The veteran rapper/producer Oddisee has been making beautiful music for a very long time now. Last year, he released an EP called En Route. Next month, he’ll team up with Heno., a relatively new rapper from Takoma Park, Maryland, to release a new album called From Takoma With Love. Oddisee is based in Brooklyn these… The post Oddisee & Heno. …

In a couple of weeks Jessie Ware will drop her new album Superbloom. The UK pop singer has been leading up to the release with singles like “I Could Get Used To This” and “Ride,” and today she’s graciously given us another sample with “Automatic.” The first voice you hear on “Automatic,” however, isn’t Ware’s. Actor… The post Jessie Ware – …

Ne-Yo is not clued in to what’s going on at Pacific Music Group — the Pan-Asian music company that was founded by him, Sonu Nigam, MC Jin, and Jonathan Serbin. While walking through an airport, paparazzi asked the R&B trailblazer what he thought of the new AI artist TaTa that PMG recently signed. “My label signed an AI artist?” he asked, …

Ryan Graham plays guitar in the Albany pop-punk band State Champs and in the LA-based all-star side project Pile Of Love, and he also puts out solo music under the name Speak Low. Earlier this week, he shared the new single “One Good Look,” a spindly acoustic song about the kind of unspoken distance that can creep into a relationship. …

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Electroclash will never die. We seem to be entering a new golden age of glamorous people in severe makeup reciting deadpan lyrics over bloopy drum-machine beats. Ideally, an entirely new generation will get to use tracks like those as soundtracks to their worst decisions. Erin Hoagg, the Baltimore-born and New York-based artist who records as… The post Rare DM Announces …

At the beginning of the year, Boston post-hardcore band the Saddest Landscape announced their return with a new album Alone With Heaven, their first in over a decade. We’ve already heard a few from the project, which is out next month, including “From Home They Run,” “Hexes,” and “Forever, Undone.” Today they’ve shared another preview of… The post The Saddest Landscape …

For the past few years, rap great Danny Brown has been collaborating heavily with underground hyperpop producers. He loves that stuff! Those collaborations built up to the release of Stardust, the album that Brown released last year, but they didn’t end there. Now, Brown’s got a new collaboration with an artist who I’d never heard… The post girl_irl & Danny …

A disturbing online game circulating among students is raising new questions about internet controls on school issued laptops. According to reports from parents and educators, the game titled “Five Nights… The post ‘Five Nights at Epstein’s’ Game Spreading on School Laptops, Raising Alarm Among Parents appeared first on .

Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley is drawing fresh reactions after sharing blunt opinions about parenting and discipline during a recent radio appearance. Speaking on The Dan Patrick Show, the… The post Charles Barkley Defends Spanking as Discipline During Dan Patrick Show Interview appeared first on .