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The Quiet Prophecy of Les Sins
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The Quiet Prophecy of Les Sins

Chaz Bundick released Michael in November 2014 and then basically walked away from Les Sins. No farewell tour. No announcement. The project...

MSTRKRFT And The Punk Blueprint For Blog House
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MSTRKRFT And The Punk Blueprint For Blog House

Jesse F. Keeler has spent two decades living a double life, and somehow neither side has ever felt like a compromise. In Death From Above...

Saint JHN Is Done Chasing The Algorithm
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Saint JHN Is Done Chasing The Algorithm

Carlos St. John Phillips has spent the better part of six years trying to outrun a song he wrote in 2016. Roses was never supposed to be...

Sombr And The Radical Power Of Staying Invisible
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Sombr And The Radical Power Of Staying Invisible

There is no face. No Instagram stories from the studio. No behind the scenes content showing the creative process. No carefully curated...

Romain Gavras Is Picking On Red Heads Again
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Romain Gavras Is Picking On Red Heads Again

There is a thread running through Romain Gavras's career that does not get discussed enough. The man keeps coming back to gingers. Not as a...

The Oscars Just Opened the Door for Music Video Directors
Culture

The Oscars Just Opened the Door for Music Video Directors

On May 1, 2026, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a significant overhaul of its eligibility rules for the 99th...

Bryant Barnes: From Playing for His Grandma to Soundtracking the World
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Bryant Barnes: From Playing for His Grandma to Soundtracking the World

There is a video that has been circulating since 2022 that is worth watching before reading anything else about Bryant Barnes. A teenager...

Hannah Frances Folded Folk Into Something Stranger
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Hannah Frances Folded Folk Into Something Stranger

There is a kind of contemporary folk record that is built to comfort. The chords are gentle, the production foregrounds breath and...

Maruja's Pain to Power Burns Down the Manchester Blueprint
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Maruja's Pain to Power Burns Down the Manchester Blueprint

Maruja did not arrive in 2026 with a manifesto or a single boundary breaking song that forced critics to reach for new vocabulary. The...

Saya Gray's SAYA Refuses Every Genre Lane
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Saya Gray's SAYA Refuses Every Genre Lane

Saya Gray spent years on other people's stages. She played bass for Daniel Caesar on the kind of sold out runs that should have made her a...

Tau Lewis Stitches Black Diasporic Memory Into Monumental Beings
Art

Tau Lewis Stitches Black Diasporic Memory Into Monumental Beings

Tau Lewis was born in Toronto in 1993 and now lives and works in Brooklyn. Her medium is textile sculpture, which is a phrase that does her...

Aisha Devi: Frequency as Devotion
Music

Aisha Devi: Frequency as Devotion

Aisha Devi makes electronic music that treats sound as a tool for altered states. Born in the Swiss Alps to Nepalese Tibetan parents, she...