Music

Highlights the subjects of vulnerability, love, and homesickness from a core aesthetic grounded in classical-music training, and an abiding love of modern pop.

When friendship tangles up with love and sexuality, anything can happen, and often does.

Mixes a rhumba-flavored rhythmic hook with a slick flow about doing the hard work of self-improvement while also getting away from the rat-race.

Offers a blueprint for anyone that struggles to process emotional hardship without falling prey to a sense of helpless victimhood.

As a commentary on hip-hop culture in Los Angeles, and an example of what raw inspiration looks like, this drop from DMB Gotti is as good as it gets.

Haley Sullivans vocal performance shines with a showcase of some of the tricks she learned from singing her own versions of hits by Ariana Grande.

The truth is a poor substitute for self-congratulation, but it has a better shelf-life.

Sometimes, the hardest thing about loving someone is finding out who they really are; nothing ever really changes. Sunrise, sunset, just try not to get burned.