Making Memories With Casey MQ
The singer-songwriter on turning from COVID-era dance party phenom to cerebral crooner.
Casey MQ’s second album, Later That Day, the Day Before, or the Day Before That, marks the start of a new musical chapter.
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TOBi Expands His Sound
With his latest album, Panic, TOBi is making music that explores such themes as vulnerability, masculinity, and countering negative Black stereotypes across kaleidoscopic hip-hop, jazz, Afrobeat, R&B, and classic soul.
TOBi explores themes as vulnerability, masculinity, and countering negative Black stereotypes across his unapologetic soul music.
Fefe Dobson Reclaims Her Pop Punk Throne
The singer-songwriter is set to release her new album Emotion Sickness, music that celebrates her unapologetic spunk and nonconformist sense of self.
The singer-songwriter is set to release her new album Emotion Sickness, music that celebrates her unapologetic spunk and nonconformist sense of self.
Singer-Songwriter Jake Wesley Rogers Reckons With His Past for a Future of Queer Liberation
Take me to church.
Effortlessly, Jake Wesley Rogers flows between storyteller, power vocalist, comedian, and therapist throughout his performance.
High Notes: Bella White’s Divine Articulation of Melancholy
Verse by verse.
When listening to her heart-wrenching ballads, the combination of her soft, country/folk twang and poetic prose feels exceptionally intimate, like the pages of a diary sung out loud in a dimly lit room. White’s lyrics go far beyond her 22 years of age, making sense of even the most complex emotions. It’s emo excellence.
High Notes: Zombie Compositions
The Last of Us soundtrack by Academy Award–winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla and composer David Fleming.
It seems paradoxical to explain a show riddled with infectious disease, murder, and a shattered civilization as beautiful, but through sound, the show becomes recontextualized into an evocative depiction of dystopia. The sonic universe of The Last of Us is filled with layers of madness.
Carving Out Space With Lido Pimienta
Brown girls (still) to the front.
Lido Pimienta has carved out a space for herself through equal parts absurdity, beauty, and outrage.
High Notes: Rêve’s Sonic Dreamscapes
Radical self-acceptance.
The sound is alluring—music that sends tingles up your spine, takes over your mind, and demands your feet start moving. It provides a momentary escape, encouraging you to get lost and to find a happier, more alive version of yourself. This is the sound of Rêve, the Montreal singer-songwriter crafting dreamlike ’90s house and 2000s pop- and R&B-inspired anthems.
Moose Knuckles Teams Up With Post Malone for a Unique Gender-Neutral Capsule Collection
For the rebellious spirit.
Canadian luxury outerwear brand Moose Knuckles has teamed up with Post Malone to design a 10-piece gender neutral capsule collection that celebrates the artist’s creativity and fearless spirit. What has been over a year in the making, is now available to the public.
