What were the best albums of the year? As time goes by, it only gets harder and harder to answer that question. With an audience of listeners with shorter attention spans and a seemingly infinite amount of music released to compete for that attention, finding a favorite album that you can truly sink your teeth […]
In the chaotic and confusing world that was 2025, I couldn’t help but find solace in music. While the world was burning around us (quite literally for us Southern Californians), it became a necessary escape from what felt like the apocalypse that was happening at that moment. As I’m writing this in 2026, it doesn’t […]
I’m not going to pretend that it’s not already March 2025 by the time we release this. Shit’s been tough, I’ll admit it! But even though the world’s burning down and it’s starting to feel like everything’s all topsy-turvy these days, I still want to take the moment to celebrate some of the music that […]
If it’s brat summer out there in the pop world, in the bossa world the same can be said about… Mei Semones features? (Semones summer? idk.) After releasing her stellar second EP Kabutomushi in April, Semones is hard at work touring the project and playing a ton of supporting shows throughout the States with other […]
Two years ago, I received an email from an artist that I’d only casually heard about through word-of-mouth – gig posters would show her playing with artists like Raavi and FIG, seemingly suggesting another exciting artist to watch out for in the bustling New York music scene. Spotify’s algorithm, as tired as it is, had […]