
The pairing of Khruangbin and Leon Bridges is a fairly easy one to conceptualize. Take the clean aesthetic of Khruangbin's grooves and add t...
The pairing of Khruangbin and Leon Bridges is a fairly easy one to conceptualize. Take the clean aesthetic of Khruangbin's grooves and add t...
It's hard to square the realities of 2019 with the title All News Is Good News, the debut from Australian instrumental soul band Surprise Ch...
Snow Hill, North Carolina only has 1,614 residents, but one of them has five mixtapes, three albums, a To Pimp a Butterfly Grammy and, now,...
Elevate is the debut album from Ohio-born, Brooklyn-based Tangina Stone, the followup to her EP The Fall, and the first release on Anastasia...
Even after 2014's Mali Is… earned him two Grammy nominations, Mali Music is still humble enough to overtly reintroduce himself mid-song. It...
Many will have first heard the name Will Sessions when they acted as the backing band for Elzhi's 2011 album, Elmatic, a recreation of Nas's...
Tuxedo II is the conspicuous continuation of 2015's Tuxedo, the lauded then-side project of Mayer Hawthorne and producer Jake One that found...
It's a shame there's no music industry equivalent to the academic practice of adding letters behind one's name to signify learned experience...
Chicago, the apparent poster child city for arts incubation, has again staked its claim to 2016 with the release of Saba's Bucket List Proje...
On the surface, Kadhja Bonet's The Visitor appears as a throwback to an era of gentle '60s-tinged jazz records. Over strings and buried drum...
Anderson .Paak and producer Knxwledge's Yes Lawd! feels in many ways like the spiritual successor to Below the Heavens, the 2007 collaborati...
"I was learning about my sound quite publicly," NAO says, reflecting on the progression between 2014's So Good EP and last year's February 1...
NAO wants to set the record straight. "Essentially, everything about the album — and I don't think it's arrogant to say — the album definite...
Two weeks before the release of her debut full-length album, UK R&B singer NAO was worried. The perpetual rumour mill of pending Frank Ocean...
We are told to separate the art and the artist, but Oddisee makes that proposition difficult. His work is so rooted in his development as a...
On her fifth solo album, Esperanza Spalding asks, what if her younger self had not gone on to pursue jazz greatness and instead embraced her...
BJ the Chicago Kid's EP of D'Angelo covers last month wasn't a dramatic reimagining of the material; there was no attempt to update the perf...
Five years after first introducing themselves to the world, KING wish to do so again with the plainly stated We Are King, the group's debut...
Los Angeles law school grad turned self-taught composer extraordinaire Adrian Younge has had a stealthy ascent following 2012's Something Ab...
Oceans Apart is the latest offering from Ghanaian-Canadian singer/songwriter Kae Sun, critically acclaimed for his 2013 Afriyie album. But t...