Seven Shades of Nothing’s new single, “When The Lights Go Down,” offers an incredibly peculiar form of comfort—it’s a soundtrack for deciding, over your third cup of lukewarm coffee, that perhaps global, society-dissolving collapse might actually be a blessed relief. James Cole, the project’s architect, doesn't sound panicked about the approaching end; he sounds incredibly, beautifully bored by everything that led up to it. https://open.spotify.com/album/0Z5K652TNvuB9fpt9Amdut?si=_mevo7tcSGunNpswpfCSsQ This...

From Festival Stages to GoFundMe Campaigns: How Lexa Terrestrial's Surgery Gone Wrong Became Her Most Urgent Musical Statement One way to describe Lexa Terrestrial's song "Die Young" is like looking through an old picture book. Each moment is real, personal, and tinged with a sad ache. Lexa Terrestrial's most recent song, "Die Young," is a powerful call to action covered in a heavy mix of hip-hop...