A crowd of protestors were gathered outside of Mayor Muriel Bowser’s house in 2020, calling on the city to defund the Metro Police Department (MPD) as music drifted over the crowd. In the middle stood OnRaé LaTeal, a local musician playing songs from her album “The...
Prizefighter” is a good pop album–just not a great folk one Mumford & Son’s 2009 album “Sigh No More” was revolutionary for folk music and is widely credited with bringing sounds of folk music back into the mainstream, making the band one of the most influential...
For several weeks, the song “Walk My Walk” by Breaking Rust topped Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, alongside a number of songs by Caine Walker. All of these charting songs were written and performed by AI, becoming part of a growing trend of AI “artists”...
I was a huge Taylor Swift fan growing up–my first iPod only had two full albums on it: One Direction’s debut album and "1989". Those two albums played on repeat, much to my mom’s chagrin, and though my music taste has changed in the last 12 years, I never stopped...