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Album Review: Live at Glasshaus by Annahstasia
Annahstasia turned a Brooklyn studio into a confessional booth and forgot to install the partition. She rarely writes lyrics down, proving she didn’t…
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Sydni Carter-Reed
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Album Review: Self Proclaimed Narcissist by Self Proclaimed Narcissist
Broke, anonymous, and blunt about both. A debut built on busted guitars and overdrawn accounts that says more about Los Angeles poverty than most…
8 hrs ago
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Kendra Vale
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Milestones: Best Day Ever by Mac Miller
A 19-year-old from Pittsburgh raps like he’s already won, and on this 2011 mixtape, he nearly convinces you.
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Charlotte Rochel
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Wednesday Roundups #140: 25 New Projects You Should Listen to Now
Listen to new releases from Shabaka, Terrace Martin & Marcus Gilmore, La Reezy, DJ Paul, ELIZA, Alicia Creti, Jae Skeese & ILL Tone Beats, Pimmie…
Mar 11
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Album Review: Oda by Daniela Andrade
After fourteen years singing other people’s songs, Daniela Andrade finally recorded the conversation she’d been having with her mother all along. Oda is…
Mar 10
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F. Qureshi
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EP Review: Miami Lice: Season Four by Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman
Eight years off the clock and the two oddest pens in indie rap still won’t explain themselves to anybody.
Mar 10
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Sabine Okafemi
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Album Review: A Rush to Nowhere by Arima Ederra
On her second album, Arima Ederra turns the clock into a conversation partner and keeps asking it questions it cannot answer. It holds still long enough…
Mar 10
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Maya LeRoux
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Album Review: After All by GiddyGang & Vuyo
An Oslo hip-hop band and a South African-Norwegian rapper pool grief, guilt, and busted relationships into a record that knows what it cost them.
Mar 9
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Nyasha
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Album Review: Talk to Her Like This by Alvin Garrett
A Tuscaloosa preacher’s son turns his father’s pillow talk into a ten-song manual for grown men. Alvin Garrett built a concept record about talking to…
Mar 9
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Jen Mauvais
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Musicians at the Heart of the Movement
From Jim Crow highways to bombed churches, musicians endured America’s cruelty. Nina Simone turned that rage into a battle cry in an hour of writing. It…
Mar 9
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Imani Raven
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Lupe Fiasco Talks Lasers, Obama, and Protest (2011 Interview)
About three and a half years after The Cool, Lupe Fiasco is finally back in motion. Real talk from one of the foremost hip-hop commentators of his era…
Mar 8
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Anniversaries: Lasers by Lupe Fiasco
Atlantic held a rapper hostage, and the ransom note became a platinum record. Lupe Fiasco smuggled protest songs inside a pop album his label demanded.
Mar 8
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Nia Lattimore
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