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  • Jun 6 Album Reviews

    Blu - Good To Be Home

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    Blu’s latest album is pure ambition hampered by an incredibly weak recording.

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  • Jun 5 hip hop

    YC The Cynic - "Night Thoughts" (prod. Yuri Beats)

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    Beloved New York lyricist YC the Cynic drops a new single and music video under the title “Night Thoughts.” It’s an eerie instrumental with lyrics set to the theme of a relationship that I don’t think is going too well. Check out YC’s last album, and cross

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  • Jun 5 Album Reviews

    Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal

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    The latest effort from Parquet Courts record is art punk minimalism stretched out to nearly excruciating lengths.

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  • Jun 4 ghostly

    Matrixxman - "The Caravan"

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    Some dark, atmospheric, chilling techno coming through on this new Matrixxman track, “The Caravan,” which is featured on the b-side of a new EP this guy has coming out via Ghostly Intl. on June 9th. If you’re looking for cerebral rhythms you can get lost in, here ya go.

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  • Jun 4 appetite for production

    Mux Mool - Appetite for Production

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    https://soundcloud.com/super-best-records/sets/appetite-for-production Brooklyn beatmaker Brian Lindgren, a.k.a. Mux Mool, has a new EP out through Super Best Records that you can listen to and download for free above. The set has an instrumental hip hop vibe and continues Lindgren’s fuxing about with house

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  • Jun 4 can't do without you

    Caribou - "Can't Do Without You"

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    https://soundcloud.com/caribouband/cant-do-without-you While we haven’t been head-over-heels for the most recent projects from veteran electronic musician Dan Snaith (Caribou & Daphni), we can’t say he has ever stopped delivering some fantastic dance and techno grooves, and it’s great he’s been able to maintain

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  • Jun 4 beat

    FOODMAN - oiss & hamakko EPs

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    oiss EP by FOODMAN We’ve been following the Soundcloud of enigmatic producer FOODMAN for a while now, enjoying his colorful, oddball brand of juke and footwork music. We’re very happy to report that he has been fleshing out his ideas, and has recently dropped two meaty EPs that

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  • Jun 4 Album Reviews

    RiFF RAFF - NEON iCON

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    On his biggest commercial release to date, enigmatic rapper Riff Raff brings a heightened version of the goofy, hilarious trap rap that he’s known for, but he doesn’t do it consistently

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  • Jun 4 cocaine

    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - "Deeper"

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    Freddie Gibbs and Madlib drop some visuals for “Deeper,” which was one of the lead singles off their new full-length together, Piñata. The video basically goes through the storyline Gibbs is rapping about in the song itself–except it doesn’t really look like that guy’s trying to be

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  • Jun 4 crystal stilts

    Crystal Stilts - "Delirium Tremendous"

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    The eeriest New York garage rock act is dropping a new single via Sacred Bones Records this month, which you can stream above. To me, this is a pretty refreshing track for Crystal Stilts. Not only does the performance seem a bit more coherent than some of the takes on

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