Rachel Brodsky

Last month, prolific rapper Your Old Droog released “The Return Of Sasquatch” featuring production by Madlib. The track followed YOD’s May EP YOD Stewart, and that followed two previous full-length projects in 2022: Tha Wolf On Wall St 2: The American Dream (with longtime collaborator Tha God Fahim) and YOD Wave.  » Read More

Eddie Chacon — aka one half of the ’90s soul duo Charles & Eddie — made his formal return to music in 2020, releasing the LP Pleasure, Joy And Happiness and singles “My Mind Is Out Of Its Mind” and “High.” Prior to that, Chacon had been out of the music game for two decades,  » Read More

Back in April, A$AP Rocky was arrested in Los Angeles in connection to a previously unreported shooting that had happened in November 2021. Now, A$AP Relli, a former member of A$AP Mob, has come forward claiming that he is the victim of that shooting. According to Rolling Stone,  » Read More

Next month, Brooklyn experimental quartet Altopalo will release their latest LP, frenemy. They’ve already shared album tracks “Frenemy,” “Starfish In Low Tide,” “Altopalo,” and last month’s “WYA?” Today, they’re sharing a collaboration with Bartees Strange called “love that 4 u,” which the band calls “a diss track to ourselves.”  » Read More

Last we heard from julie, the Los Angeles art-grunge trio / design collective had independently released their 2021 EP pushing daisies, which featured the singles “skipping tiles” and “april’s-bloom.” Now, julie are back with two brand-new singles: “pg.4 a picture of three hedges/through your window.”  » Read More

Young Galaxy’s Stephen Ramsay and Stars’ Torquil Campbell have teamed up to form a new project — TFD (TOTAL FUCKING DARKNESS) — and now they’ve released their debut single, “The TFD.” It leans heavily on spacey-’80s synth-work and finds the pair calling for “death to fascists, death to men, death to politicians and the women who live with them.”  » Read More

Bizarro-pop performer NANCY has been a fixture in the UK for a minute with 2018’s debut EP Mysterious Visions and 2021’s mini-LP 7 Foot Tall Post-Suicidal Feel Good Blues. Recently, NANCY announced his return with a debut LP and a lead single, “I Hate Rock &  » Read More

Montreal polymath Ev Bird just signed to Royal Mountain Records, who will release his new self-produced EP Puff Piece in October. Some of you might already know Bird as “Everett Bird,” who dropped his debut LP People Person in 2018. Now, the genre-surfing Bird is going by “Ev”  » Read More

This Friday, Black Thought and Danger Mouse are set to release their collaborative album Cheat Codes. We’ve already heard lead-up tracks “No Gold Teeth,” “Because” featuring Joey Bada$$, Russ, and Dylan Cartlidge, and “Aquamarine” featuring Michael Kiwanuka.  » Read More