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Album Review: Ancient History by Wiki
Priced off his own blocks, Wiki rakes back over a New York changing under him.
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Phil
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Album Review: Labor of Love by Blxst
Blxst self-produces a record that calls love a kind of work. The reassurance songs run together, while the fatherhood and survival songs are where the…
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Javon Bailey
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Album Review: A Little Vengeance by Jessie Reyez
On her fourth album, Jessie Reyez names every weapon she’s holding over a cheating ex and won’t fire one.
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Alexandria Elise
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Album Review: So Help Me God by Kelsey Lu
Kelsey Lu lights a match to burn off the pain and the pain stays. Their second album builds everything around the choice to keep holding it.
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Zaria Farah
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Album Review: INFINITY SONG by Infinity Song
Four Detroit siblings busked their way through New York into a Roc Nation deal on family harmony. A 553 credit score and a homesick plea carry their…
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Marjani Fields
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New Music Drops: June 12, 2026
As new albums and singles get constantly flooded into our radar, look no further than skimming through the release week of June 12th. We know it can be…
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Album Review: God Must Really Love Me by Tori Kelly
On her sixth album, made in the first year of motherhood, Tori Kelly sings about a marriage that holds, a new son, and the God she thanks for both.
Jun 11
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Charlotte Rochel
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Album Review: DIRTY BLONDE by Bebe Rexha
Bebe Rexha’s fourth album hides prayers and panic inside dance-pop hooks built for a packed room. Her plainest, meanest writing about herself beats…
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Oliver I. Martin
Album Review: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love by Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo writes love as poison in the blood and a doctor who finds nothing. On her third album, the diagnosis runs from the first kiss to the…
Jun 11
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Darryl Keyes
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Why Freddie Gibbs’ “Axxtion” Is the Rap Song of the Summer
Rapping straight over Mad Cobra’s 1992 “Flex” record without touching a word of it, Gibbs spends a minute in pure pleasure mode and gives the summer its…
Jun 11
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Javon Bailey
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Album Review: My Mess, My Heart, My Life. by Myles Smith
The Luton singer’s debut is most alive inside his childhood home; the love songs filling its back half could belong to anyone.
Jun 11
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Darryl Keyes
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Mixtape Review: I Heard You Paint Houses by Conway the Machine & DJ Whoo Kid
Conway rhymes over beats jacked from 50 Cent, Eminem, and Biggie while DJ Whoo Kid hollers across the top. The writing makes the borrowed production…
Jun 10
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Devon Kai Brooks
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