Southern Louisiana Creole visionary Zióna Maré-Laveaux introduces her new single, "FOLD ME LIKE SUNDAY", and honestly, my immediate physical reaction was a sudden urge to lay flat on the floor and cancel all appointments. She calls this entirely original sonic territory ZIONYX™. It is a staggering, humid fusion of Afrobeat, Global Black Sound, and Bayou Soul that flawlessly bridges her ancestral heritage with a...

Listening to 37 Houses and their new EP "Strangers" feels entirely like stumbling into an intensely intimate therapy session that miraculously transforms into a sweat-soaked 90s indie rock show. https://open.spotify.com/album/62NSIkN8J6ijONhErDTwtA?si=izu4NevqSeyI1vEjS9eAxg The San Francisco quartet operates as an open diary for lead singer Erin Sydney and guitarist Jeremy Rosenblum. Trapped in lockdown a mere four months after their wedding, their music processes the bewildering grief, angst, and...