After the man of many monikers had accomplished 15 aliases, it was due time he released music under his given name and it truly is the most self realized accomplishment Liam has ever had the pleasure of giving the world. “This album is the realest and most me I’ve been, and it has bits of all my other music in it although Carson Clay & Take Care inspired this album the most of my projects.” Says the 21 year old musician who has truly shown us a range of sounds across his career thus far....

There are always artists who blow up off one album and then plateau from there. In some cases, they’ll release a deluxe for said album, and it’ll keep the brand going until the “moment” has passed. But once an artist has done both of those things and then dropped an EP to the same level of praise, you know they’re here to stay. The 6-track EP titled “Avant Nova” is only a precursor to slayr’s upcoming album “Fabula Nova,” and what it lacks in runtime, it makes up for in absolute bangers. As...

Ask Brooklyn-based rapper rivan where his name comes from and you get a family tree with a folk tale tangled in the roots. It is his father's middle name, borrowed from Rip Van Winkle, the old story about a man who would rather do anything than his chores, drinks himself into a decades-long sleep, and wakes up to find the world has carried on wthout him. Where Rip Van Winkle slept through his own life, rivan has spent the past few years determined to stay very much awake for his. That...