Coolzey is an artist from Fairfield, Iowa who has been releasing music for about fifteen years. His most recent full-length album came in January of 2020 when he released Fight the American Celebrity Machine. He’s been on a bunch of collaborative tracks and released a few singles since then, but now it’s time for his fifth full-length album, Thank You For Drinking of Me. The fun part of following an artist like Coolzey is that you never know what you’re going to get from release to release from him, because there are so many sides to him as an artist.

Kendra Morris has had a lot of interesting twists and turns throughout her music career. Early on, she found herself singing for Dennis Coffey when he toured his self-titled comeback album in 2011. It was around this time that she got signed to Wax Poetics, and she released two acclaimed albums in 2012 and 2013, Banshee and Mockingbird. Since that time, Morris has seen her label go under, self-released an EP, Babble, in 2016, worked with Czarface on a couple of songs, and gave birth to her child, just to name a few of the highlights.

steel tipped dove is a producer from New York, one who has worked with Armand Hammer, milo, PremRock, and many, many more over the years. Just this past October, he teamed up with Backwoodz Studioz to release his solo album, Call Me When You’re Outside, which features a murder’s row of talent rhyming and singing over his production. Now he’s shifting gears and working with a lesser known artist, Chaz Canairy, to make a full-length album, The Birds.

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio is a group out of Seattle who released their first album in 2016. Since that time, they have firmly established themselves as a crossover success story, through a combination of good promotion from Colemine Records, consistent touring, and just some damn good organ-led jazz. Their last album, I Told You So, came out in January of 2021. Now they are back with their third full-length album, Cold as Weiss.

BLKrKRT is a producer from Fort Worth who has been releasing music for a while, but he has really emerged in the past couple of years as one of the most intriguing artists making instrumental music. Just this past year, he released two challenging and rewarding projects, Black Rock & Roll and Black Rock & Roll II. Now he’s right back with Black Rock & Roll III. As with the previous volumes, the beauty of Black Rock & Roll III is the way that BLKrKRT is able to not only reclaim the term “Rock & Roll” as Black music, but the way in which he’s also expanding the boundaries of what might be called “Rock & Roll” at the same time.

Rosemarie A. Roberts is Dayton Professor of Dance at Connecticut College, where she teaches courses in Afro-Caribbean dance techniques and traditions, dance pedagogy and dance history. She has taught workshops for people of all ages, directed programs and performed to diverse audiences at a variety of venues in the Caribbean and the United States including Yale University, Mount Holyoke College and Howard University. At the School at Jacob’s Pillow, she has taught Afro-Cuban dance.

Paris producer /multi-instrumentalist Quiet Dawn made his debut on First Word Records back in 2014. Since that time, he’s worked on numerous remixes and production for other artists, but his last release as a solo artist came back in 2018, when he released Human Being • The Short Story Of The Reed. Now he’s back with a new solo EP, Movements. For this project, Quiet Dawn specifically worked without a theme or concept, because he just wanted to create whatever came naturally and have fun with it.

Andrew is an artist from Philadelphia who broke through in 2020 when he released W.O.T.W. on Cold Rhymes, produced by Necessary People (Height Keech + ialive). He followed that up with 2021’s Pop 1967 on U Don’t Deserve This Beautiful Art, this time self-produced. He hops labels once again to Three Dollar Pisotal as he gets right back in the saddle and drop another full-length album, The Rain Knows What It’s Doing.

Fiendsh is a producer from Bangkok who has been releasing music since 2014. In 2016, he released his first full-length album, To the End, on Cold Busted. Since that time, he had been relatively quiet, but he is now finally back with a brand new album, Hayashi Reborn. Hayashi is a Japanese word that literally translates to “woods,” but it is often used to connote the group of instrumentalists that accompany Noh theater.

Dan Charnas has worn a few different hats over the years. He worked as A&R at Def American before switching lanes and becoming a journalist who wrote for The Source, NPR, Billboard, and others. His first book, The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, came out in 2010, and instantly became required reading for hip hop nerds everywhere. Since that time, he has become Associate Arts Professor at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University, where a few years back he began to develop a course on the great Detroit producer J Dilla.