By Kenlie Golleher Rap Music Director Coming into SXSW, I knew I was going to be in for a treat as a hip-hop fan. Going to a few free showcases last year as someone without a badge, I already knew that having full music badge access to shows and being there for the whole week was going to be insane. With showcase announcements rolling out weeks prior and my […]
By: Kenlie Golleher Rap Music Director During SXSW, I got the wonderful opportunity to sit down with Chicago-based artist and rapper McKinley Dixon to discuss new music as well as his time at the festival. I was first introduced to Dixon upon reading the lineup of the SPIN showcase that would be headlined by Killer Mike. I decided to do some research on the said lineup, and that’s when I […]
By Kenlie Golleher Rap Music Director Getting accepted to cover SXSW as a music journalist has been the highlight of my year so far. With numerous artists from all around the world coming from industries ranging from music, film, tech, and beyond, SXSW is the home base for creatives and professionals alike to showcase their talents. This will be my first time attending the annual SXSW festival, and I […]
By Kenlie Golleher Rap Music Director Saskatchewan-native singer-songwriter Andy Shauf has a true gift for storytelling through concept albums. His latest 2023 project, Norm, further proves that statement. It’s the crazy story of a guy named Norm, who essentially is a stalker. Elements of God and Christianity are intertwined throughout the narrative as well, with Shauf posing the record's motivating question to be, “What if God didn’t understand what […]
By Kenlie Golleher Rap Music Director 2022 saw a lot of hot releases from the rap community, two in particular from artists that I love immensely and bump often, which would be Atlanta’s very own JID and Smino. The Forever Story by JID and Luv 4 Rent by Smino were some of my favorite albums that dropped last year, so when announcements for the duo’s co-headlining tour, the Luv Is […]
By Kenlie Golleher Rap Music Director This year has already started off strong for music fans, with Lil Yachty releasing one of the most adventurous and creative projects I have seen come out in a very long time. Lil Yachty, who is often referred to by his alter ego alias, Lil Boat, first started making waves in the hip-hop community back in 2015 after releasing songs such as “One Night” […]
Kenlie Golleher Rap Music Director Cleveland-rapper Kid Cudi has crash-landed right here in Austin, Texas for the 10th stop on his 2022 To The Moon World Tour. This will be his fifth concert tour and first-ever arena tour. Aside from his appearance at Austin’s SXSW film premiere earlier this year for his 2022 slasher film, “X,” this will be the first time he has returned to Austin for a concert […]
By Kenlie Golleher Rap Music Director Earlier this year, L.A. rapper Kendrick Lamar made a huge comeback by releasing his highly anticipated and long-awaited fifth studio album, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. This album comes almost five years after the release of his critically acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning fourth studio album, DAMN., released in 2017. After the album dropped, plans for a supporting tour, appropriately named The Big Steppers Tour, were quickly […]
By Kenlie Golleher Rap Music Director Earlier this year, Florida rapper Denzel Curry released his highly anticipated fifth studio album Melt My Eyez See Your Future, an introspective record that Curry himself described as “the end of an era”. Curry finds himself moving past his previous alter egos and bodies of work and instead embraces his authentic self. "I'm not trying to be Zeltron. I'm not trying to be Aquarius […]
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