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Album Review: Behind the Shades by Chris Crispy
The Los Angeles producer and engineer sings lead on his own soft R&B songs about crushes, contact highs, and confessions he keeps putting off. The…
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Album Review: Caribenya by Lido Pimienta
A year after her Gregorian-chant classical album, the Colombian-Canadian artist opens her door to cumbia, dembow, and friends.
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F. Qureshi
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Album Review: Out the Mud by MudBaby Ru
MudBaby Ru raps with the whole family in the room, Pop’s fingernails, an uncle at the stove, Granny fussing about sagged jeans. Out the Mud is a West…
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Rian Frost
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Wednesday Roundups #158: 25 New Projects You Should Listen to Now
Listen to new releases from Nao Yoshioka, Ambré, Kamal., Nia Archives, Adrian Younge, Avara, Orquesta Akokán, ABBIANA, Dame Atlas, Brian Ennals …
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Album Review: sum breakup songs by Dru Kelly & Stix
A marriage that ran ten years ends in songs about Percocets, purple crayons, and a broken-ass Altima. Dru Kelly’s breakup writing is messy on purpose…
Jul 21
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Blaise Freeman
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Album Review: if i’m being honest by Dame Atlas
Dame Atlas produced nearly all of his confession himself and aimed song after song at the woman who kept coming back.
Jul 21
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Brielle Saint-Amour
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Album Review: REVIVAL by LADIPOE
The Nigerian rapper bends Afropop’s melody-first formula around testimony, prayer, and score-settling in three languages. REVIVAL runs on the conviction…
Jul 21
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Maya LeRoux
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Milestones: The 2 Live Crew Is What We Are by The 2 Live Crew
The first Southern rap debut to cross the gold line did it through the back of a promoter’s car, one Black-owned record store at a time. A clerk in…
Jul 21
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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Album Review: Boatshoes by Brian Ennals & Blockhead
The Severn, Maryland rapper takes his nihilist stand-up act to Blockhead’s funkiest beats and turns in his loosest, funniest writing. The jokes run on…
Jul 20
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Miles Everette
Album Review: Better Than McDonald’s by Gangrene
The latest Gangrene album finds the rapper-producers Oh No and the Alchemist deep in their longest-running two-man outlet. One of its charms is hearing…
Jul 20
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Owen Baptiste
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Album Review: Atomic Justice by AJ Suede
After a week of tabs and an ego death, AJ Suede kept the psychic powers and cut twelve tracks of cold, self-made Seattle rap.
Jul 20
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Koda Lin
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Milestones: The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein by Parliament
Less than a year after the Mothership landed, George Clinton cloned himself an army, and Parliament’s fifth album turned funk’s silliest premise into…
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Imani Raven
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