Kanye West has released his new album, Donda, his first full-length since 2019’s Jesus Is King. It came out the weekend after his third listening party, which took place at Chicago’s Soldier Field. The album features guest appearances from Jay-Z, the Weeknd, Jay Electronica, the Lox, Young Thug, Pop Smoke, Pusha T, Travis Scott, Lil […]
MØL – “Serf”
The Danish blackgaze powerhouse MØL announced their new album Diorama last month with the release of lead single “Photophobic.” Today they’ve returned with a second track from the album, an epic immolation titled “Serf.” There are blastbeats here, and the vocals are consistently shrill and indecipherable in the black metal tradition, but mostly this music […]
Stream Under Attack’s Frantic New EP Preservation’s Crash
Two years ago, a group of veteran Richmond musicians got together and released a righteously fast and furious hardcore punk EP. The members of Under Attack have been in bands like Municipal Waste, Limp Wrist, and Succession. Together, they make old-school basement-rage music that’s almost overwhelming in its simplicity. Their debut EP Through The Blade […]
Stream Flee Lord & Roc Marciano’s New Collaborative Album Delgado
Way back in 2010, the Long Island rapper Roc Marciano released his self-produced album Marcberg and essentially invented a new subgenre of underground rap. That subgenre doesn’t really have a name, but you can hear echoes of Roc Marci’s bleak, meditative beats and whispered, intricately worded goon-talk in virtually all of the smoky boom-bap that’s […]
Stream Filth Is Eternal’s Merciless New Album Love Is A Lie, Filth Is Eternal
Earlier this year, the ferocious and bloody-minded Seattle hardcore band Fucked And Bound announced a name change. It’s hard to imagine a band name as nasty and memorable as Fucked And Bound, but the band found one that’s at least in the same zone: They would now be known as Filth Is Eternal. Along with […]
Joey Purp – “Candypaint”
Three years is a long time in rap, but we won’t have to wait too much longer to hear the fired-up Chicago rapper Joey Purp’s follow-up to his 2018 album QUARTERTHING. Next month, Purp will release UpLate, a new mixtape that promises to embrace the homegrown Chicago sound of house music. We’ve already heard the […]
Stream Westside Gunn’s New Mixtape Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Sincerely Adolf
What is Westside Gunn’s whole thing with Hitler? Gunn has built a whole reputation on being a sort of artistically refined street-rapper, as someone who can transition comfortably from the block to the balcony, and yet he continues to play around with Hitler’s name as if that’s just some kind of transgressive luxury good. It’s […]
Courtney Barnett – “I’ll Be Your Mirror” (The Velvet Underground Cover)
Courtney Barnett is in the middle of rolling out her own new album Things Take Time, Take Time — perhaps you’ve heard its great singles “Rae Street” and “Before You Gotta Go” — but her new song today is not on that album. Instead, Barnett is back with her contribution to the all-star The Velvet […]
Halsey Discusses Their Nine Inch Nails Collaborative Album: “I Was Like, Please Make Weird Choices”
Halsey’s new album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power is out now. The pop star worked on it with Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and in our Premature Evaluation review we wrote that it’s “a collaboration that should please Halsey fans and Nine Inch Nails fans alike.” Halsey sat down […]
Baby Keem – “Family Ties” (Feat. Kendrick Lamar)
We’ve been in a Kendrick Lamar drought these last few years. Few features, little news. But last week Lamar returned with a note which said that he’s not ready to drop his new album but that he has indeed been working on it. He also said that his upcoming album would be his last with […]