Singer and songwriter Hailey Knox first built a following with acoustic guitar-and-loop-pedal meditations on hits by artists including Adele, the Weeknd, and Justin Bieber in the mid-2010s. Accompanying her guitar performances was a soulful voice that quickly drew comparisons to artists like Sheryl Crow and Ingrid Michaelson. She released her debut EP, A Little Awkward,…
Stakes Is High
After such a long absence, one of my favorite rap music groups, De La Soul has finally won the rights to their masters and now uploaded their catalog to streaming services for all to enjoy. With almost 3 million monthly listeners on Spotify alone, and 12 million streams already registered in their first week of…
Group Hug
Horace Bray is a guitarist and singer based in NYC. A graduate of the University of North Texas Jazz Program, Horace now spends his time exploring jazz-adjacent genres and teaching.
In this age of streaming, it's easy to put together a playlist for your listening pleasure. But back in the day, it was an important thing to build your album so that the listener could play it from start to finish with no skips. Here's my list of #NoSkip albums I can still listen to,…
How Much Can A Heart Take
He projects a widescreen vision of R&B. His full-spectrum view encompasses everything from the explosive funky bombast to the soulful croon of seventies favorites and the turn-of-the-century swagger inherent in mid-to-late nineties classics. As a result, he emerges with a signature sound of his own that stretches from soulfully smoked out to enigmatically energetic. Lucky…
Doctor's Orders
Fading
Elijah Fox is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and producer based in Los Angeles, CA. He grew up in Durham, NC and studied piano at Oberlin Conservatory. His piano composition "East Village" was sampled by Drake and 21 Savage on "Major Distribution" reaching number 3 on the Billboard Charts. Fox has also recorded/produced for Masego, YG, ScHoolboy…
Self Medication
I've always been a fairweather fan of Logic. I've always recognized his skills, but it wasn't until his latest release, College Park that I really got to see how dope he really is. And his dopeness is on full showcase with Self Motivation, where his flows over a Statik Selektah beat with the assist from Redman and, believe…
Darkest Hour
I think I first heard Sevdaliza in the background of a tv show. I just know the song "The Darkest Hour" was extremely haunting and atmospheric. I loved it. Not my usual speed, but dope none the less.
Sevda Alizadeh, known professionally as Sevdaliza, is an Iranian-Dutch singer, songwriter, record producer, visual artist, and director. In…
Oakaliens
Building off of my last music release, Lo Quality Theory, I decided to stay in the lo-fi space with this upcoming 2023 album, Kneel Before Todd. Lo-fi has always been my space, even when I was in the boom-bap vibe. So this feels like I'm in my element. I was planning on releasing this on February…