ZZ Ward has always been kind of a blues artist, but she’s also kind of been a rock artist and kind of a pop artist all throughout her career. As of now, well, that’s over… because Liberation is the sound of ZZ Ward finally giving up on trying to be palatable and instead deciding to […]
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AI makes diss tracks now? Let’s talk about Gnominem (Satirical Diss) by Sasha Prime. This is a track that exists at the strange intersection of battle rap, artificial intelligence, and what I can only assume is some kind of elaborate performance art. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if a computer tried to start
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Hip-hop has always been a genre of bravado. Arguably from the peak of Run DMC, the first big stars and the forefathers of hip-hop in general, hip-hop has been defined by flexing over your lyrical skills over head-bumping beats. If you’re a killer MC, you can go far. Enter Gemspit Exquisite. This is a scrappy
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Xavior Black is not here to make music for easy listening. On his newest release, Meditations & Dreams is a collection of tracks that simply refuses to sit quietly in the background—it’s here to get right up in your face, maybe shake your shoulders a bit as the lush instrumentation perks your ears up and
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I Dont Do Drugs, I Am Drugs. Bold statement for a project title. Then again, rapper Soch doesn’t really come off like anything but bold. A cold-rhymed rapper with a clear influence from people in the Griselda camp such as Benny the Butcher, this eight-track project makes a case for how music can be more
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Eccentricity goes a long way to make an artist stand out, and whether that comes in the way of sheer rawness, charm and candor coming together or just sheer mastery in one’s performance, there is always a form of eccentricity that I appreciate first and foremost. Enter Chymes, an Australian alternative pop artist who has
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