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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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. -
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." -
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. -
Watch the video in which the psychedelic soul multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter uses her body and music as mechanisms for contrast. -
The young French-Brazilian singer-songwriter-producer continues his foray into new dimensions of soulful futurism. -
The great British soul singer and production wiz refashions his vocal from the EDM house hit into a weighty throwback. -
Watch the Ethiopian-raised singer/musician go it alone, as she contemplates the fragility of humanity, and reminds us of the magnitude of being one out of many. -
Latest offering from Los Angeles-based R&B singer would fit seamlessly on a compilation album of Miami bass hits from two decades ago. And that's a good thing.
