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Listen: ESAI teams with Duncan Burnett for new song about time traveling

You don’t see a lot of sci-fi themes in local music, but fear not. ESAI is here to fulfill your geeky needs. The self-proclaimed environmental

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HighWesthus has released an epic short film and corresponding album

The amount of effort, time, and energy HighWesthus has continues to baffle us. Last year, instead of releasing just one album, he released three at

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Mac Lethal rapped about the Theory of Relativity

Kansas City rapper Mac Lethal is no stranger to viral fame. His “27 Styles of Rapping” video racked up more than 11 million hits on

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Duncan Burnett celebrates his family in new music video

We can’t seem to let a month go by without seeing something spectacular from Duncan Burnett. On the heels of a series of striking Summer

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Milkdrop tackles gentrification in new music video

Our album reviewer Nathan Cardiff couldn’t have described MilkDrop’s album, The Leavenworth Story, any better. In his album review, he states: “An epic in social

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Album Review: Milkdrop – “The Leavenworth Story”

How does one analyze The Leavenworth Story while attempting to do it justice? An epic in social commentary that at one time works on a local

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Album review: Khrystal – “The Awkward Muva”

Khrystal’s excellent The Awkward Muva kicks off with a glowing guitar on “Badu;” a cloud that her vocals drift on. Autobiographical lyrics delivered without irony,

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Photo Gallery: Duncan Burnett x RIOT / Ebony Tusks / Raymond

Duncan Burnett can do it all. One moment, the highly accomplished performer is rapping into the mic. The next, he's plucking away on the bass
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Review: Supa Flowa – “The Supa Flowa” EP

Recently I discovered a feeling of nostalgia I hadn’t experienced in years for the Midwest; memories of summer and the landscape and hot nights and

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Photo Gallery: I Heart Local Music Magazine Launch Party

The Bad Ideas / Photo by Ailecia Ruscin To celebrate the launch of our quarterly print magazine, I Heart Local Music invited three local acts