Ian Ureta

There’s a rare and deeply underappreciated serenity that settles in when you start a rap album and realize that it has absolutely no interest in being a TikTok trend. No trap-snare tantrums engineered for 15-second dopamine loops. No wink-wink challenges for teenagers in LED-lit bedrooms. No frantic metaphors desperately auditioning for a slot on a […]

This is actually an album, and a damn good one at that. Hailing from Goldsboro, NC, T.E.E and T-Quail have somehow managed to take two completely different life paths and turn them into a cohesive, deeply personal project that smacks you in the face with raw emotion, introspection, and just the right amount of “I’m

There are two types of bands in this world; those who make tight, focused albums with a clear sense of purpose and those who make 18-track double LPs because they physically cannot stop themselves from making music. Road Movie Dream is what happens when a band sets out to record a single album over a

ZZ Ward has always been kind of a blues artist, but she’s also kind of been a rock artist and kind of a pop artist all throughout her career. As of now, well, that’s over… because Liberation is the sound of ZZ Ward finally giving up on trying to be palatable and instead deciding to

Hip-hop has always been a genre of bravado. Arguably from the peak of Run DMC, the first big stars and the forefathers of hip-hop in general, hip-hop has been defined by flexing over your lyrical skills over head-bumping beats. If you’re a killer MC, you can go far. Enter Gemspit Exquisite. This is a scrappy