Kiana Fitzgerald
Kiana Fitzgerald is a freelance music journalist, cultural critic, and DJ. She writes for the world from deep in the heart of Texas.
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We could all use a little extra light, with just a hint of cheesiness. That's exactly what the Brooklyn duo offers in its new video.
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The powerhouse singer and her army of beautifully diverse women turn out a post-apocalyptic land.
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The Chicago rapper's new mixtape, Coloring Book, walks a line between the secular and the religious, bringing gospel sounds to listeners who may not have darkened the doors of a church in a while.
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The Brooklyn rapper-producer's latest instrumental album is evenly weighted from front to back. There's never an off moment — or even a precarious one.
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With her new, scaled-back style, the New Jersey singer-songwriter proves that she can strip away the frills and still make us feel all of the emotions.
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The R&B stalwart has long vibrated on a different wavelength than do his contemporaries; in a turbulent, bruising world, he's stayed rock-steady.
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A young singer-rapper from Atlanta displays her signature hard-edged playfulness and sonic extremes.
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Out of nowhere, Kendrick Lamar dropped a new record this week, called untitled unmastered. Reviewer Kiana Fitzgerald says that listening to these demos "feels like we're playing catch-up."
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In its new video, East London electronic R&B duo pushes a Sade classic to the brink of discomfort by harnessing the song's natural twinge of strangeness, and taking it a step further.
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Watch the video in which the psychedelic soul multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter uses her body and music as mechanisms for contrast.
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The young French-Brazilian singer-songwriter-producer continues his foray into new dimensions of soulful futurism.
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The great British soul singer and production wiz refashions his vocal from the EDM house hit into a weighty throwback.