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....

Cinnamon Rayne’s single “Caroline” doesn’t drift into your ears; it materializes, like damp chill seeping through a window frame you thought was sealed. This isn't the hazy comfort some dream pop offers. Oh no. This Rochester songwriter has brewed something far more unsettling, an urgent plea cloaked in eerie synth washes and vocals that hover with genuine concern, maybe even panic. https://open.spotify.com/album/3mnoY7Hz9lxIDtFfRE3mJB?si=xWTzRM53Q1yoohZTNzdwGA The sound itself is...