R&B
Machinedrum (a.k.a Travis Stewart) will release a new album on Ninja Tune. Stewart’s journey to making 3FOR82 began, fittingly, on March 4 last year. For his 41st birthday, he ventured out to Joshua Tree National Park, California, to seek clarity and inspiration for a new album. “I’ve been to Joshua Tree many times and I’ve […]
The techno of Detroit DJ-producer DJ 3000 (born Franki Juncaj) can be distinguished by its heavy sampling and instrumentation drawing from his Albanian heritage. A longtime Underground Resistance associate, he was raised in Hamtramck, Michigan, a city within the Detroit borders that is heavily populated by immigrants from Southeastern Europe and the Middle East. He […]
Gaika (born Gaika Tavares) will release a new album on Big Dada Recordings. Across 14 new tracks, Drift is piece of shape-shifting body of work with hip-hop and club music at its core. It has a psychedelic feel that is formed by incorporating ’90s grunge, dark wave, post-punk, and alt-rock into its tapestry. We’re told […]
Growing up, Kareem Ali—a native of New York who now lives in Tucson, Arizona—wanted to be a rocket scientist and his first musical love was jazz. He found an early hero in Miles Davis, whose seminal Kind of Blue LP prompted Ali to pick up the trumpet back in middle school. More than a decade […]
Ari LaShell (born Arianna Calloway), a neo-soul songwriter from Atlanta, has released her debut EP. LaShell, who has been singing since the age of three, moved from Detroit to Atlanta after eight grade and became infatuated with music during high school. Over the past few years, she’s been releasing singles through her Soundcloud page, spanning […]
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