Back in April, the Colombian-born/Brooklyn-based electronic musician Ela Minus shared an excellent new single called “they told us it was hard, but they were wrong.” (It ranked amongst our favorite songs that week.) A shadowy dance track with a defiant mantra as its chorus, the song had an eerie, prescient bit of resonance arriving into […]
A$AP Ferg – “Move Ya Hips” (Feat. Nicki Minaj & MadeinTYO)
Is it possible to throw Nicki Minaj on any old song these days and get a hit out of it? A$AP Ferg aims to find out! Nicki has been on quite a run lately. Before this year, she’d infamously gone her entire career without ever landing on a #1 single, though she’d come close a […]
Laura Veirs – “Burn Too Bright”
Laura Veirs was our first-ever Artist To Watch way back in 2004, and, well, we’re still watching. Today, the singer-songwriter is announcing her 11th solo album, My Echo, which she describes as her “‘my songs knew I was getting divorced before I did’ album.” As she explains: My conscious mind was trying as hard as […]
Taylor Swift Drops “cardigan (cabin in candlelight)” Version
Album Review: Taylor Swift’s ‘folklore’ Taylor Swift’s campaign to obtain a 6th number one hit with “cardigan” continues tonight (July 29) with the arrival of a lovely stripped-back remix dubbed the “cabin in candlelight” version. The superstar also unveiled an alternate video, which is comprised of behind-the-scenes footage from the album photoshoot. Both will count […]
Questlove and Black Thought Pay Tribute to Malik B: 'The World Just Lost a Real One'
The Roots co-founder Malik B. died earlier on Wednesday at the age of 47. After his cousin, Don Champion, delivered the news, tributes from the music community began to pour in, but none were as powerful as those from his former Roots bandmates. Black Thought and Questlove remembered Malik B. — who was in the […]
New Music: Bodega Bamz “Who U With”
Bamz and Yams. Hot off the announcement of his Yams Heard This album for August 21, Bodega Bamz follows up with the news with his first release. Rolling with A List Fame’s celebratory bop, the Spanish Harlem MC goes ham with an energetic flow boasting riches, fame, and his come up. Yams Heard This is […]
New Video: IDK, A$AP Ferg “Mazel Tov” | Rap Radar
Mazel Tov, bitches! It’s a celebration of wins in IDK and A$AP Ferg’s glorious music video to their victorious collaboration. Over at a lush pad filled with party-goers horahing, IDK enjoys the fruits of labor with two beauties in an outdoor hot tub. Meanwhile, A$AP Ferg checks off his wins from an elegant garden to […]
New Video: Mistah F.A.B. “That’s Him” | Rap Radar
Forever and The Bay. Mistah F.A.B. brings The Bay out for the latest video off his Stan Pablo: Brickphones & Beepers. Without missing the narrative and his people’s fight for justice, the Dope Era MC turns bad times into good vibes with a celebration of unity full of cars, women, and lots of Hyphy. It’s […]
New Video: R.A. The Rugged Man “All Systems Go” | Rap Radar
Back to back. R.A. The Rugged Man is all charged up in the music video to his recent album, All My Heroes Are Dead. In the time-traveling clip, the Long Island wordsmith jumps in and out of various periodic experiments from Victorian-era serial killers to virtual reality to Neanderthals.
Album Review: Taylor Swift’s ‘folklore’
Review: Jessie’s ‘What’s Your Pleasure?’ Taylor Swift has already won Album Of The Year Grammys for both country and pop offerings. (Fearless and 1989, respectively). She could feasibly take home a third with folklore. Which is excitingly difficult to horn into any particular genre. There are country and pop elements in the mix, but also […]