humanity

Humanity topics include pieces on the real lives of music professionals, amateurs, inspiring students, celebrities, lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories in the music sphere.

🌌 Dream Cartography: Mapping the Subconscious Through Dark Ambient Sound
What if music wasn't just something you listened to—but a place you traveled through? What if each sound was a landmark, each drone a border, each echo a memory buried in the terrain?
By Yokai Circle6 months ago in Beat
🕯 Shadow Listening: Why the Music You Love Might Be About the Parts You Hide
Some songs feel too intense to explain. Not because they’re loud, but because they hit something inside you you weren’t ready to look at.
By The Yume Collective6 months ago in Beat
🪞Hauntology and the Echoes of Forgotten Futures . AI-Generated.
In the fog-drenched halls of dark ambient music, there's a particular kind of ghost that lingers—not just specters of the past, but hauntings from futures we imagined and lost.
By Yokai Circle6 months ago in Beat
Hadestown
A crush friend of mine recently recommended Hadestown to me. I wasn't super excited to listen to it because I wasn't sure I'd like it, but I decided to honor my fellow theatre kid and follow through with listening to it on Spotify.
By K. R. Young6 months ago in Beat
The 2025 Texas Flood: When the River Took Everything
The Rain That Wouldn’t Stop: Texas’ Darkest Summer From July 4 to July 7, 2025, Central Texas—particularly the scenic Hill Country region—faced one of the most catastrophic floods in U.S. history. The sky didn’t just weep. It opened like a broken dam, unleashing nearly four months’ worth of rain in a matter of hours. What followed was a tragedy etched in water, mud, and human loss—especially along the normally tranquil Guadalupe River in Kerr County.
By Jehanzeb Khan6 months ago in Beat
🚪 Between Worlds: Liminality and Threshold Emotion in Dark Ambient . AI-Generated.
There’s a moment before the dream begins. There’s a breath between the inhale and the exhale. There’s a hallway, a mist, a doorway not yet stepped through.
By Yokai Circle6 months ago in Beat
🗺️ Sound as a Place: How Music Becomes Emotional Geography . AI-Generated.
Close your eyes. Think of the last song that truly moved you. Now think: Where did it take you? Not just emotionally—but physically, spatially. Did it drop you into a rainy city at midnight? A sunlit rooftop in summer? An empty bedroom at 2AM? Did it make you feel like you were somewhere else entirely—maybe even a place that doesn’t exist?
By The Yume Collective6 months ago in Beat
The War Room
Introduction My friend Matthew Fromm just published a story on Vocal that made me think of "The War Room" by Public Service Broadcasting which you can read here:
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 6 months ago in Beat
☀️ Dreamy Summer Vibes Vol. 1 . AI-Generated.
When the air gets warmer and the days stretch a little longer, there’s an unspoken magic that settles over everything. It’s in the quiet stillness of early morning light, the soft hum of a fan in the background, or the way sunlight dances on your skin during a lazy walk home. Dreamy Summer Vibes Vol. 1, the latest compilation from The Yume Collective, captures that magic in musical form.
By The Yume Collective6 months ago in Beat
The Lost Children of Syria
They had names, dreams, and toys once. Now, they carry stories of loss, courage, and the long road home. From the dusty border camps of Jordan to the crumbling streets of Aleppo, the children of Syria wander through a world that no longer remembers what peace feels like. Once surrounded by school bells and bedtime stories, they now fall asleep to the sounds of explosions, foreign languages, and unanswered questions.
By Nazim Ali7 months ago in Beat
How Mountain Girls Can Love
Introduction While I knew of the events at The Old Coal Yard, I had never been, although friends raved about it. I do like their toilets for all, which means at busy times everyone has to queue!
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 7 months ago in Beat
We Need Music (And Maybe That’s Enough)
Let me tell you something you might have forgotten. Something small. Something invisible, yet louder than the noise in your head.
By Angela David7 months ago in Beat