Kississippi – “Big Dipper”
Last fall, one-time Band To Watch Kississippi put out “Around Your Room,” the first new track we’d heard from the Zoe Reynolds-led project since the release of their 2018 debut Continue Reading
22 Freak The Fuck Out To Riversleem’s A Debut Release
Riversleem are a pulverizingly severe quartet out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. As heard on the new A Debut Release, which compiles four songs the group wrote and recorded in 2019, they Continue Reading
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Stream Pet Fox’s New EP More Than Anything
Ovlov is one of those elusive, cult-followed emo/shoegaze bands who come back when you least expect it. They’re not back (yet), but this new Pet Fox EP More Than Anything, Continue Reading
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Stream ALLBLACK’s Fired-Up, Guest-Heavy New Album TY4FWM
Oakland’s ALLBLACK is an energetic rapper and a prolific force. He turns up a lot in featured-artist rotation, especially in the Bay Area, and he also releases a lot of Continue Reading
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Tee Grizzley, Toosii, Quando Rondo and More – New Projects This Week
Another week is coming to a close and some new music has arrived to help kick off the weekend. It’s been a little while since Tee Grizzley dropped a project, Continue Reading
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Moon-Drenched – “Psychic Liberation”
Last year, Thee Oh Sees leader John Dwyer got a whole bunch of musicians — TV On The Radio’s Kyp Malone, Ryan Sawyer, Peter Kerlin, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins, Marcos Continue Reading
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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – “Soon It Will Be Fire” (Feat. Moses Sumney) (Richard Youngs’ Cover)
Big-deal independent label Jagjaguwar is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with a series of releases called Jag Quarterly. The first installment, Dilate Your Heart, was a spoken-word album from Continue Reading
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The Break Presents: Kenny Mason
Kenny Mason is one of the newest names to emerge out of Atlanta’s underground hip-hop scene, and he did it in the heart of the pandemic. His official debut project, Continue Reading
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Trippie Redd Credits Lil Uzi Vert and Playboi Carti for Pioneering Change in Hip-Hop, Explains His Miss The Rage Motto and More
More To The Story Now a multiplatinum-selling rapper, Trippie Redd has come a long way from his SoundCloud days. He’s experienced life’s highs with the lows, and giving up isn’t Continue Reading
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It Is the Perfect Time for a Florence Welch-Led “The Great Gatsby” Musical
Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine has given us iconic hits like “Dog Days Are Over” and sleeper gems like “Seven Devils,” but she’s now utilizing a brand new Continue Reading
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Slept On: The Latest In Rap Music (April 16, 2021)
Rap fans have many reasons to rejoice this morning. Young Thug and his Young Stoner Life collective returned today with Slime Language 2, a collaborative project that has the largest Continue Reading
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Hip-Hop Trailblazer DMX Dies at 50
Earl Simmons, the pioneering hardcore rapper better known as DMX, died Friday after suffering a heart attack. He was 50 years old. “We are deeply saddened to announce today that Continue Reading
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Kid Ink, Brockhampton, Mo3 and More – New Projects This Week
The week is coming to an end and while the weekend is something to look forward to, so are the new music efforts arriving today (April 8) from some of your favorite Continue Reading
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Check Out the Most Memorable Lyrics From Rappers Under 25
Hip-hop was started by the youth, with DJ Kool Herc being just 16 years old on the night hip-hop began in The Bronx in 1973. Those origins 48 years ago are Continue Reading
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The 7 Best Nipsey Hussle Features
Two years ago today, we lost the incomparable Nipsey Hussle. In addition to the obvious slew of amazing solo projects, Nip also contributed a modicum of amazing guest features throughout Continue Reading
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The Break Presents: BlueBucksClan
Friendship is everything, and that rings true for BlueBucksClan, the South Central, Los Angeles duo of DJ and Jeeezy, who have been close friends since they were playing childhood football Continue Reading
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Lil Nas X Doesn't Care If You Don't Like His “Satan Shoes”
After the success of his most recent single “MONTERO (Call Me by Your Name),” a provocative hit about clandestine queer love affairs, Lil Nas X is releasing a shoe collaboration Continue Reading
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We Need to Talk About John Mayer
This year’s Grammy Awards felt like a desperate attempt to modernize in the face of criticism and the fear of irrelevance. While most of those attempts felt placating and performative Continue Reading
32 Premiere: Niki Tonik Is Ready to Embrace the “Equinox”
Just in time for the Spring equinox, exuberant pop singer Niki Tonik has returned with her latest single “Equinox,” which premieres on Popdust today (available everywhere March 19th). The soulful Continue Reading
51 All the Drake and Rick Ross Collabs, Ranked
When rappers team up for collaboration albums, fans get to hear their combined styles over a sustained project instead of a fleeting single. Like Kanye and Jay Z’s Watch the Continue Reading
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