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Album Review: THE NAIJAMERICAN DREAM by Adanna Duru
Courtesy of broke.
A therapist advised Adanna Duru to put it all behind her, but she didn’t like the piece of advice very much. There must be something in the Nigerian-American singer raised in Orange County that encourages her to dwell on...
Album Review: I Can See by Nick Hakim
Courtesy of Earseed Records.
The rough draft of the title song took him twenty minutes; the final four years. “An experiment of how time moves, and we change” is the description of the song by Nick Hakim, and what he tried to achieve over...
Album Review: Did the Rain Stop? by Felix Ames
Courtesy of Reunion Records.
Felix Ames set up his recording studio in his mother’s basement during a period when he didn’t travel much, and the songs he recorded there became 7711, one of the first efforts in his discography. The equipmen...
Album Review: Ego Ruins Everything by Kenyon Dixon
Courtesy of Kenyon Dixon.
K-Ci Hailey sang “Cry for You” as if the crying had started already. And ‘90s R&B developed an entire wing with men like him in mind. They cried, they begged, they fell on their knees and were loved harder for eve...
Album Review: Outdated by Chenayder
Courtesy of Alamo Records, LLC/Sony Music Entertainment.
The three years between writing and listening to these songs were difficult in Orlando, where most of them were composed during the author’s sixteenth birthday, when the world was on...
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Shatter the Standards sparks discussion around albums and new music that mainstream outlets often overlook, elevates the next generation, provides context, and keeps hyperbolic industry chatter out of the room.
I'm a writer at heart, but music is my drug. Closed mouths don't get fed. For MC.
THĒO. I’m a Full Sail alumnus, trained writer, vinyl obsessive, and GROAVEN/REI Tastemaker Council/Shatter the Standards’ primary architect.
People read about you and think you're on top of the world, have everything you want, and can have any woman you want when you're not.
"Never underestimate your power to take your life in a new direction."
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Joelle loves the messy draft of a career and says so with care.
I write about stuff I love—how it is built and which choices make it last.
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