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Before Youth Lagoon was put on hiatus, Trevor Powers' dream pop project was defined by its ethereal intangibility. It possessed a sound and...

Through her cutting and renowned Beloved Trilogy, author Toni Morrison cradled beautiful multitudes within her many captivating and boundles...

Since last hearing from Toronto punks Deliluh, things have changed — drastically. After taking the city's scene to "strange and compelling n...

Published May 03, 2021 9 Death hangs heavy in the mind of rising Virginia rapper McKinley Dixon. In 2018, his best friend was killed, which Dixon describes as feeling like "brass knuckles with shards of broken home to the dome," on "make a poet Black," the lead single from For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her. The weight of this death can be felt from the first moments of opening track "Chain Sooo Heavy." Dixon is a wordsmith in full command of both narrative and atmosphere, and while this...

Arlo Parks Collapsed in Sunbeams Shows Her Potential to Become the Voice of a Generation 7 On her long-awaited debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, British phenom Arlo Parks has delivered an essential reprieve from what has been a devastatingly drab past few months without diving too deep into discussions about the pandemic and social unrest. This is not to say Collapsed in Sunbeams is here to heal wounds. No, the weight of the world should never fall on a single person. But Parks is differen...