Fiona Apple never quite belonged to a specific scene. The closest she came was at the dawn of her career, when her debut album Tidal arrived as the alternative rock wave reached its crest in 1996. Apple spent her time in MTV's Buzzbin and on tour with Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair revue, earning a hit single ("Criminal") and platinum certification along the way, but she wasn't a folkie or a punk rocker. Her roots lay in jazz, show tunes, and classic '70s singer/songwriters, an idiosyncratic blend that came into sharper focus on her second album, When the Pawn. Upon its release…

Just something about Bad Snacks' melodic sound that really inspires me to make music. She's capture what I hear in my head, and what I try to create. Her joint "Technicolor" stayed in my head rent free for months... just hearing the incredible strings and airy vocal background... Simply marvelous. Her newest joint, "alright, ok" is more uptempo and dance-worthy, but still keeps that heavy string aestethic. I can't get enough ot it. Bad Snacks is an electronic producer/multi-instrumentalist from Boston, Massachusetts. After spending several formative years within the beat scene of LA, she has carved out a lane for herself…

Bokoya is a four-piece Jazz/Hip-Hop band from Cologne who plays improvised beat music. Like a four-headed human drum machine, Bokoya improvise, shape, and develop beats in the electric field of repetition and variation. It's impossible to put a tag on Bokoya's music. BADBADNOTGOOD, Dilla, Krautrock, Ambient and dub might work as rough reference points for the music but don't do it justice. Exposed to music from a young age, FloFilz grew up in Germany and Belgium before moving to Aachen, Germany where he studied the violin and classical music, while also playing in orchestras. He then moved to Berlin in 2020.…

I don't how i missed this song back in 2017. The 9th Wonder production alone got me open. The release of Rap's greatest hits joint, "Goated" has me finding more joints I missed back in the day. Epic!