With her spellbinding album Asha's Awakening, the bisexual Indian-American pop singer reaches new heights — and steps just a little closer toward enlightenment. Jason Lamphier is a senior editor at ...

Ashton Nyte fell in love. He essentially fell for everything—the bands, albums, songs, theatrics—that made him develop the Awakening in the mid-1990s, while still living in South Africa. “I fell in ...

“In all honesty, I’ve needed to stay sane,” Nyte shares with American Songwriter. “Without touring or even regular human interaction, the best thing for me to do is to keep creating before I ...

30 years ago today, one of the most criminally underrated albums of the mid 90s quietly reshaped the way heads listened to lyricism and production. On this date in 1996, Lord Finesse released his ...

In the analogue age, it would have been hard for a musician as omni-dimensional as Chicago’s Andrew Vogt to build a credible profile embracing the sweep of genres in which he is active. Back then, ...