There is a peculiar friction to the digital textures of Skylarka and her new album, "Somnorine". It’s supposed to be chiptune-influenced synthwave, but listening to it feels less like browsing the internet and more like chewing on aluminum foil while watching Blade Runner on a CRT monitor that’s slowly degaussing. It’s a sensory contradiction bright, crystalline pop hooks wrestling with the deep, existential dread...

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....