An Instant Party-Starter Anywhere on Planet Earth
Plus: a melancholy world of glass-topped coffee tables and Armani suits, and a rapper with a vocab sure to melt even the thickest thesaurus.
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Old Sounds Made New
Wake-and-bake breakup anthems, lost sessions from a modern indie-rap classic, and a post-punk singer who sounds like Lou Reed after a three-week bender.
How Cain Culto Forged a Path in the Fire
Get to know the rapping, fiddling Latine Loki with a smudge of black kohl around his eyes.
A Musical Threesome, Just in Time for Pride Month
Plus a Must Hear rap song, house music to worry to, and more.
Put a Seashell to Your Ear
Plus Vince Staples’ rock album, Death Cab’s comeback, and Must-Hear Mexican R&B
Flop Alert, Ariana Grande Edition
Podcast takes on new tracks from Glinda the Good, electro-pop girlie Kim Petras, and breathless New York rapper Errol Holden.
3 Must Hears 4 Fresh Ears
This week we’ve got grimy club jazz from an outré techno vet, eerie romance set to traditional Caribbean styles, Southern Gothic coming-of-age collage-rap, and more.
Fine Dining But Make It Latin Trap
Plus: Veeze avoids the empty calories on his leaked-mixtape edit.
The One New Drake Song You Need to Hear
Plus Weird Al's weed stash, the next great young London art-rock band, and more.
Kiwi Lenderman and Copycat Extraordinaires
Plus: fretless guitar and funky drum machine jams from an Orthodox priest in coastal Greece.
‘Mighty Real’ Sets the Record Queer on the History of LGBTQ Music
Amid a music-writer milieu still dominated by straight perspectives, Barry Walters’ new book offers a much-needed alternate history of pop, from the Velvet Underground to RuPaul.