VIAL – “Embryo”
Last year, the Minneapolis band VIAL released their sophomore album, LOUDMOUTH. Today, they’re back with their first new track since then, a fiery one called “Embryo,” which is a benefit Continue Reading
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Gordi – “Stranger” & “Visitor”
Next month, Australian Artist To Watch Gordi (Sophie Payten) will release a new EP, Inhuman. We’ve heard a couple track so far: “Way I Go” and the title track. Now, Continue Reading
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Dazy – “Rollercoaster Ride” & “Peel”
During the first pandemic summer, the Richmond-based musician (and music publicist) James Goodson started posting power-pop songs as Dazy, and in the couple years since then he’s amassed quite the Continue Reading
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Icon Chaka Khan Releases Female Empowerment Anthem “Woman like Me”
The legend and Icon, singer-songwriter-producer actress, and humanitarian Chaka Khan ” releases new single “Woman Like Me.” After giving us the Female Empowerment song of our lives “I’m Every Woman” Kahn Continue Reading
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Jae Stephens makes Mondays easier with new single, “What’s A Monday?”
Jae Stephens is making her mark in the world of R&B and helping her fans beat the Monday blues with her new single, “What’s A Monday?”. This is the newest Continue Reading
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Rosalía – “Despechá”
Earlier this year, Rosalía released her long-awaited MOTOMAMI LP, and it’s easily one of the best albums of 2022 thus far. Earlier this month, Rosalía kicked off a global tour Continue Reading
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Militarie Gun – “Gimme Some Truth” (John Lennon Cover)
A couple of years ago, in the early days of the pandemic, Ian Shelton, leader of powerviolence monsters Regional Justice Center, started a hook-centric and hardcore-adjacent new project called Militarie Continue Reading
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PHONY – “The Middle”
This week, Joyce Manor touring guitarist Neil Berthier is releasing AT SOME POINT YOU STOP, his latest album under the name PHONY. We’ve heard “Kaleidoscope” and “Summer’s Cold” from it Continue Reading
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Julianna Riolino – “You”
Toronto alt-country standout Julianna Riolino (who also performs with Daniel Romano’s The Outfit) announced her debut album, All Blue, last month. All Blue follows Riolino 2019 EP J.R. and will Continue Reading
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Chat Pile – “Wicked Puppet Dance”
Oklahoma City’s Chat Pile make an extremely raw, caustic form of noise-rock that will wake you the fuck up if you’re feeling drowsy. Last year, Chat Pile released a split Continue Reading
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Lucy Dacus – “Believe” (Cher Cover)
Lucy Dacus is no stranger to a cover. She spent a whole year in between albums covering various songs and hasn’t slowed up on that tip since then. Her latest Continue Reading
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Slipknot – “The Dying Song (Time To Sing)”
Nü-metal mainstays Slipknot have announced a new album called THE END, SO FAR, their follow-up to 2019’s We Are Not Your Kind. In the time since, lead singer Corey Taylor Continue Reading
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Dead Cross – “Reign Of Error”
Dead Cross is a supergroup that makes frantic, unhinged hardcore. All the members of the band have a great deal of experience in punishing eardrums. The band’s singer is Mike Continue Reading
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Steven Spielberg Directed His First Music Video — For Marcus Mumford
Last week, Marcus Mumford released his debut solo single, “Cannibal.” When it came out, it was accompanied by a one-take music video shot in a high school gymnasium, but it Continue Reading
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Lupe Fiasco Gives a Deeper Meaning to His Music, Mindset and Martial Arts
Hear Me ClearlyIn the 15 years since he appeared on the inaugural XXL Freshman cover, Lupe Fiasco has changed a lot. Yet, he remains one of the illest lyricists in Continue Reading
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RL, Q Parker and Willie Taylor Collab and Release New Single, “Fireworks”
Three former R&B group members RL (Next) Q Parker (112) and Willie Taylor (Day 26) have teamed up and released a single, “Fireworks,” a slow, R&B ballad. It brings back Continue Reading
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Nardo Wick, Big30, Big Scarr and KenTheMan’s 2022 XXL Freshman Cypher
The 2022 XXL Freshman Class is here. You’ve seen their ABCs, listened to them respond to trolls for the Mean Comments segment and heard them spit in their individual freestyles. Now, Continue Reading
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Rachika Nayar – “Nausea”
Last month, the Brooklyn musician Rachika Nayar announced her sophomore album Heaven Come Crashing with its title track, which made its way onto our best songs of the week list. Continue Reading
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Noel Gourdin’s New Single “Get To You” is the Epitome of R&B Soul
Billboard chart-topping R&B Singer-Songwriter Noel Gourdin is back on the music scene and turning up the heat this summer with his new single, “Get To You.” The single was released Continue Reading
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SoFaygo, Doechii, KayCyy and Saucy Santana’s 2022 XXL Freshman Cypher
Tell the truth, this is what you’ve all been waiting for. Now, that the 2022 XXL Freshman Class is fully unsheathed, and the pleasantries of the Mean Comments, ABCs and Continue Reading
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