Author: Ben Farrell It’s been three years since the world last heard from TDE signee and LA Rap icon Schoolboy Q. Over the course of those three years it seems that the rapper has to a certain extent re-jiggered his creative … Read More >
Author: Zoey Knox The Titanic sank on April 12, 1912. On April 5, 2019, it rose again, and this time Weyes Blood is steering the ship. Weyes Blood hooked me with the song “Seven Words” from … Read More >
Author: Ben Farrell Album Rating: I had my first encounter with Ratking as a 14-year-old kid in New York City. It was at the first rap concert I’d ever had the chance to see. The group put on a … Read More >
Stella Donnelly has read your diary. Or, at least, on her first full-length album, Beware of the Dogs, she writes like she has. Beware of the Dogs follows up the 26-year-old singer’s 2018 EP, Thrush Metal. Based in Perth, Australia, Donnelly toured with Secretly Canadian label-mate Faye Webster earlier this year and will set out on tour with Snail Mail this summer in support of her new album.
Author: Ben Farrell To kick off the monthly throwback album review series here at WSUM, we’ve chosen a record whose minimalism is its defining feature. Brian Eno’s 1975 LP Discreet Music garnered critical acclaim, and got him in the studio … Read More >
Author: Dan Doherty Trivium, a metal band from Florida, released their eighth studio album, The Sin and the Sentence, on October 20, 2017. This new album contrasts strongly to their previous Silence in the Snow, marking the return of screaming, … Read More >
Author: Izzi Bavis Fatimah Nyeema Warner, more commonly known as Noname, brought out the chiller side of Chicago’s rap scene in late July of 2016. Telefone, a ten song, 30-minute album features upwards of ten musicians, six of which … Read More >
JENNY HVAL - The Practice of Love
MUNA - Saves the World
SQUID - Town Centre [EP]
TWIN PEAKS - Lookout Low
STONE IRR - Performance