From the German city of Delmenhorst, DJ Snudi has dispatched "Sugar Daddy," a single that lands with the curious thud of a velvet-wrapped brick. The track presents itself as a straightforward club banger, but listening to it is like trying to have a serious conversation in a room where someone keeps changing the lighting from sterile white to a pulsing, humid red. It’s disorienting,...

Marjorie Huot, a talented artist originally from San Diego who now lives and works in Los Angeles and is known to her expanding legion of fans simply as Kanitha. Kanitha is a musical prodigy from the West Coast whose life story illustrates the importance of perseverance, self-reflection, and the transformational power of art. While the rest of the world was quarantined, she made the conscious...