A glimpse into the biography of actress Jenna Ortega has arrived in a children’s picture book. Jenna Ortega: A Little Golden Book by by Heather E. Schwartz is a children’s book that offers a glimpse into the Wednesday actresses’ journey from child actress to breakout television and film superstar. The book features illustrations of Ortega’s The post This Latina Illustrated …

El ecosistema musical latino vuelve a ser testigo de la alianza entre Zurdo MC y Lennox, los arquitectos del éxito de Vívela. Picardía, sabor musical y muchas ganas de bailar es lo que se desprende del junte entre los cantantes. ‘Vívela’ es un tema de reparto entre dos figuras que unen Cuba y Puerto Rico para invitar a disfrutar el …

Singing, the April-bound album from Gia Margaret, is her first record since having healed from a vocal injury that left her unable to sing. After a beautiful detour into instrumental and ambient music over the past few years, Margaret returned last month with “Everyone Around Me Dancing,” a mellow pop ballad that put her voice… The post Gia Margaret – …

The New Hampshire producer Maya Bouldry-Morrison has been crafting house tracks under the name Octo Octa since 2011, and she’ll release her new album Sigils For Survival this spring. The LP is Octo Octa’s first since 2019’s Resonant Body, and it marks a full decade since she came out as transgender. She drew a sigil… The post Octo Octa Announces …

Right now, it appears that Compton club-music traveler Channel Tres is on a mission to pay tribute to all the best clubby R&B tracks of the early ’90s. I sincerely support him in this endeavor. A few months ago, Channel Tres released his take on the En Vogue classic “Free Your Mind.” Today, he drops… The post Channel Tres – …

For many years, Alex Edkins led the extremely sick Toronto noise-rock power trio METZ. Now, he’s half of the duo Noble Rot with Holy Fuck’s Graham Walsh, and he makes his own excellent power-pop jams under the name Weird Nightmare. This spring, Edkins will follow Weird Nightmare’s very cool 2023 self-titled debut with a new… The post Weird Nightmare – …

Imagine that you’re at the pool and someone is playing, like, a Dido song incredibly loud on glitchy, damaged YouTube speakers. You stick your head underwater to avoid the sound, but you can still hear it, and it suddenly sounds all blurry and beautiful. The new Full Body 2 single is kind of like that.… The post Full Body 2 …

Carla dal Forno is back. The reliably good Australian singer-songwriter has a new album called Confession coming in April, and today, she’s announcing the follow-up to 2022’s Come Around with the lead single “Going Out.” Dal Forno wrote Confession, which she says is about “a friendship that became emotionally charged in an unexpected way,” in… The post Carla dal Forno Announces New Album …

Rustie, the overwhelmingly influential pop-maximalist Scottish producer, took a long hiatus for mental health reasons after he released his surprise album EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE in 2015. In 2023, he returned with the single “Black Ice Mudra,” and then he disappeared again. More recently, though, he’s been quietly posting new tracks on YouTube, and they show that the… The post Rustie – “Trizkel …

UK rockers Hard-Fi had a big run in the ’00s; their first two albums both went to #1 in their homeland. The band went on hiatus in 2014, and they came back to tour the UK in 2023. In 2024, they dropped an EP called Don’t Go Making Plans. Now, they’ve announced their first new… The post Hard-Fi Announce First …