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Trav B Ryan’s “Red Stars,” released on September 13, 2025, arrives as one of the artist’s most personal and cinematic works to date—a visceral piece born of Brooklyn grit, DC Comics mythology, and the scars still sore from being let down by a parent figure early on. Inspired by Red…

Tenzoe’s debut album Eremition, released October 22nd, 2025, introduces a bold, introspective force in Chicago hip-hop, a 22-track LP like a spiritual rite of passage. Built on the idea of a modern monastery where boom bap drums replace monastery bells, the album merges raw emceeing with philosophical depth, pulling listeners…

Daniel Alspach’s new single, “I’ll Follow,” releasing on 21st November 2025, is a surprisingly universal moment in his growing artistic journey. Hailing from Fostoria, Ohio, Alspach has always leaned into sincerity, but here he hits a new stride, helped along by producer Inc. CVRNTE on the instrumental and Italy-based Diego…

X U is a rising force in China’s experimental music scene—a Berklee-trained sound designer and producer pioneering a new Hyperpop subgenre he calls emo-glitch. Imagine Arca’s tear-streaked, distorted synthscapes colliding with the raw vulnerability of Lil Peep’s vocals, and you’re close to the sonic world he’s building. His upcoming single,…

Aspen’s ever-eccentric cultural collective Staunch Moderates swings for the end zone again with “Bigfoot’s Football Live,” a tongue-in-cheek hip-hop sports anthem that folds satire, spectacle, and smugness into one spirited rally cry. The group, founded by Greg Simmons and Bo Persiko as a grassroots movement for civil discourse, has spent…

SERIOUS VOICE comes in swinging with “99 PROBLEMS,” a blistering confessional cut pulled from her forthcoming album Tessa’s Daughter, and she delivers it with the exact mix of grit, truth-telling, and spiritual fire that’s kept her at the forefront of New York’s hip hop underground. The Brooklyn emcee, shaped by…

“Hatchet,” the new Halloween-themed single from Rochester artist Neeve Rose, arrives on October 31st, 2025 as a dark, seductive twist in her evolving sound. Produced by Sean Guidry with co-production from Sam Hitchcock and mixed/mastered by Daniel Alan Grace, the track marks her first full concept piece, with a razor-sharp,…

Minnie’s debut cover single “Money,” released August 8, 2025, introduces a rapper from Hawthorne with enough confidence and clarity of purpose to cut straight through the noise. Known offstage as Sharmayn, she arrives with a DIY spirit, writing her own lyrics, shaping her own voice, and leaning into a sense…

Elion Melody’s Engraved Onto Infinity, released October 24, 2025, feels like cracking open someone’s long-distance love letters and finding each page humming with its own rhythm. The New York artist has always had a soft spot for vulnerability, but here he pushes deeper as he traces a relationship stretched across…

Grim Logick & Illlogick’s Cipher Chronicles: The Network Archives plays like a corrupted hard drive leaking memories and wounds straight into your headphones. The album is built as a fictional archive, with file numbers, AI narrators, digital fractures, but it hits with the rawness of a diary written in the…