At the end of the month, Ramona Gonzalez is releasing No Sun, her first Nite Jewel album in four years. Recorded after the dissolution of her marriage in 2018, No Sun is both a continuation of Gonzalez’s PhD research into women’s musical lament practices and a very real expression of personal pain. We’ve heard &...

Ruth Radelet, Adam Miller, and Nat Walker — all the members of Chromatics besides Johnny Jewel — have announced that Chromatics have broken up. “After a long period of reflection, the three of us have made the difficult decision to end Chromatics,” their statement reads. “We would like to thank a...

Next month, Ramona Gonzalez will return with No Sun, her first Nite Jewel album in four years. Gonzalez recorded the LP after the end of her marriage and after she started studying to earn her PhD in musicology. We’ve already posted first single “This Time,” and now Gonzalez has also shared another song called &...

Last year, Moor Mother, the experimental alter ego of Philly-based Camae Ayewa, unveiled a surprise collaborative album with billy woods called BRASS. It followed two other 2020 collaborative efforts, one with Ayewa’s avant-jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements and one in partnership with Mental Jewelry.

Nite Jewel, the indie project by Ramona Gonzales, is back with her first album in four years, No Sun. The vulnerable lead single “This Time” is out today. Her isolated vocals work as the centerpiece against modest, bubbling synths that gradually take the song to an otherworldly place.