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Album Review: The Way the Light Looks by Eligh & FAZE.ONE
Forty-six and content with no repeats, Eligh writes fatherhood and recovery plainer than the nanobot and matrix conceits he hangs beside them.
8 hrs ago
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Shatter the Standards
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Harry Brown
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Deciphering Jourden’s “The $triker”
On a single that opens with a cry for help on a Brooklyn corner, the rapper narrates her own drugging and knife-in-the-back escape, then spends four…
12 hrs ago
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Words Past da Margin
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Okoye
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Deciphering Tierra Whack’s “WAX PAPER”
On her first solo single in two years, the Philadelphia rapper turns a Conductor Williams loop into a two-and-a-half-minute homophone barrage and makes…
20 hrs ago
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Words Past da Margin
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Blaise Freeman
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Don’t Comment on My Body, Do Not Reply
Opening night of the Eternal Sunshine Tour in Oakland produced one of the best vocal performances of Ariana Grande’s career, and the replies from the…
Jun 8
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Shatter the Standards
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Tai Lawson
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Album Review: in this body by Sparklmami
Cut live and mostly in single takes, Sparklmami’s debut moves between Spanish and English over a band steeped in boleros and 1970s Brazilian jazz.
Jun 8
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F. Qureshi
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Album Review: THEE IMMACULATE by Thurz & 14KT
Thurz is a brawler and a block-level storyteller, and his peaks have real teeth, a murdered ice cream man, plus a pawned watch and a flat-out colorism…
Jun 8
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Shatter the Standards
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Tariq Belson
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Album Review: A Little Bit of Me by Mica Millar
Cut live with a band of soul, blues, and jazz players in Provence, Mica Millar’s second album moves between plainspoken desire and the language of the…
Jun 8
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Shatter the Standards
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Raya Sinclair
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The Uncensored Nature of Millie Jackson
She never achieved a reputation in some countries on par with her popularity among American and British audiences, but Millie Jackson deserves far…
Jun 8
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Blackpolitan
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Monica LaSalle
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What Happens When R&B Stops Pretending to Be Chill
Steve Lacy narrates his own heartbreak, Fana Hues isn’t sure she’d know love if it hit her, Ama runs the seduction, FLO threatens a boyfriend, and BOY…
Jun 7
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Soulpolitan
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The Handguide to ALT-R&B (2010-2015)
We spotlight the important releases from 2010 through 2015 that defined the Alternative R&B movement and provocative albums that, while influenced by…
Jun 6
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Shatter the Standards
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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Phil
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Shanté
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James Anthony Carmichael Built the Records Everyone Else Sang On
He turned a Tuskegee party band into a ballad machine and piano demos into number ones, and his name stayed in the small type the whole time.
Jun 5
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Renée Holloway
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Album Review: Therapy Wasn’t Enough by Inayah
Inayah’s fourth album turns a public breakup into a grievance she can’t stop airing, and the writing goes slack the minute she decides to forgive him.
Jun 5
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Jen Mauvais
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