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A Brooklyn artist is redefining honesty in hip-hop, one raw and unflinching song at a time. In an era where much of hip-hop is driven by image, trends, and viral moments, MixEZ is proving there is still an enormous audience for something far more powerful: authenticity. Born Jake Colongione, MixEZ has built a growing global

Jeannette’s Voice Studio helps clients develop confident, healthy, and authentic voices through personalized performance coaching. The voice reveals more than just sound. It can expose fear, discipline, ambition, and the hope that a person is ready to be heard. Jeannette Papadakis has seen that moment in singers preparing for the stage, professionals facing the boardroom,

The Vans Warped Tour opened its 2026 Long Beach weekend on Saturday, July 25, bringing a large, cross-generational lineup of punk, pop-punk, emo, hardcore, alternative rock and related styles to the Shoreline Waterfront in Southern California. The two-day event continues through Sunday, July 26, with festival programming scheduled from late morning into the evening. An

The producer whose classical roots reach back to Rachmaninoff on why value, not talent alone, builds careers. The room can change from song to song. One day, it may hold a first-time artist standing near a microphone, unsure whether the idea in their head can survive the pressure of being recorded. Another day, it may

Bach’s humorous piece, composed for teaching, inspires joyful, reflective, brain balancing music practice. The insightful ebook by Rozalina Gutman “Paradox of invisible dissonance in Fugue-Parody by J.S.Bach” explores Bach’s humor-based teaching approach, that can make music practice more enjoyable, while supporting analytically/emotionally balanced brain involvement and inspiring self-reflection of intangible aspects of the mind through

Oakland’s Mosswood Meltdown concludes its 2026 edition on Sunday, July 19, with Bikini Kill leading the final day of an expanded three-day celebration of punk and independent rock at Mosswood Park. The closing program also features The Return of Jackie and Judy, The Dead Milkmen, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Frightwig and Las Nubes. Filmmaker

Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, poet and actor Jill Scott brings her “To Whom This May Concern” world tour to Brooklyn on Thursday, July 16, beginning a three-show engagement at Kings Theatre. The New York performances are scheduled for July 16, 18 and 19, making the run one of the tour’s most concentrated stops in a single

Building every release around a human story, Koval’s latest single explores the quiet space where love and dreams gently blur into one another. When Praveen Koval began thinking about a birthday gift for his wife, Usha, he did not start with flowers, a card, or a familiar romantic gesture. He began with a question that

Award winning performer Mark Janicello brings ELVIS & ME to London’s West End with a deeply personal celebration of Elvis Presley’s enduring legacy. There are defining moments in every performer’s career when a role becomes something much larger than a performance. For American Renaissance Man Mark Janicello, Elvis Presley became exactly that. What began as

As the creator economy evolves, IMU is building an entertainment platform that puts ownership, flexibility, and independent artists first. The entertainment industry has never offered creators more ways to share their work. Yet for many independent musicians, filmmakers, podcasters, and digital storytellers, reaching an audience still comes with difficult tradeoffs. Revenue sharing, restrictive agreements, fragmented