Picasso, baby. Grafh puts his pen to good use on his new album, Art Of Words, produced by 38 Spesh Presented with 10 tracks, the Queens rapper and the Rochester producer rolled out the project with their first single, “Maggie Simpson” featuring Giggs. Elsewhere, the duo connects with Rome Streetz with “Finesse” and heads to […]
Album: Yung Bleu ‘Love Scars 2’
The saga continues. Yung Bleu’s still healing from heartbreaks with the second installment of his Love Scars series. For his second time around, the Mobile, Alabama hitmaker digs deeper into the highs and lows relationships and breakups from “Games Women Play” to “Kissing On Your Tattoos“. The 15-track set also includes “The Way You Rock”, […]
EP: Pi’erre Bourne ‘Grails’
Holy Grails! After kicking off the year with a few loosies, Pi’erre Bourne shares a few more on his new Grails EP. Produced by himself, the Life Of Pi rapper drops 8 tracks from previously-released records to a few newbies including “IG” and “Honeyberry 2“. Other tracks included “Love Reeks”, “Chicken & Waffles”, “NY In […]
EP: Dinner Party, Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, 9th Wonder ‘Enigmatic Society’
Dig in. Dinner Party serves up another round of food for thought with their fresh new EP, Enigmatic Society. Consisting of musicians Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, and 9th Wonder, the producing super-group brings nine new tracks. It’s lead by the Ant Clemons-featured “Insane“, produced by Terrace Martin and Sounwave, which features a sample […]
Jorja Smith – “Try Me”
The UK pop and R&B singer Jorja Smith released her debut album Lost & Found way back in 2018, and in 2021 she released an excellent EP called Be Right Back. Today she’s launching a new era with the DAMEDAME*-produced “Try Me,” an impressive mixture of smooth presence and jagged rhythm that ends by disappearing […]
Rose City Band – “Mariposa”
Next week, Rose City Band — the Portland project led by Ripley Johnson, also in Wooden Shjips and Moon Duo — are releasing a new album, Garden Party, the follow-up to 2021’s Earth Trip. We’ve heard two tracks from it already, “Chasing Rainbows” and “Slow Burn,” and today he’s back with one more, the jammy […]
Jessie Ware – “Begin Again”
At the end of the month, Jessie Ware is releasing a new album with the emphatic title That! Feels Good!, her follow-up to 2020’s What’s Your Pleasure? We’ve heard two singles from it so far, “Free Yourself” and “Pearls,” and today the British singer has returned with a third, “Begin Again.” “On a miserable afternoon […]
Pissed Jeans – “No Convenient Apocalypse”
It’s been over six years since we’ve heard from the Philadelphia band Pissed Jeans, when they released their full-length Why Love Now in 2017. Members of the band have popped up in various places over the years, in music videos by Kurt Vile and as part of a side project called Fine Jewelers and, most […]
Stream Magdalena Bay’s New Seven-Song EP Mini Mix Vol. 3
Magdalena Bay, the giddy experimental pop duo from Los Angeles, blew up on the strength of their 2021 album Mercurial World. On the strength of that LP, Magdalena Bay toured with acts like Charli XCX and Flume, and they play Coachella for the first time tomorrow. Last year, Mercurial World got a deluxe edition. Before […]
King Krule – “Seaforth”
A few weeks ago, King Krule played some live shows where he was selling some flexi-discs featuring new songs. Today, Archy Marshall has announced a new King Krule album called Space Heavy, his follow-up to 2020’s Man Alive! He wrote it over the past few years while commuting between London and Liverpool, the two cities […]