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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.
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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.
23 hrs ago
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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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Album Review: From Baton Rouge to Babylon by Ronday & Wino Willy
Wino Willy and Baton Rouge rapper Ronday bend Southern theology over Marcberg-school loops.
May 19
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Harry Brown
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Album Review: Inspire Your Idols by Vic Spencer
The South Side rapper who once handed Chance the Rapper’s number around Chicago has spent fifteen years quietly buying back the silence.
May 19
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Album Review: Pink Guitars, Spaceships N Voodoo Dolls by JuJu Rogers
A rapper from a Bavarian Army town quotes Gramsci and shouts “fuck the state” with gold teeth. He calls it Afrophunk, spelled with an H.
May 19
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Miles Everette
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