You might have heard iLoveMakonnen’s “Tuesday” once or twice last year. After signing with Drake’s OVO Sound label, Makonnen has dropped his first mixtape since last year’s I Love Makonnen. The eleven track mixtape features fellow ATL rappers Migos and a number of others. You can stream the whole thing below or download it right here.
After a residency at Zoo Labs and much hard work, Oakland’s Bells Atlas are preparing to release their Hyperlust EP this spring. Composed of Sandra Lawson-Ndu, Derek Barber, Geneva Harrison and Doug Stuart, Bells Atlas released Hyperlust‘s first single “Future Bones” this week. In the veins of Dirty Projectors, tUnE-yArDs, Deerhoof and Ava Luna, Bells Atlas craft complex arrangements, intricate layering and polyrhythmic […]
Oakland, CA’s Astronauts, etc dropped a beautiful new track this morning. They describe it as a “thawed-out, 1970s-inflected” track that falls “somewhere between Grizzly Bear, The Bee Gees, and Sade.” Not an inaccurate description by any means. Astronauts, etc–lead by Anthony Ferraro–recorded “I Know” fully analog to tape at Tiny Telephone here in the Bay […]
Los Angeles producer Noah McBeth aka NoMBe is preparing to release his Mood Indigo EP and shared track “California Girls”. The breezy, 21st century soul vibes should be right up the alley of anyone into Chet Faker. It’s also just a great springtime, West Coast track in general. Stream the track below and we’ll share any word […]
Oakland’s Waterstrider will release their debut LP Nowhere Now on April 6. The five-piece previously shared album tracks “White Light” and “Calliope”. Now we can add the title track “Nowhere Now” to that list. As Waterstrider’s frontman Nate Salman noted, “this song is probably the culmination of everything I’ve been creating for the last few years.” […]