With ‘No Effort,’ her “love letter to girls in the hood,” Princess Nokia stakes a brand new flag into new ground in her musical career. It’s a heavy-hitting summer girl-power anthem with an addictive hip-hop flow. She …

Created for the historic Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn, Mary Lattimore’s single ‘Moon Over Deetjen’s’ is an elegy for a feeling of a place, a lullaby, a tender whisper. The impressionist continues …

Moving through the synthtastic shadows with her eyes always skyward and head turned to the light, Caroline Polachek’s Billions EP places an airy pop song duo into our laps like a warm kitten. Namesake ‘Billions’ is …

Shamir Bailey’s album Heterosexuality reads from start to finish like an exposé interview that immediately becomes more than the interviewer bargained for. It’s overflowing with Shamir’s signature radical honesty …

Eclectic majestic producer upsammy aka Thessa Torsing gave herself a limitation with her side-project Sweepsculp—recording using only an acoustic guitar and drums, and reacting to those sounds in her production. As a complement to her Bend EP, Sweepsculp’s …

I can’t believe it, but St. Vincent’s 6th album is here, and it walked into the room dressed in pure white for the party that I didn’t even know was happening. You know, the party where we all travel backward—or laterally—in time to our future-perfect vision of the …

There are a multitude of meanings we attribute to an open window. A breath of fresh air from the wild outdoors, or a breath of “fresh” air from the paper mill next door. A pathway for natural light so you can achieve very Instagrammable results with your mobile …

Three years after her first full-length studio album Devotion, UK-singer-songwriter Tirzah is splashing the surface of our endless pond again with her new single ‘Send Me,’ and it’s a stream-of-consciousness from the shadows, distant and moody, with a far more …

Love and art are both entirely human phenomena, and as such they will always inform each other. Singing about loving is its own means of expressing the present and leaving a residue of the future’s past. Love songs make great recorded histories because love is …