Album Review: Jessie Reyez Debuts With Absolute Power…. And Vengeance

Before Love Came To Kill Us! YAS! Even the title of Jessie Reyez’s  is fabulously dramatic like the title of an old, Hollywood film where…

Album Review: The Weeknd Pimps Out In After Hours

  After Hours feels like The Weeknd’s attempt to become 80’s style pimp in Jupiter. Sonically, it is trippy and gritty, cosmic and dirty, beautiful…

Album Review: J.Balvin Acepta Los “Colores” De Una Fiesta

The magic of J.Balvin’s Colores is that it is 100% pure fun. It is J. Balvin completely owning the space where he is played: parties…

Album Review: Conan Gray Walks Down Kid Krow

The music industry in a tizzy because how do you have a “moment” or push a release in a time of pandemic? Do people, actually,…

Artist Close-Up: WENS Is Lemoncholy….. And So Am I

Yes, WENS is inventing a new state of being that I feel is relevant to the world’s current state: Lemoncholy. In her debut EP, Lemoncholy,…

Diandra Interviews Your Smith: Hopefulness Is Happiness

In a world that talks about “needing to be empowered,” what does that, actually, mean? It is has become one of the elusively, poignant terms…

Album Review: William Wild Is Doing “Push-Ups”

William Wild has a voice that makes you look outside a window and say, “Where did the time go?“ Exactly, what many are asking as…

Album of The Month: Now More Than Ever, We Need Some Chilombo

Infusing crystal alchemy singing bowls into the entire album, Jhené Aiko’s Chilombo is absolutely an embodiment of the healing this world is going to need.…

Diandra Interviews JP Saxe: Holding It Together To Hold You

I am really happy for JP Saxe. I remember seeing him when he was an opener’s opener, and introducing himself to a crowd with lines…

Diandra Interviews Allie X: Creating And Healing At Cape God

I had the pleasure to interview Allie X, despite unfortunate circumstances. As more and more tours are postponed or cancelled and artists worry whether their…

Diandra Interviews Maggie Miles: Focus On The Music To Make Clear Your Business

I really like Maggie Miles, and I found her interview to be, particularly, important in these times as an artist. The music industry is still…

Album Review: renforshort Has Got Teenage Angst Covered

renforshort rises amongst the ranks of GEN Z artists singing to a very real fact about being GEN Z: disillusionment. Today’s youth is incredibly perceptive,…

Album Review: Låpsley Will Take Us Through Water

The biggest aid and detriment to Låpsley’s has been people’s comparison to her as “The New Adele.” First, Adele is still here. Second, what such…

TV Review: Little Fires Everywhere Reanalyzes The Power of Motherhood

If there is one thing I LOVED about Little Fires Everywhere, Hulu’s newest show and adaptation of Celeste NG’s critically acclaimed novel, it is that…

Album Review: Kordelya Esta Mal Hecha… Y Me FASCINA!!!!!!!!!

Kordelya is bringing a scintillating take to electro-pop with her debut, Mal Hecha. This sugary genre is usually tossed as blissfully delusional; the songs you…