You hear the first strike of the drum and instantly know this is not a history lesson. Folk music often gets treated with too much reverence, placed carefully on a pedestal where no one can touch it. Remon Nakanishi takes a completely different approach. He grabs these centuries old communal songs, drags them into the studio, and surrounds them with some of the most infectious...

When childhood friends Courtney Leo (vocalist) and Michael Bozzo (multi-instrumentalist and producer) formed THROES NYC, they seemingly tapped directly into a mainline of late-night Queens static to forge their new EP, "The Wires Out". Calling their self-described "altriphop" sound a simple blend of trip-hop and electronic alt-pop feels too sterile for a release this brilliantly frayed. https://open.spotify.com/album/30MTYDwz0rYmKukmH7ibpQ?si=NQZuIR4SRV2OBL1xo8W3pA These tracks revel in the messy circuitry of human...