In the past few years, the 19-year-old Atlanta rapper Che has emerged at the forefront of the post-Playboi Carti rage-rap wave. He does the fried, chaotic bleepy-staticy thing better than pretty much anyone else, and he finds room for tiny, achy melodies in the midst of all his noise. In 2025, Che made it onto… The post Che – “Tell …

Rostam officially announced his new album American Stories a little over a month ago. It’s coming out at the beginning of May. He shared the lead single “Like A Spark,” and today he’s back with the follow-up single “Back Of A Truck.” It comes with beautiful video directed by Antony Muse, starring Milo Cassidy and… The post Rostam – “Back …

London dance producer Love Remain specializes in music that’s hard and physical but that’s also trapped deep in its own memory. His mixtape With Every Cloud came out last fall, and he followed it with the single “Steppa” earlier this year. Yesterday, Love Remain released “Paris, Forever,” a new track that pairs a sweaty breakbeat… The post Love Remain – …

The world of UK grime is way more rooted in club culture than US rap is. Grime evolved directly out of the rave and pirate radio scenes, and plenty of UK rappers have had their biggest pop successes on EDM tracks — Dizzee Rascal on “Bonkers” and “Dance Wiv Me,” Wiley on “Wearing My Rolex,”… The post Skepta Is Making …

Dutch art-pop trio the Homesick (Elias Elgersma, Jaap van der Velde, and Erik Woudwijk) are back with a quirky little single “Esperanto.” The new song arrives alongside the announcement that they signed to independent Austrian label Siluh Records. “Esperanto” is wacky in a new wave/Devo way. It has rubbery synths and bouncy vocal shouts. The… The post The Homesick – …

“Tadow, Queens be the birthplace/ Turn you to a fuckin’ cheeseburger at a children’s birthday/ Yeah, I deserve a mermaid/ So I could buy my bitch fake Hermes.” It’s Bam Bam! No rapper other than Action Bronson would write those lines in a million years or deliver them with such casual panache. That’s the Action… The post Action Bronson – …

After bringing debut album All Hell back online a few months back, Daughn Gibson is now rolling out Lake Mary not mysterious, his first digitally available album in over a decade. (He released the limited-edition physical-only The Bergundy Daughns in 2024, but you didn’t hear that one, did you?) This week brings the second single… The post Daughn Gibson – …

Faith, the latest album from NYC ambient electronic trio Purelink, was one of the best records anyone released last year, and this week they released a couple more incredible tracks. For “Barrons Hotel (I, To, Thee.)” and “Yellow Bones,” the group teamed up with Rainy Miller, an artful young British singer-songwriter whose atmospheric, post-Blonde aesthetic… The post Purelink & Rainy …

Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman and cold brew innovator Anthony Kiedis has a long history of dating women much, much younger than him. He’s been doing that ever since he was young. At 24, for instance, Kiedis was involved with the 16-year-old movie star Ione Skye, and his 2004 memoir Scar Tissue is full of disturbing stories like that. Today, …

A deeper layer has been added to an already charged conversation after Big Gipp expanded on his stance about the decline of New York’s dominance in Hip Hop, pointing directly to the… The post Big Gipp Sparks Debate, Says New York Hip Hop Was “Schematically Eliminated” For Dropping Too Much Knowledge appeared first on .