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New Music Drops: June 19, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of June 19th. We know it can be…
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Album Review: Overture by Glenn Lewis
Love shows up priced, doubted, and half-regretted across Overture, voiced as often from a woman’s side as Glenn Lewis’s own. It is his clearest-eyed…
 • Shatter the Standards and Sydni Carter-Reed
Mixtape Review: WHACK'S MUSEUM by Tierra Whack
Tierra Whack’s first project since WORLD WIDE WHACK runs on homophones and name-flips. It’s her densest writing yet, and the grief sits right under the…
 • Shatter the Standards and Blaise Freeman
Mixtape Review: Resurrection by Chlöe & Timbaland
Across her mixtape with Timbaland, Chlöe runs every romance, from seduction to kiss-off to confession.
 • Shatter the Standards and Brielle Saint-Amour
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…
 • Shatter the Standards and Tabia N. Mullings
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.
 • Shatter the Standards and Darryl Keyes
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.
 • Shatter the Standards and Imani Raven
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.
 • 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.
 • 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…
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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…
 • 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.
 • Shatter the Standards and Nehemiah
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