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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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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In a video packed with myriad cinematic influences, the neo-soul and hip-hop duo wages a war against superficiality that spares no one.
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The new "it" guy of that place where R&B and hip-hop overlap showed why he's attracted so much attention at NPR Music's SXSW showcase at Stubb's.
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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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The rapper, whose songs are shaped by his experiences as a youth in Long Beach, Calif., brought charisma, comedy and a touch of cynicism to the stage at NPR Music's SXSW 2016 showcase.
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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.