XV Records feels like one of those labels you blink and suddenly everyone you trust is talking about them. They came out of London’s 10V Elysium arts collective and, in less than a year, have racked up absurd streaming numbers, lined up shows across Europe, and quietly assembled one of the deepest young rosters in…
The article presents I Tried to Tell You as the moment KP Skywalka really comes into his own. It’s an album where he pushes DMV drill forward without sanding down its edges, letting vulnerability and menace exist side by side. KP moves fluidly between memories of growing up—cheap meals, car rides soundtracked by ’90s…
This article looks at Unclouded, the latest Melody’s Echo Chamber album, as Melody Prochet settling comfortably into her own world rather than trying to reinvent it. Her music has always felt cinematic and hazy—full of reverb-soaked guitars, soft percussion, and warm fuzz that can make even the most ordinary moment feel like a slow-motion movie…
DJ Narciso has never really sounded like he’s chasing the same highs as the rest of Lisbon’s batida scene. While others lean into bounce and brightness, his instinct is to slow everything down and let it feel heavy. That’s what made his Príncipe releases—especially Diferenciado—hit so hard: tarraxo’s dragged tempo gives his music room to…
Niontay is the most unpredictable and adventurous voice orbiting MIKE’s 10k label, alongside peers like Sideshow and Anysia Kym. Since his breakout posse cut “Real hiphop” with Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE, Niontay has leaned into a geographically unmoored sound shaped by his upbringing in Milwaukee and Central Florida and his current life in Brooklyn….
This essay treats Horses less like a debut album and more like the moment Patti Smith stepped into herself in public. It opens with that now-mythic line—“Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine”—and traces it back to a specific night in 1971, inside St. Mark’s Church, when Smith read poetry with guitarist Lenny Kaye…
This interview doesn’t read like a comeback announcement so much as a deep exhale. Grizzly Bear aren’t storming back with declarations or grand plans; they’re cautiously, almost tenderly, finding their way back to each other after years of quiet distance. Daniel Rossen and Chris Taylor talk about the band not as a machine that stopped…
The world that gave rise to Soul Coughing’s 1994 debut album, Ruby Vroom, showing how it grew out of a very specific early-’90s moment. At the time, spoken-word poetry—especially poetry slams—had real cultural weight. What began in Chicago in 1986 spread quickly, finding homes in clubs, coffee shops, and places like New York’s Nuyorican Poets…
The article frames Moodymann (Kenny Dixon Jr.) as a near-mythic figure in electronic music, someone who cultivates mystery—performing behind white sheets, avoiding interviews—yet whose artistic core is intensely grounded in Detroit community. Despite the “kayfabe” theatrics, Moodymann acts as a teacher and mentor, constantly uplifting local musicians through his Mahogani label, his work at Buy…
From her earliest EP, feeo (Theodora Laird) established herself as a paradox: a 22-year-old singer with the emotional gravity of someone far older, pairing plaintive, world-weary lyrics with an uncanny composure. Her early work’s downtempo beats and sighing synths framed a voice that could bloom from hushed confession into unexpectedly agile, R&B-informed flourishes—revealing a quiet…