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KIN tells the origin of making music to be something that started the day after he and a friend were talking about what it would take to make music. So they hopped on a bus to a store, pooled their ...

The context in which this album comes in is this: Tymain Robbins is a young, green North Carolina rapper who recently had his set at J. Cole’s Dreamville festival in Raleigh, complimented by Lu, with ...

Skip Waiters runs his own life as a cable drama with an announcer, recaps, and a renewed season, keeping a showrunner’s power ...

Jaz Donell’s third Free the Slaves tape puts sin, poverty, and the system in the same chain, and his confessions of doubt and ...

JGRREY splits herself in two to survive a motherless childhood and an addiction, then lets the split give way and writes the ...

Near thirty, with everyone counting down her clock and her father long gone, Grace Carter takes on the job of raising herself ...

With Patois and Zulu folded in beside his Yoruba and Pidgin, Fireboy DML carries one warrior from the church to the club and ...

On her first country record, the Memphis singer takes the honky-tonk sinner’s part that country handed its men and sings ...

Triumph & Sadness features Hudson Whitlock on drums (he also plays glockenspiel, vibes, and even timpani on one song; he even has backing mic duties on two of them); Liam McGorry on trumpet (he also ...