Oddly Satisfying: Ky Newman & Atlgrandma

Ky Newman is a content creator and producer on the podcast Emergency Intercom. atlgrandma is the artist Liam Hall, a key figure in Los Angeles’s leftfield pop community: pensive, digitally curdled music that blends rock, rap, pop, and dance music in new absurdist ways. As a producer, Hall has helped shape the sounds of fellow artists like Willow, Snow Wife, Dorian Electra, The Hellp, D4ine, Izzy Spears, ericdoa, and Frost Children. Frequent collaborators include pop masterminds Lil Aaron and Y2K. Prior to LA, atlgrandma lived in the suburbs of Atlanta, where his family had resettled after being displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Youtube was his playground: He learned to play guitar, produce music, shoot videos and develop basic fine motor skills all at once. Releases like 2019’s "Even If We Don’t Get It Together" and 2022’s "Angelhood" further explored the brain rot of the chronically online, and detailed the dead-end promises of Western cultu