Riley Beggin is the features editor for Jonk Music and a former senior writer. She's got a penchant for what the kids call "the jams," Dairy Queen Crunch Cones, and getting really worked up over historical debates.
Brooklyn-based quartet Bear Hands' sophomore album, Distraction, is studded with enough high-flying '80s-style synths and pealing guitars to soundtrack a John Hughes film. That being said, the alt-pop exemplifi...
Amidst the industry execs and journalistic superpowers, we had the humble pleasure of attending the South By Southwest Music Festival last week in Austin, TX. As we soon found out, the trick to navigating SX's ...
With "Garden," Field Report's Christopher Porterfield teams up with Milwaukee's lo-fi electronic duo Kiings to create perhaps the best Wisconsin pairing since cheese curds and your mouth. Kiings has been known ...
Wu Lyf's former bassist never explicitly states that his new single is a story of the group's breakup, but it doesn't take a genius to connect the dots.
Following the Manchester band's dissolution in late 20...
Johnnyswim — husband-and-wife singer-songwriter duo Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez — has been gracing the headlines of some of the most trafficked music news outlets in the country. VH1, NPR, and The Tonight S...
Ben Khan is the dark horse of electronic R&B. Not even an EP has come out of this British-born Kashmir artist, but his mystique only adds to his allure — his three SoundCloud-released tracks are being consu...
Minneapolis-based rapper Lizzo has stomped through the jungles of plenty of genres — R&B, electro-pop, gospel, and indie rock are all a part of her musical arsenal. Her latest album, LIZZOBANGERS, is an add...
The brainchild of chamber-pop composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone, San Fermin's self-titled debut is a sweeping, operatic concept album that tells a love story of sweetness, sincerity, and complexity. Since the group's...