Project of the week: Lor Choc – Still Worth It Baltimore’s Lor Choc follows a long lineage of auto-tune blues crooners who sing about persevering through genuine hardship over guitar-laden trap passages. The landscape has become so saturated with this…
Hip Hop Roundup: Bomethius, Polo G, Jean Deax, and More
Album of the week: Bomethius – Inadiquit https://bomethius.bandcamp.com/album/inadiquit I’m breaking the rules this week to highlight one of my favorite albums anyone has sent me this year. Jonathan Hodges is a multi-instrumentalist from Dallas, Texas who just released a nine-song…
Album Review: Dua Lipa delivers well-crafted, self-aware pop on “Future Nostalgia”
While the world is currently falling at the seams, nostalgia and memory may be the only feelings we have in order for us to stay sane. We could be optimistic for the future, but that’s a difficult task considering much…
The Hip Hop Roundup: The Best Projects from March
Not going to lie, March sucked for a myriad of reasons. From an objective standpoint, the world began it’s descent into the abyss thanks to a catastrophic virus that continues to wreak havoc daily (I still blame climate change and…
Album Review: 5 Seconds of Summer – “CALM”
5 Seconds of Summer have ostensibly yielded the “boy band” aesthetic for a more mature brand of songwriting-at least through their eyes. The Australian group consists of Luke Hemmings (rhythm guitarist and vocalist), Michael Clifford (lead guitarist), Calum Hood (bassist)…
The Hip Hop Roundup – Week of March 30: KeiyaA, Connis, AZ Chike and more
Album of the week: KeiyaA – Forever Ya Girl KeiyaA is an up-and-coming R&B soul artist from New York City who just released her official debut album Forever Ya Girl on all streaming services. It’s a gorgeous quest for individual…
Hip Hop Roundup March 22: Sada Baby, Mac Hefner, Quelle Chris and more
Album of the week: Sada Baby – Skuba Sada 2 It would seem that in a world where social distancing is becoming more and more prevalent by the day, a “jerk” challenge would spark from various TikTok accounts. This eccentric…
