Music
Inssegh Inssegh
Niger’s Les Filles de Illighadad use of choral chants always foregrounds the vocals, but keep track of the all-important fretwork of the guitar keeping rhythm.
Silver Roses
The lead track “Silver Roses” off Rose City Band’s latest LP Earth Trip hits like Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door.”
Final Thought
LA’s jazzmaster Kamasi Washington is not messing around on his big band 3xLP release The Epic. It is what it says it is. Epic.
9 Days (ft. Saxo Boy)
Who among us hasn’t had a brief fixation on the avant-garde amapiano club scene of South Africa? Let ye cast the first stone who doesn’t love DJ Black Low!
Parable of Inclusion
Chicago's Rob Mazurek has a touch of the cosmic to him and a star is born on Dimensional Stardust.
Pause Tape
Save the starpower remixes on the Bookhead EP for later and skip straight to the real thing: MF DOOM (RIP).
1539 N. Calvert
Baltimore's JPEGMAFIA is a relentless beat stylist that specializes in hip hop collages.
Gazillion (ft. J Dilla)
MF DOOM passed away (RIP) and we’re not ever going to be done remembering him through his music.
Taken Back
Rich Ruth’s I Survived, It’s Over is too zonked to parse genre distinctions finely. Call it ‘psychedelic.’
Yusawa Experience
The true thrust of Precipitation’s Glass Horizon is chill, New Age ambient, but have a listen to house banger “Yuzawa Experience.”
Family Name
Beat Radio returns to the airwaves with Real Love, the first release from the Brian Sendrowitz-led band since 2016.
Thin Thing
For diehard fans of Radiohead, The Smile’s debut album A Light for Attracting Attention is obligatory.
Altar of Tammy
Not so infrequently artists describe their music best. Mary Lattimore and Paul Sukeena keep it simple.
Mt. Surreal
Disco Doom is nothing if not patient on the superlative title track of its forthcoming LP Mt. Surreal, working through the musical motifs like a chimp on Thorazine solving a Rubik’s Cube.
