On her “Feel” song, the single, Ilona has proven to be an even more powerful act portraying both empowerment and the exceptionally feminine side. This is the story of our heroine, Ilona. She comes from a rural town in Minnesota and has Ukrainian and Russian ancestry. It is her mother's recommendation to move to "the big city of" Los Angeles that has made her journey...

There is a specific kind of quiet you find in the Midwest, and listening to Derby Hill and his self-titled release, "Derby Hill", feels like stumbling into that quiet after a long, noisy shift. It’s not the silence of emptiness; it’s the silence of after. After the argument, after the paycheck clears, after the sun goes down over the Detroit skyline or a Chicago...