John Norris is a veteran music journalist who began his career as a writer, editor, correspondent and anchor at MTV News. That was followed by a stint as editor and host at the music discovery site Noisevox, and as Supervising Producer of News at Fuse. His freelance work includes music/culture writing at Billboard, The Daily Beast, VICE, Refinery29, SPIN, Pigeons & Planes & Lyrical Lemonade, and hosting/writing for SiriusXM, GRAMMY.com, SXSW, and the Sasquatch and Bonnaroo music fest podcasts.
"They don’t want you to say what you want to say…but you got to be free!" George van den Broek doesn’t mince words. Right out of the gate, on "Be Free," the opening track of A Day In A Yellow Beat, his second album as Yellow Days, the 21-year-old U.K. singer and songwriter makes it clear that he’s going to…
No Tour? No Problem. Granted, it wasn’t ideal when, back in March, one of Gen Z hip-hop’s brightest rising stars had to slam the brakes on a year that was supposed to include his debut headline tour and first trip to Europe. But Golden Landis Von Jones, known to the world as 24kGoldn, the affable rapper and singer who blew…
Four years ago, a heavily depressed 16-year-old Nepali immigrant living in Calgary named Abhi Bastakoti was told by his grandmother to hang in there, because she had looked at his future, and had a feeling his life would take a turn. She even made a prediction: that her grandson's best year would come at age 20. That’s the kind of…
