BACKSTAGE: Herrick and Hooley
If you haven’t heard of Herrick and Hooley and their most recent album, Texoma, you’re missing out. The Dallas, Texas natives are...
BACKSTAGE: Dansonn
When first meeting the young, up and coming music producer, Dansonn, you wouldn’t automatically think, “hip hop producer.” Yet, Dansonn...
#MusicMonday: Don Von
Man, I will never tire of a leaned-out, emo, gargle-flow – you know where the beat is cloudy and sinister and the MC sounds like he’s...
#MusicMonday: Noah Sims
At the end of our phone conversation last Wednesday, I ask Noah Sims if he has any parting words. “Shout-out to my mom!” He proceeds to...
#MusicMonday: Ohana Bam
“My first plane ride was a one-way to somewhere I’d never been before,” 20-year old rapper Ohana Bam says to me over the phone last...
#MusicMonday: The 90s Were Dope
A few weeks ago I saw Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope, a Sundance darling executive produced by music industry veterans Pharrell Williams and Sean...
#MusicMonday: TonyDark
TonyDark is a Houston-based hip-hop producer whose recently-released The Strange Sounds of Vincent Stevens Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 have been...
#MusicMonday: Summertime Sadness
A few months ago, I wrote about the colossal high that accompanies summer’s imminence, pointing to the evaporation of winter’s gloom and...
#MusicMonday: Yung Pizza Boy
I opened last week’s column by announcing that “the Internet is filled will amazing music that no one listens to.” This week I spoke to...
#MusicMonday: Best Tracks of 2015…So Far
Crazed music addicts and generally neurotic individuals like myself are trapped by an undying compulsion to perpetually categorize, list,...