Listening to Elena C. Lockleis’s new single, “Mind - Vs. - Heart,” feels like witnessing a civil war fought entirely within a single nervous system. The sound is an intimate knot of pop architecture, the kind Julia Michaels patents in her sleep, where a confession arrives not as a ballad but as a skittish, rhythm-driven pulse. You feel the frantic heartbeat right there in...

GrungeCake CEO Richardine Becomes SGT J Official Rep Last week, GRUNGECAKE CEO/Recording Academy New York Chapter member Richardine Bartee announced that she is officially representing SGT J, the producer who made the music behind the now-viral ‘Buss It’ challenge. Born in Tyler, Texas, the 23-year-old rising star producer also made five of the records on her self-titled album—’All of These Hoes’, ‘Toot That’, ‘Hell Naw’, ‘Buss...