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Album Review: Push & Paint by Bruiser Wolf & Sheefy McFly
Detroit’s funniest drug rapper and a painter who moonlights as a producer spend less than thirty minutes proving that wordplay can substitute for depth…
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Nia Lattimore
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Album Review: You’re Free to Go by Anjimile
On his third album, Anjimile splits open between devotion and disownment. He trades The King’s fury for something harder to fake: the courage to mean it…
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Zaria Farah
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Album Review: For Mary by Olive Jones
The Dorset soul singer spent a decade writing for people she couldn’t save. Her first album is the sound of showing up anyway.
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Seraphina Joy Clarke
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Album Review: Monica by Jack Harlow
An album named after a ‘90s R&B icon, made by a rapper who can barely sing, Jack Harlow scrapped four singles, abandoned rap entirely, and focused on…
Mar 13
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Alexandria Elise
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Milestones: My Melody by Deniece Williams
Thom Bell’s last willing student brought her Pentecostal soprano to Sigma Sound and recorded an album that treats romantic self-deception as its own…
Mar 13
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Aicha Odilia
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Album Review: SOUTH LDN LOVER GIRL by Ms Banks
Ms Banks spent twelve years earning a debut, and filled it with every version of herself she’d been withholding. None of them blinked. Love songs…
Mar 12
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Ameenah Laquita
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New Music Drops: March 13, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of March 13th. We know it can be…
Mar 12
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Album Review: LK99 by Leven Kali
Leven Kali built four songs on Renaissance, plus a song on Cowboy Carter, and makes a compact case for remembering his name. LK99 asks for permission a…
Mar 12
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Jamila W.
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Album Review: I Guess U Had to Be There by ELUCID & Sebb Bash
A Backwoodz-Lausanne connection born from an Alchemist cosign and sealed over sandwiches in the park. ELUCID has never sounded this direct, and Sebb…
Mar 12
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Mina Abdel
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Album Review: 20nothing by Blessing Jolie
A Katy, Texas dropout talks to exes and dead-end futures with the same flat certainty. The debut is here with no apologies, a songwriter too stubborn to…
Mar 12
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Zoe Westfield
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Album Review: Trying Times by James Blake
Blake’s first independent album trades minimalist cool for raw admissions about love dying and wanting to live. It’s the most specific he’s ever been.
Mar 12
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Charlotte Rochel
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Album Review: Live at Glasshaus by Annahstasia
Annahstasia turned a Brooklyn studio into a confessional booth and forgot to install the partition. She rarely writes lyrics down, proving she didn’t…
Mar 12
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Sydni Carter-Reed
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