Articles by Michael J. Warren
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges
Texas Sun
PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2020
The pairing of Khruangbin and Leon Bridges is a fairly easy one to conceptualize. Take the clean aesthetic of Khruangbin's grooves and add...
Surprise Chef
All News Is Good News
PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2019
It's hard to square the realities of 2019 with the title All News Is Good News, the debut from Australian instrumental soul band Surprise C...
Tangina Stone
Elevate
PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2017
Elevate is the debut album from Ohio-born, Brooklyn-based Tangina Stone, the followup to her EP The Fall, and the first release on Anastasi...
Rapsody
Laila's Wisdom
PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2017
Snow Hill, North Carolina only has 1,614 residents, but one of them has five mixtapes, three albums, a To Pimp a Butterfly Grammy and, now,...
Mali Music
The Transition of Mali
PUBLISHED Jun 2, 2017
Even after 2014's Mali Is… earned him two Grammy nominations, Mali Music is still humble enough to overtly reintroduce himself mid-song. It...
Will Sessions
Deluxe
PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2017
Many will have first heard the name Will Sessions when they acted as the backing band for Elzhi's 2011 album, Elmatic, a recreation of Nas'...
Tuxedo
Tuxedo II
PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2017
Tuxedo II is the conspicuous continuation of 2015's Tuxedo, the lauded then-side project of Mayer Hawthorne and producer Jake One that foun...
Ronald Bruner Jr.
Triumph
PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2017
It's a shame there's no music industry equivalent to the academic practice of adding letters behind one's name to signify learned experienc...
