2024

Beyond The Midwest Gets Raw And Earnest On ‘The Comeback’

The Comeback is the latest addition to the booming genre of cloud-rap that is, for better or worse, taking over the internet’s darkest corners despite seemingly being in a bit of a rut of sorts at the moment, with its breakout stars Lil Uzi Vert and the already-gone artist Juice WRLD who is still somehow […]

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Journey / Destination Shows Raw Soul With Great Bars and Bravado

Hip-hop is in a crosshair’s point in 2024. With the advent of the feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake still being felt along every aspect of the music industry, one of the factors that made it such a big deal in the first place was because of Kendrick’s ethos; the idea of whether hip-hop was

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On Battle Maiden, Sparkle Glitch Shows Herself To Be a Force of Music

With the flickering of an eternal being emerges one Sparkle Glitch, newly-formed as if her blend of electronic dance music and art rock stylings comes as a native language to her. There is a real comfort to these soundscapes when it comes to her production styling as seen on her new EP, Battle Maiden, which

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Gus Defelice’s Latest Single, Black Cloud Is on God Level

Black Cloud is Gus Defelice’s latest single from his upcoming concept album, The Sound of Inevitability. It’s an instrumental track perfect for lovers of art. The intro of the track has a cinematic feel because of the ambient sound. The ambient sound, even though it lasts just for seconds, adds depth to the track. The

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Transcending Languange & Music: San Ta Gatia by Super Stereo

San Ta Gatia is Super Stereo’s newest album to date. It has 8 powerful tracks that have elements of punk, alternative, grunge, and shoegaze. Let’s do a deep dive and read why you need to listen to San Ta Gatia. Let’s start with Airport. The track’s intro has a melancholic/magical feel. The guitar’s distorted reverb

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Cindered Heart’s New Single “Queen of Decay” Takes Back the Crown

Have you ever listened to a song that is curated with such passion that it just overflows with emotion and creativity? It’s quite endearing and the passion somehow gets to you through the harmonies. “Queen of Decay” quite literally feels and sounds like a mixture of everything Cindered Heart is known for. A resounding rhythm,

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Gianfranco GFN Takes You Back with “Me After You”

Once you hit play, you instantly get brought back to nostalgia city. There’s something about its beat and overall sound that screams late nineties to early 2000s, but it still appeals up to this day. The structure and lyrics are simple yet memorable as it is quite literally about love, a theme that will never

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Mainstreet Brings a Slice of Heartland Rock From Norway on Their Tracks of Fire, Vol. 1 EP

When asked in regards to why I’ve been a critic for so long and with how exactly did I garner the longevity I have now as a media critic, I like to point out that a critic’s job is to present a perspective, and mine has a very unique value as a pansexual nonbinary Asian

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SimplyRich Will Get You “falling again” On His New EP

Let’s start in medias res when it comes to this review. I’ve just finished listening to three songs I was listening to prior to checking out the new falling again from Georgia-based RNB and hip-hop auteur SimplyRich, those two songs being Witchy by Kaytranada and a cover of Tamia’s So Into You on triple j.

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