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PARKE
It felt like a fresh start, felt like a new era. Same with this music; I didn't put a single out, it was just the album went straight to it because I think I'm just an album person. I think it's more interesting, but it just felt nice and literally like a refresh, like I just showered and just came out.”
Read Above: Parke, the rapper and producer formerly of the name Dominsquis, has broken ground with his new album, Zombie, compounding the dynamic blend hip-hop, rock, and punk influences that he began exploring under his old alias into a thrilling blend of tracks that not only amp up the sonic pressure from his previous projects but also serve, in a way, as their ultimate fruition,
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Rhys Langston, the literary-minded, enigmatic abstract rapper from Los Angeles, has been calibrating his pen and creative approach since he was a child, but, since his full-faced discovery of music as a creative outlet as an adult, has become one of the most intriguing rappers on the scene.
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“On the clock”- The Making of 3rd shift documentary
2024, Directed by Ryan Heinz
In compliment to their recent album, “3rd Shift”, veteran rappers Squadda B and JUS have released a documentary compiling footage of their months of writing and recording. Made in summertime Detroit, the album is, in part, based on the grind mentality of the Motor City. With beats by Squadda and flows by JUS, Fat Ray, and more, it has been one of the must-listens of 2024.
Normally based in Oakland, Squadda says that traveling repeatedly to Detroit in order to make the album was “Definitely needed. You’ve got to kind of get out of your comfort zone a little bit, and I'm very comfortable in Detroit. But still… you're not at home. You're not near your bed.”
Watch the documentary now to see how the two artists push each other out of their comfort zones in order to create a gem of a project.
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10 Questions w/ odelet
Odelet, the Detroit-born producer and multi-instrumentalist, has been experimenting between genres for multiple years now, and, with the release of their newest album, Angels (Revived), the experiment has reached new heights.
A dynamic blend of soul, funk, jazz, reggae, and other musical roots, the album encapsulates perfectly the genre-agnosticism that permeates Odelet’s creative output.
Currently based on the West Coast, their work in visual art has slowly become intertwined with their musical ventures, and the ultimate result, which is in part represented in Angels (Revived), has blossomed into a transformation of their creative process and manifestation of sound.
Artist profiles
Kinna Mone, the Tel Aviv-based singer-songwriter, music producer, and DJ, has spent the year since her relocation refining her sound and honing her craft, and, with the release of her debut album, Therapeutic Nights Out, she has finally found the ideal outlet for her unique blend of sonic textures, transplanting the vulnerability and openness of her usual lyrical structures to the booming, bassy atmosphere of club music.
Kinna Mone
Angus Wayne, the indie artist from Nyack, New York, has spent years shifting between the different phases of his sound, constantly circling around and enclosing the personable and intimate sonic setting that caused him to fall in love with music in the first place, and, with the release of his new EP “lamppost” he has, at least temporarily, struck a balance, melding the lo-fi hip-hop and guitar-oriented sounds that have previously defined his surrealistic and existential output.
angus wayne
Kiersten Blue
Kiersten Blue, the New Jersey-born singer-songwriter, has only ventured into the musical realm since pandemic-induced boredom led her to pick up a guitar for the first time since her childhood, but, in the time since, she has etched out a unique, ‘90s-inspired pop sound that, on her debut EP “Girl In The Mirror”, has brought her unique lyrical slant to its most complete fruition to date.
Joyer, the noise-leaning, indie rock band led by brothers Nick and Shane Sullivan, have reached an identity rooted in a careful intentionality, maintaining many of the Slowcore-driven influences that defined their earlier output while gaining a stronger appreciation for the traditional song structures that have lent a kind ear upon their newest creative era.
Joyer
Fatboi Sharif, who represents one of the most unique and harrowing voices in modern hip-hop, has been continuously attracted to the power latent in music, its capacity to bring out an inner, withheld emotion from both the listener and the artist, since he was a child.