Hip hop musician, songwriter, and composer Alicia Kristina Guastaferro, popularly known as Alicia G, is from Buffalo, New York. Alicia G is the epitome of the pop-culture world, with a refined sense of style honed over years of pageantry. https://open.spotify.com/artist/6B1EORFG9OJdxcjGL4ljxY In fact, by the time she was fifteen years old, Alicia had already been participating in beauty pageants around the country since she was eleven months old....

North Star Union has released "Echoes of decay", a slice of melodic heavy metal that feels less like a standard studio tracking and more like something dug out of the permafrost. There is a curious quality to Icelandic composer Myrmann’s work here; because he handles all the instrumentation and composition himself at Midgard Studio, the track possesses a singular, frighteningly cohesive nervous system. It...