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Album Review: Same Difference by Swae Lee
Pop-rap’s best hired voice finally gets a proper solo album. Most of it sounds like the songs he used to give away.
5 mins ago
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LeMarcus
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Album Review: Ambiguous Desire by Arlo Parks
Parks traded the bedroom for the dancefloor and brought all her worst feelings with her. The songs are better for it.
3 hrs ago
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Charlotte Rochel
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Album Review: Distracted by Thundercat
Sober and still scattered, Thundercat swaps Flying Lotus for an Adele producer and sounds more like himself than ever.
6 hrs ago
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Phil
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Milestones: Donny Hathaway by Donny Hathaway
The 1971 self-titled sophomore album from the soul singer whose borrowed songs became indistinguishable from prayer. Atlantic wanted a crossover act…
8 hrs ago
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Imani Raven
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Album Review: Soundtrack 2 Get Her Back by Jozzy
A hitmaker’s debut that sings to women without explanation. The pen was always there; the nerve is new.
16 hrs ago
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Darryl Keyes
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Milestones: Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite by Maxwell
A self-taught Brooklyn kid made a concept album about monogamy while R&B chased hip-hop, and the label buried it for a year.
16 hrs ago
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Renée Holloway
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Album Review: The Internet Killed the Neighborhood by Marlon Craft
His self-funded fourth album turns a Wi-Fi-addled grievance into something worth grieving. Nobody with a label would have bankrolled it.
Apr 1
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Quinn Baptiste
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Album Review: STBC! III: "Shifa" by cunabear & Steel Tipped Dove
On a record titled after the Arabic word for healing, cunabear builds rooms for others to rest in.
Apr 1
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Lance “LX” Brooks
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Album Review: Masters of the Artistry by Bop Alloy
The MC-producer duo’s third LP runs on 16 years of jazz-rap partnership and the stubborn belief that showing up counts more than blowing up.
Apr 1
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Harry Brown
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Wednesday Roundups #143: 21 New Projects You Should Listen to Now
Listen to new releases from Irreversible Entanglements, rum.gold, Noah Guy, Bellah, dälek, Nickelus F, Olivia Escuyos, chromonicci, Victory, Jozzy…
Apr 1
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March 2026
Album Review: Hagler Hearns by Numbz & Thought Provokah
Thought Provokah maps his career onto Marvin Hagler’s fight record, bout by bout, with real dates and round numbers. The most obsessively researched…
Mar 31
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Joelle Figueroa
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Album Review: Dads at the End of the World by Sole & TELEVANGEL
Sole stopped reading theory and started planting fruit trees. His first LP with TELEVANGEL is the funniest, saddest dad record in rap.
Mar 31
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Wesley Durham
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