It definitely takes some guts to rap about ancient goddesses, mythology, and ancestry. Because let’s be honest, those aren’t exactly the topics dominating playlists right now. Yet Ray Gibbz leans fully into them on Royal Ruby, as if he’d been waiting centuries to tell this story to the world. Ray Gibbz is a self-taught producer, […]
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Some songs show up with the subtleness of a brick through a window. They do exactly what they say they’re going to do, point out who the baddies are and then proceed to scream their message at you until you either agree with them or take yourselves and your attitudes somewhere else. Deportee’s “Black Women
There are no other ways to describe fear aside from how Joseph Turner & The Dudes of Hazard built The Shadow Remains. Here, fear isn’t just a theme or a mood, it’s a whole structure embedded in every detail until it seeps into your bones like it belongs. Joseph Turner writes from the Dutch delta,
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Repeat after me: a good song doesn’t have to be anything specific. Sometimes, it just needs to get one exact feeling right when you need it most. GISKE does exactly that with their latest single, August Came. GISKE features members of acclaimed Norwegian guitar-pop band The Margarets, with a songwriting partnership that traces back to
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Some of the most striking EPs aren’t the ones with the loudest statements or boldest concepts. Sometimes they sound like 4fro Nick’s Don’t Waste My Time (LA mix), the one that grabs your shoulders and reminds you that time is moving. Don’t Waste My Time (LA mix) is an EP from 4fro Nick (Nick Anastasakis),
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These days, it’s hard to find songs that feel like Ceyeo’s Walls of Love. Not because it’s too unique or complicated but because its honesty isn’t something you can simply replicate—it only comes through when you’ve stopped trying to make things sound right and just let it be true. Classically-trained Ceyeo is a songwriter, vocalist, and
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At some point in every dream, it loses its shine. Most people aren’t interested in talking about that point. Most people are interested in the dream. The initial momentum. Late-night idea sessions. Inspirational quotes overlaid on stock photos of mountains. The dreams where you wake up to it all working out, then do a magazine
Other artists want a seat at a table. Ray Gibbz flips it instead with no apologies. That defines the entirety of his latest release, If I Ruled. For a self-taught producer, songwriter, and rapper emerging from San Diego, Nas’ If I Ruled the World becomes a clear touchpoint in shaping Ray Gibbz’s vision for this
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Imagine grief when it doesn’t come off like a movie that made you cry like a bucket or a devastating video that lingered like smoke in your room. What you’ll get from Reetoxa’s Love Keeps Burning Still is grief settling in the most tender, softest way possible. Reetoxa is a Melbourne band fronted by Jason
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This is a weird time to be involved with music; it demands we all be content creators, influencers, amateur marketers, compulsive oversharers, and, when we have time, musicians. All the songs now come pre-packaged with personalities, branding, carefully manicured online identities detailing everything the artist had for breakfast and their subsequent thoughts and feelings and
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