Skydro Elevates on "The Castle Above The Clouds"

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“Castle Above the Clouds” presents a polished--but gritty--project that’s sure to reverberate with gusto in any royal chambers.to drop this year, following up his late-April EP release The Wolf That Cried Idiot.”

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Lt. Sunnie's "Always Sunnie in Trilidelphia" Review

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Lt. Sunnie’s project, “Always Sunnie in Trilidelphia,” released within the first few weeks of 2022, but its shine still resonates long after the summer sun wanes. Lt. Sunnie has her hand in many creative pots, being a singer, dancer, and host of The Sex Talk Podcast.

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Nur-D turns First Avenue into the inclusive Club Nur-D

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Whether he just wanted people to dance, addressed his social justice activism work against police brutality, or slowed it down for a love song — all eyes were always on Nur-D. They’d follow him anywhere and I’d probably find my feet walking with as well. This kind of artist doesn’t come along often, especially a homegrown one.

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Fires of Denmark: Mixtape I Review

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Michael has no limits when it comes to his content, and is constantly coming up with new material and collaborating with new artists - as a self described "compulsive writer," his personal record is writing 400 songs in a single year. He expanded on his creative process by mentioning a concept Brian Eno shared with bandmate David Byrne; don't think of songs as architecture, think of it like gardening. Plant your seeds and see what grows. When writing a song, Michael asks each artist for three adjectives and a color they associate with their song. Although he does not have Synesthesia, he strongly associates songs with color. "Sounds have colors in a sense," he explained, "you know what a gold sounds like, how a black song or firey red songs sound, you know?"

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