Spotlighting Twin Cities' Music from the Basement Up.

Skydro Elevates on "The Castle Above The Clouds"

September 23, 2022 by Paul Thorson in Album Review

“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.”

OKnice's "Have You Tried Being Happy?" Review

April 04, 2022 by Paul Thorson in Album Review

Have You Tried Being Happy surpasses the size of the emcee’s last two projects in the first-days-of-lockdown experiment of The Social Distance and the chilly, late 2019 release of Winter Tape Vol. 1. Oknice’s effort to make a feel-good record falls short on this album, but that goes without saying it’s not filled with heavy doses of dopamine.