Jill Mapes - Hearing Things

I'm one of the founders of Hearing Things. I host our podcast Waste or Taste. I also teach @ NYU's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Previously edited features @ Pitchfork. Been doing this long enough to make ppl go, "wow you're still writing"

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Five Albums

One of the Most Audacious Debuts of the Year

Plus intergalactic dance music to throw ass to.

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Five Songs

Miley's Religious Conversion

Plus music that looks at life's hardships and says, 'That's all you got?'

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Five Albums

Rebuilding Your Home Through the Power of Music

Plus avant-garde shoegaze-jazz-rap-soul for the apocalypse.

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Five Songs

When a Rapper Aims a Diss Track at His Own Wife

Plus a strangely beautiful RHCP cover and more.

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Five Albums

An ICE Agent’s Least Favorite Rap Duo

Plus down-to-earth country-rock

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Existential Playlist

Sweeping Promises On the Songs They Want to Soundtrack Their Funerals

The husband-wife punk duo eyes German art song and hard-to-handle drone music for their final requests.

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Five Songs

Drake Musical Theater, But Somehow Good

Plus: Are those samples having sex?

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Five Albums

A Love Letter for The End of the World

Plus gauzy shoegaze meets outré Latin trap and a Swedish ambient musician's hauntological field recordings

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Five Songs

Gen-Z Rock Philosophy and Psychedelic Onomatopoeia

Plus bubbly Japanese synth-funk and more

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Five Albums

Did Someone Say "Supergroups"?

Plus the 11-years-later return of the Alabama Shakes.

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Five Songs

A Fiddlin’ Funk Fantasy Called “Froggy”

Plus synth music that will make you want to go rodent mode

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Five Albums

Real Rockers Fostering Real Community (Seriously)

Plus a Must Hear album from a prolific ambient-rap stalwart, a lovelorn tribute to UK funky house, a frenetic hip-hop reunion, and Weezer's latest nostalgia grab.

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