album reviews

Make way for a new realm of rap with D’Chrome Foster as he explores nihilism in “Gang”.  A soliloquy of how black men experience trauma and how it affects their identity. Spot lighting the traps of society, where any option is a double…

It’s unclear whether record collector rock is an actual genre, but it might be the best descriptor for Ithaca’s Material Objects. The trio released In Revision, their first full length, earlier this month on Resident Recordings.…

Jeremy Hilliard announced the release of his newest album Going Back To Where It All Began which dropped October 4. The full-length album contains 13 tracks, all of which are originals. Jeremy is a songwriter and guitarist living in…

AstroGun, a Queens-based alternative rock band, has released their new LP The Underground Sessions. The 11 tracks are, as intended, raw and authentic with the hollow creaks of instruments and the echoes of underground jam sessions. …

Syracuse-born, Nashville-based artist Mick Fury dropped his latest project earlier this summer titled 1981-1996. In a popular music landscape congested with hollow lyrics, cheap sentiments, and reused sounds, the album stands out for its…

The coronation of Fivio Foreign has long been in the works. Since the death  Pop Smoke over two-years ago, there has been a void within the New York music landscape and it seems as though Fivio Foreign has been handpicked to carry the…

They say love is all-around. Sometimes the feeling is as palpable as an embrace. Yet, finding the accurate words to frame love into its proper context remains one of the world’s greater mysteries. Love can be all-encompassing, it can be…

As Benny the Butcher and his Griselda cohorts further entrench themselves in the music industry and the lines between mixtapes and studio albums continue to blur, the Buffalo-bred rapper returns with another edition of his cult-like…

The latest release from Sean Rowe, The Darkness Dressed in Colored Lights, is not just a thrilling listen. From first glance, the project begins its journey with listeners through its arresting album cover. The thought-provoking artwork…

Kendrick Lamar once said, “Critics want to mention that they miss when hip-hop was rappin’/ Motherf*****, if you did, then Killer Mike would be platinum.” As great of a line as that was, let’s make one thing clear; all forms of hip-hop are…