3+ hour, 38+ min ago  (949+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Brief Laughs by Wakai & Luke Mac Kenzie At a funeral repast, somebody cracks a joke, the room laughs for two seconds, then the grief slides back in. That window is the only relief these twelve…...

15+ hour, 38+ min ago  (813+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Now More Than Ever by Brian Jackson Fifty-year-old protest songs handed to singers who weren't born when they were written, set to Masters at Work's well-composed grooves. The worry going in is that a near-meltdown…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (806+ words) Shatter the Standards A Chicago rapper opens his fifth studio album with a spoken definition of heroin nods. Twenty-six songs later he still sounds like he picked up the phone mid-nap. Twelve years on from Alternative Trap, the Chicago kid…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (226+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Sound Therapy by JWords On her second solo LP, the Brooklyn producer finally raps and sings over her own beats'and the quietest moments say the most. Sound Therapy changes that. Hernandez raps and croons over…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (587+ words) Shatter the Standards EP Review: Patina by Casper Sage The Oklahoma City singer's most single-minded EP doesn't always vary the approach, but it never fakes the feeling. Casper Sage grew up in Oklahoma City teaching himself guitar and production from…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (900+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Santa Rosa by Fat Ray & Raphy Detroit's underground keeps feeding itself. Fat Ray and Raphy run back the Santa Barbara formula with better bars and bigger names. Danny Brown converted his loose collective of Detroit…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (423+ words) The lenticular cover art for ADL shows Yeat watching his own funeral on one side and his own wedding on the other. Two discs split the album along that axis'A Dangerous Lyfe for the excess and the cost, A Dangerous…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (969+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Supreme Cut Untouched Magnificence II by Da Flyy Hooligan A Harlesden rapper stocks his sequel with Conway, Gunn, and a posthumous Sean Price verse over vintage drumless Agor loops. The bravado is real, but so…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1053+ words) Bruno Mars: The Romantic GENA: The Pleasure Is Yours Foggieraw: With No Due Respect Stove God Cooks: Goat Stamp Mick Jenkins & green SLLIME: Black Ass Kung-Fu Flick (EVEN Exclusive) Michelle David & The True-Tones: Soul Woman Lil Ed & the Blues Imperials:…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1108+ words) Charli XCX: Wuthering Heights Eric Church: Evangeline vs. The Machine: Comes Alive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Jill Scott: To Whom This May Concern Tiana Major9: November Scorpio Waka Flocka Flame: Le Bron Flocka James 2 K26 Ras Kass: Leopard Eats Face Raheem De Vaughn:…...