SPOTLIGHTS

It’s 8:00 a.m., and we’re conducting a final equipment check. Scattered throughout the hotel room floor lay nests of extension cords, tangled headsets, and tripods that threatened anyone careless enough not paying attention. Production mornings are always hectic, no matter how much you prepare the night before, and our night before was 4 hours on the road, driving through rain and fog in the swampy Louisiana terrain. So that, on top of the inevitable ghost stories it inspired

Olivia Dean enchants listeners in new album Live at the Eventim Apollo

Album Art for Common Human Soul & Photo by Jasmine Kerbel Yanniv Frank is sitting down in front of a camera in New York, getting ready to do something way outside his comfort zone. He settles down at his piano and with a huge grin begins singing a short song he composed . This was Frank getting ready to become a recording artist. I sat down with Frank right before his first EP made its debut. We were separated by a hundred miles and an unstable internet connection, yet his wa

Hershawn Arora is learning how to pave his own way in music. The Canadian rapper has been writing music for years, and he is finally ready to release his debut album Hopeless Romantic . “[As a kid] I started watching the music videos of Eminem and trying to transcribe the lyrics on my computer,” Arora said. “I was just so obsessed with how he made the words work with each other.” His fascination with lyrics and rhythm was the beginning of Arora’s interest in music. He would w

One night, Victoria Groff opens Spotify, chooses a playlist and closes her eyes. "Shy Wind" , by the South Korean band Fully Bold , starts to play, and something sparks. It’s that rush of inspiration that only occurs whenever you encounter something bold, unique- something that you never knew you needed. At that moment, the only thing Groff could think about was creating a melody to the story she began to envision. The spark, which began with a song written by a duo thousands

I sat down with Sarah Catharine following the release of her debut single “That’s A Lie” back in February. In anticipation of her newest single, “i’d be dead too” releasing on May 7th here is a look back on our conversation. Sarah Catharine, Canadian based singer and self taught music producer, released her debut single “That’s A Lie” after releasing music on Soundcloud and posting covers to TikTok . The song details an ill-fated relationship with its style somewhat reminisce