the age of 11 and by 16 was uploading covers of songs by Billie Ellish, Chelsea Cutler Continue Reading

Dan Baird called it quits just in time. In 2019, after touring around the world for the better part of 40 years as a member Continue Reading

BTS (aka Bangtan Boys) who began their career as a hybrid of K-pop and hip-hop, is no longer part of Korea’s patrimony only – they Continue Reading

Barcelona’s MOURN play a kinetic style of punk rock crossed with garage rock that reveals pop inclinations in undeniably hooky choruses. Their latest single “This Continue Reading

New York-founded, Vancouver-grown, Los Angeles-based duo Bob Moses found their musical niche early on: smooth, gloomy synthpop with subtly driving beats, a balancing act between Continue Reading

Bettye LaVette has many talents. During her 50-plus year career, she’s been celebrated as a soul, rock, R&B, Americana, funk, gospel, and country music singer, Continue Reading

Australian pop artist CXLOE has released her latest single “One and Lonely”, another proper anthem from the rising artist that has already racked up more Continue Reading

British alternative pop singer-songwriter Ben Kidson grew up immersed in the punk and grunge scenes of the 1990s, but he equally loves great hooks and Continue Reading

As the LGBTQ+ movement for equality increasingly shifts its focus from mainstream representations of the acceptability of lesbian and gay people toward full inclusion of Continue Reading

“Cartoon” can mean a lot of things. As a drawing style, those things usually include simplification. A cartoonist takes a massively detailed real-world subject and Continue Reading

Molly Tuttle was only two years old when Jerry Garcia died in 1995. Though the little girl who grew up in the Bay Area found Continue Reading

Whenever I hear the song “Stay Beautiful” off Taylor Swift’s 2006 self-titled debut, I’m transported back to when my mom and I would drive to Continue Reading

The plot of John Cassavetes’s Husbands (1970) is deceptively simple. Three suburban men, close friends (maybe too close, maybe codependent), in their early 40s experience Continue Reading

Stephanie Lambring’s Autonomy is an as-you-see-it experience. The Americana artist’s upcoming LP, due out 23 October, argues for the power of choice above all else. Continue Reading

When Mike Davis published the first version of The Monster Enters: Covid-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism 15 years ago, the titular “monster” Continue Reading