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Mixtape Review: Resurrection by Chlöe & Timbaland
Across her mixtape with Timbaland, Chlöe runs every romance, from seduction to kiss-off to confession.
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Brielle Saint-Amour
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EP Review: HOWL by Lee Lewis
Lee Lewis builds six soul songs around one affair, from honeymoon to hardened exit. He writes about wanting a man who wrecks him, and you believe every…
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Tabia N. Mullings
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Album Review: Quantum Entanglement by Dreamer Isioma
Dreamer Isioma sings about jumping off the world and begging to be loved in the same breath. Quantum Entanglement turns self-destruction into devotion.
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Darryl Keyes
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Album Review: Saturday Night / Sunday Morning by PJ Morton
His father, a bishop, raised him to keep the club and the church apart. Both halves end up asking who shows up for the man who always shows up.
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Imani Raven
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Album Review: SAKURA by Devin Morrison
A bouquet that ends at knifepoint and a duet about wanting to eat someone. SAKURA turns Devin Morrison’s romantic panic into his richest, strangest R&B.
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Jamila W.
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Album Review: Rise Against My Broken Odds by BabyChiefDoit
BabyChiefDoit is a self-producing 16-year-old who renamed himself Rambo. He turns a kid’s action-hero fantasy into distinctive, self-made Chicago drill.
Jun 17
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Randy
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Wednesday Roundups #154: 15 New Projects You Should Listen to Now
Listen to new releases from Kelsey Lu, Infinity Song, Eloise, Wiki, Melvin Riley, KELS, Ibrahim Maalouf, Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson, Good Girl…
Jun 17
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Album Review: KennyV by Serengeti
Holding a Salisbury steak like a rotary phone one minute and streaming his fits to a chat the next, Serengeti’s Kenny Dennis makes the funniest, saddest…
Jun 16
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Album Review: Born$aviiior by BlackMugen
BlackMugen spends fourteen tracks as a shinobi messiah at war with Satan, and he commits to the cosmology so completely.
Jun 16
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Nehemiah
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Album Review: Surprise Motherfuckers by twogeebs & Action Figure 973
twogeebs turns slasher flicks, the drug corner, and the rap business into punchlines over Action Figure 973’s blunt drums. The menace stays real the…
Jun 16
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Kevin Matthews
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New Rap from Rapsody, Nipsey Hussle, and Maxo Kream
Rapsody crowns the afro, YG opens a men’s group, and Maxo Kream skips the therapist.
Jun 16
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Album Review: Yellow House by Satya
Satya made her debut for the child she was in an abusive Oakland house. It’s a plainspoken soul-and-folk record that survives the house by naming…
Jun 15
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Priya Okafor
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