Songs You Need In Your Life This Week Tracks we love right now, in no particular order. By The FADER Photography courtesy of Kim Petras, Cortisa Star, Sade Olutola, and…
Ben Reilly by BANVOA Ben Reilly is a Brooklyn-via-Atlanta rapper whose no-nonsense raps fuse superheroic mythmaking and clear-eyed vulnerability. He’s as likely to make you laugh out loud as he…
Provided by Office of Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson The late rapper Nipsey Hussle used to tell his partner Lauren London that the city would rename the beloved Crenshaw and Slauson…
Photography by Coughs Rochelle Jordan has been lighting up dance floors and aux cords for over a decade. The British-Jamaican alt-R&B diva and house chanteuse has long been a cult…
Some artists take years between records. Igor Keller, the Seattle-based composer and multi-instrumentalist behind Longboat, recorded eight of them last year alone. His 34th album, Absentia, is out now, and…
lucybedroque · (EGO MIX) LUCYBEDROQUE & PRETTIFUN – GOOD SAKE PROD EGOBREAK Lucy Bedroque and prettifun are coming off a red-hot 2025. prettifun released his Victor Victor debut Funhouse Deluxe,…
camille blackman bottles the delirium of a gradual crush with a grin on “just friends.” Even before she opens her mouth, a zippy, clear-toned guitar conjures wistful, lofi ambience, but…
Sideshow opens “YARDBIRD” with a discussion of heroin and jazz. “Do you think it made guys more creative?” one man asks; “The concentration of a heroin addict is very strong,”…
underscores has shared a dubstep-inflected smash, “Tell Me (U Want It)” alongside further details about her forthcoming album, U (out March 20). She also shared a new, self-directed music video…
Texas Isaiah There’s a jarring dissonance between electronic music as a cultural history and electronic music as a popular entertainment. Its origins as an underground post-industrial, Black, and queer art…