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Taiwainese R and B Artist 9m88 Releases Cathartic Jazz-Influenced Sophomore LP 9m88 Radio

On her sophomore record, 9m88 (Joanne Tang) does just this. 9m88 (pronounced “Jo-m-baba”) is a Taiwanese artist who translates...

Sara Barron

mBtheLight Let Intuition Guide Her Solo Debut, How to Dress Well in the Dark

It seems that Monica Blaire exists in the realm of the blessed few that experience the latter – acting as a vessel for the words, melodies and rhythms that seems...

Sara Barron

79.5 Tune In to "Club Level" and Do Double-Duty Vocal Support After a Year Without Tours

S. The New York-based vocalists are the core of disco-soul group 79.5 and they’ve been opening for Durand Jones and the Indications since earlier in the...

Liz Ohanesian

Horatio Luna Trips on Jazz with his Psychedelic Freaks on Passing Through The Doorways of Your Mind

The Psychedelic Freaks take their own wild, whirling dervish-approach to jazz on their debut Passing Through The Doorways Of Your Mind, released on La Sape Records June 4. Like their name suggests, there's a lot of adventurous, freak-out psych trips along a journey of the jazz spectrum. Vocals...

Cat Woods

Lauren Lee Defies Vocal Jazz Tradition with The Queen of Cups LP

It’s a persistent discrimination that was written into the fabric of the genre 100 years ago, as a result of the social conventions of...

Alexa Peters

Vespre Breathes Life into Spring on New Single "Back to Me"

For others, it presented a debilitating pit of emotional and physical quicksand, making it nearly impossible to get...

Sara Barron

Mario Sulaksana Showcases Detroit Artists and Friends on Debut LP Conclusion

I met Mario Sulaksana four years ago, in a Wayne State University practice room. He was the band leader of a fundraiser for the Artist Residency I was living in, and the residency coordinator suggested he accompany me for a song or two. When we first spoke on the phone, I remember preparing to meet...

Sara Barron

PREMIERETime Keeps Moving On for Lilan Kane in her Mellow Visual for "TKMO”

For the last year, most of us have been stuck at homes, unable or afraid to venture outside due to COVID-19; looking back, the stagnant nature of the past twelve months creates a kind of time warp - a fuzzy, murky glass through which we remember the year. Oakland-based musician Lilan Kane turned...

Ashley Prillaman

Toronto's Bernice Mix Mindfulness and Imagination on New LP Eau De Bonjourno

On Eau De Bonjourno, Bernice covers themes of isolation, disconnecting self-worth...

Sara Barron

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio Deliver on a Promise with Sophomore LP I Told You So

Willey With the release of their newest album, I Told You So, which drops today on Colemine Records, Seattle's simmering soul-jazz Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio deliver on a promise they made to their fans more than two years ago. Shortly after the 2018 release of their debut...

Alexa Peters

PREMIERESubhi Searches for Silver Linings on "Wake Me Up"

When Indian-American singer-songwriter Subhi went to LA to record a new song in March, she'd just begun hearing news about COVID-19. Tasked with improvising a song in the studio, she began offloading her feelings about the rising pandemic. The result is "Wake Me Up," a meditative, vocoder-enhanced...

Annie White

Cuban-Canadian musicians Elizabeth Rodriguez and Magdelys Savigne of the band OKAN

PREMIEREOKAN Bring Colorful Afro-Cuban Style to "Espiral" Video

OKAN (meaning heart in the Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria) formed when Savigne and...

Chaka V. Grier