Southern Louisiana Creole visionary Zióna Maré-Laveaux introduces her new single, "FOLD ME LIKE SUNDAY", and honestly, my immediate physical reaction was a sudden urge to lay flat on the floor and cancel all appointments. She calls this entirely original sonic territory ZIONYX™. It is a staggering, humid fusion of Afrobeat, Global Black Sound, and Bayou Soul that flawlessly bridges her ancestral heritage with a...

Jennifer Silva faces down the machinery of societal exploitation on her searing new single, "Surrounded by Monsters". Known across Brooklyn and Beacon for her powerhouse vocals and her gothic storytelling podcast Through the Forest: Haunting Tales & Ballads, Silva is well acquainted with the horrors that lurk in the dark. Here, though, the predators aren’t hidden away in ancient woods; they are the corporate...