Philadelphia’s practicing attorney and EDM producer DJ Cards takes a massive, unexpected detour into the dark on his new single, "No Way Out." Usually known for crafting uplifting, cinematic progressive house under his "Lawyer Who Drops Beats" moniker, he traded the bright neon mainstage for a dimly lit, suffocating underground bunker here. https://open.spotify.com/track/0bjN8SWSTpx8Q16edUzpPC?si=d4e0d6817d3c469c The shift is violently jarring in the best way. The track ditches traditional melodic...

There is a specific kind of atmospheric pressure that descends in December, and with Mick J. Clark dropping his single "It's Christmas Party Time ", the barometer just shattered. Clark isn’t exactly a stranger to the heavy machinery of the music industry what with his major publishing ties and that serious brush with the Grammy conversation for his album Causes but here, he isn’t...