There are so many new rap albums out today that it’s going to be hard to process all of them. The new Freddie Gibbs and billy woods LPs are both incredible, and we’ve also got new records from Rome Streetz, Kid Cudi, YG, and Big30, too. That’s just the stuff in my must-listen list! There […]
Fort Romeau – “Hold Up”
Michael Greene, the British dance producer who makes music under the name Fort Romeau, released his album Beings Of Light earlier this year. Today, he’s followed the LP with a new standalone single called “Hold Up.” It’s a propulsive, evocative house jam with a melodic bassline and layers of synth all around it. Check it […]
Smino – “90 Proof” (Feat. J. Cole)
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the hugely talented Chicago-via-St. Louis rapper Smino, who’s been busy on the guest-rapper circuit but who hasn’t released a record of his own since the 2020 mixtape She Already Decided. Right now, though, Smino is working on a new album called Luv 4 Rent, and he’s just […]
Stream Glitterer’s New Surprise EP Fantasy Four, Inspired By The Deaths Of Power Trip’s Riley Gale And Iron Age’s Wade Allison
Ned Russin is back today with a surprise EP under his Glitterer alias. Fantasy Four finds the Title Fight co-founder grappling with the 2020 deaths of two Texas metal icons, Power Trip’s Riley Gale and Iron Age’s Wade Allison. Russin shares more in a statement: These songs began as conscious and subconscious attempts to work […]
Stream Foreseen’s Ferocious New Thrash Opus Untamed Force
Look at that cover art! Look at it! It’s so ugly! It’s so beautiful! It’s something that the worst kid in your third-grade class might wear on an airbrushed T-shirt! And it tells you everything that you need to know about Untamed Force, the stomp-ass new album from motherfucking Foreseen. Foreseen come from Finland, a […]
Jon Hopkins, Kelly Lee Owens, Sultan + Shepard, & Jerro – “To Feel Again / Trois”
You don’t see too many dance-producer posse cuts — or, at least, you don’t see too many dance-producer posse cuts that are billed as posse cuts. But a new single brings together the talents of five different producers, and it gives all of them equal billing. It bangs pretty hard, too. The architectural English auteur […]
Stream Origami Angel’s Remarkably Pretty Surprise EP re: turn
Emo duo Origami Angel became one of the most beloved bands in their scene between the release of 2019’s Somewhere City and 2021’s double-disc opus Gami Gang. Today they’re back with a surprise EP called re: turn. The three-song set presents a softer and prettier but no less urgent Origami Angel, with the distortion scaled […]
Stream billy woods’ Excellent New Messiah Musik-Produced Surprise Album Church
What did we do to deserve a new billy woods album so quickly. We know Brooklyn rapper woods as one half of the great Armand Hammer, and he’s also one of the world’s most compelling solo rappers right now, too. In April, woods teamed up with producer Preservation to release Aethiopes, and it’s one of […]
Meet Me @ The Altar – “Say It (To My Face)”
Now that Paramore have returned, it makes cosmic sense that Florida pop-punk trio Meet Me @ The Altar should release a new song too. First, quick a primer on the hype surrounding Edith Victoria, Téa Campbell, and Ada Juarez: Formed in 2015, Meet Me @ The Altar released their first studio album Out Of Sight, […]
M.I.A. – “Beep”
M.I.A. is preparing to release her sixth studio album MATA. She threatened to leak it herself if it wasn’t out in September, and here we are on the last day of the month with no album. But M.I.A. has just announced MATA will drop on Oct. 14 and shared one more single, so it looks […]