Jaylin Wade remembers a night in 2019 when he’d just gotten into bed, shortly after 1 AM, and a FaceTime call yanked him awake. His friend Jordan Patterson had just finished a track and knew he had to send it to Jaylin. Jordan produces loose-limbed hip-hop under the name Cloud Boy, and Jaylin raps as […]
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Bandcamp Friday returns just in time to save you from holiday shipping delays
I’ve already begun to miss Halloween, because I’m not looking forward to being bombarded by Christmas every time I walk outside for two straight months. But I suppose it can’t hurt to remind any of y’all who celebrate some form of gift-giving holiday to get presents for your loved ones early, and not just because […]
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Bitchin Bajas travel the spaceways on their new album
Update on Thu 11/4: Due to a positive COVID-19 test among Fulton Street Collective’s event-planning staff, the Unity Night fundraising event on Sat 11/6 has been tentatively rescheduled for Sat 3/26/2022. Ticket holders for the November date can get refunds or retain their tickets to use in March. They haven’t released a full-length of new […]
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Chicago’s Blake Saint David knows how to navigate our genreless future
Brockhampton, Billie Eilish, Khalid, and scores of other musicians who’ve emerged in the past few years have taken a wrecking ball to genre divides and gotten hugely popular in the process. The genreless state of pop has also produced a lot of gray, emotionally static music, of course, just like happens within any genre, but […]
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Meet local bedroom-pop wunderkind Victor, who just sold out of his debut EP in a week
Seventeen-year-old Victor Cervantes has only been posting his songs online for a few months, but he’s already built a large and loyal audience.