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New Music Drops: May 22, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of May 22nd. We know it can be a…
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Album Review: Love Is the New Gangsta by 6LACK
On his fourth album, the Atlanta singer-rapper turns the title’s gangsta into the labor of holding grief and not weaponizing it.
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Tunde Albright
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Album Review: Electric Love by Brother Wallace
A debut soul record made of live drums, walking basslines, and a voice that knows when to lean into a sarcastic chorus. The platitudes blunt the better…
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Daliah Green
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Milestones: Pray for Haiti by Mach-Hommy
Mach-Hommy walked back into the Buffalo rap label he helped found in 2012, accepted Westside Gunn’s executive-producer credit, and used the wider room…
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Javon Bailey
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Milestones: What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye
Motown’s most obedient hitmaker stopped taking orders, and the album he fought to release became the label’s conscience.
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Aicha Odilia
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Album Review: This Feels Like Home by Adria Kain
Four years after a Polaris-longlisted debut, the Toronto singer cuts down to eight tracks and finds her stride on the slow ones.
May 20
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Jamila W.
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Album Review: SHOOT DICE NOT PEOPLE by 4FIVE6 NICE & DeevoDaGenius
A Boston rapper who chopped weed on his grandmother’s bathroom floor links with a Lowell producer at a Brockton studio. They report on staying alive.
May 20
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Reiko Oshima
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Wednesday Roundups #150: 25 New Projects You Should Listen to Now
Listen to new releases from Tank and the Bangas, Genesis Owusu, Nick Grant, Tone Stith, Adria Kain, ANKHLEJOHN & V Don, Vic Spencer, Lord Sko & Statik…
May 20
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Album Review: PINE by James Savage
A debut R&B album that argues with itself end to end and turns its second-guessing into the title. The hesitation is the engine.
May 20
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Zoe Westfield
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Album Review: IRIS by Karen Bernod
A Brooklyn singer returns after a decade with a record that grieves less than the rollout promised, and is stronger for it.
May 20
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Imani Raven
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Album Review: Picture Day: A PawPaw Rod Album by PawPaw Rod
Indie-funk that admits, on its second song, that danceable rhythm cannot bring a dead brother back. Most albums this warm refuse to say so.
May 19
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Raya Sinclair
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Album Review: Stephon Barbury by UllNevaNo & Philth Spector
A Baltimore rapper merges his name with a Coney Island point guard’s, and the Philly producer behind him chops less than he repeats.
May 19
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Koda Lin
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