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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.
5 hrs ago • Shatter the Standards and Jamila W.
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.
9 hrs ago • Shatter the Standards and Randy
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…
17 hrs ago • Shatter the Standards
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 • Shatter the Standards and Harry Brown
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 • Shatter the Standards and Nehemiah
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 • Shatter the Standards and Kevin Matthews
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 • Words Past da Margin
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 • Shatter the Standards and Priya Okafor
Eels, Cakewalks, and the King of Pop
Though his genius was singular, Michael Jackson belonged to the long tradition of American entertainment, fed by African sources. He managed to honor…
Jun 15 • Shatter the Standards and Mina Abdel
Mixtape Review: Xclusiva by MXKA
Singing mostly in Spanish over a sound she calls R&B tumbados, MXKA turns a romance lane built for men into one about flipping the power.
Jun 14 • Shatter the Standards and F. Qureshi
Album Review: HITstory 2: Success Is a Dirty Word by Hit-Boy
Eighteen years into a publishing deal he signed at nineteen, Hit-Boy got free in 2025 and made a record about it. Success here is the prize and the…
Jun 14 • Shatter the Standards and Rian Frost
Nobody’s Coming to Save Us, So Dance Anyway
A four-time Grammy nominee gets political, a Hackney busker stalls at the edge of love, and three women sing themselves out of bad situationships.
Jun 14 • Soulpolitan
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