By Divine Right, photo Catherine Stockhausen
By Will McGuirk
“Overall, this song is a reminder that nothing…is surface deep." - Haviah Mighty
“You’re done conforming, you’re done caring, you’re over the hanging weight of shame, disappointment, or unchecked goals. You’ve let go, and it’s the most freeing feeling you’ve ever experienced. You just don’t give a shit, and it’s fucking great.” - Tarek Jafar, The Blue Stones
Ria Mae with Virginia to Vegas at the Biltmore Theatre Thursday Nov. 24 2022
By Will McGuirk
We are not our faces, we may not even be our voices, we are many, and most of all we are a blend, and more and more we are hearing non-genre music, neither this nor that, hip nor hop, rhythm nor blues, but a blend of voices and faces, nearing the one, hearing the all.
“When I wrote ‘On Me’, I was inspired by reading about how face recognition technology was being used by law enforcement and then that got me thinking about the myriad ways surveillance has become normalized in everyday life.” - Cadence