“How Will I Rest In Peace If I'm Buried By A Highway?” by Kenny Hoopla

"How Will I Rest in Peace if I'm Buried by a Highway?" gave KennyHoopla, the recording name of American musician Kenneth La'ron, both the title of his EP and his breakthrough. Arista issued it as the EP's title single on February 4, 2020, and it became the first of his songs to win real radio attention and to chart, climbing to 8 on Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart.

La'ron wrote and recorded it in the back half of 2019, from a place of deep self-doubt, as he tells it, and he has said indie rock has an aura and an energy he can't quite explain but feels inside himself. Here he chases it at full sprint: the song tears along in E major at 160 beats per minute, a tempo that can just as easily settle into a half-time 80.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.