Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Alphonse rolls ...

From the outset, Alien Boy’s melodies sound grander, their songs more ambitious and widescreen, than on previous records. The instrumental opener “Scrub Me Clean” is something like an overture, a ...

While Performing Belief is a new tack for Krivchenia, he’s made music like this for years, the kind that has the germ of an idea but doesn’t know what to do with it. Take “Undesigned,” which opens the ...