To us who consume music, genre lines can be divisive, cultural signifiers to the world at large about who we are and what we value. Like clothes we wear when we walk outside, our musical taste protects us and helps us find others who have traits in common with …

These have been very confusing times. I’ve been finding the feeling of hope again very recently, in tiny glimpses, while walking past other people down the street in the springtime sunshine, feeding off of their energy. Or catching more crumbs of success from friends …

In the bright, painful early days of my fine arts education, a well-intentioned graduate student teaching assistant told me in a critique that my piece was “too compositionally perfect.” I had no idea what she meant. How can a painting be too perfect? And how does …

Ignorance is the fifth album from Canadian folk band The Weather Station, a thought-provoking existential journey that articulates with painful directness what it’s like to be alive right now and also to be self-aware. Lead singer and songwriter Tara Lindeman is a …

Japanese folk-artist Ichiko Aoba’s new single ‘Asleep Among Endives’ is a dreamy lullaby that croons and ambles in a low-contrast twilight sojourn through soft moss, moody breezes and organic, gentle colors. The format is very simple, only the strumming of her …

It is increasingly difficult for artists to maintain the attention of their audience. We’re all so wrapped up in the flow of the almighty algorithms, mindlessly scrolling, endlessly searching for food in an empty refrigerator, rarely stopping long enough to give a piece of …

It’s now 2021, and Bicep’s second album Isles has finally dropped on Ninja Tune after three years of EPs and whispers. Irish producer and blogger duo Matt McBriar and Andy Ferguson have gifted us a cohesive collection of dance tracks engineered to heighten our …

There is a meditation technique I learned as a child that asks you to erase yourself, one body part at a time, until nothing is left but the ground beneath you, the space around you and the sky above you. The goal is to cultivate awareness of yourself as part of the whole …