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Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that caught our attention the most, be it a single leading up to the release of an album or a newly unveiled deep cut. And each Monday, we round up the best new songs released over the past week (the eligibility period begins

Drake‘s new album Certified Lover Boy, which arrived on Friday (September 3), features guest contributions from JAY-Z, Lil Wayne, Young Thug, Travis Scott, and many more. The credits for the album also list R. Kelly as a co-lyricist on a song called ‘TSU’. Now, longtime Drake producer Noah “40” Shebib has offered an explanation regarding the

Drake leaked an unreleased Kanye West track, the Andre 3000-featuring Donda outtake ‘Life of the Party’, during his guest DJ mix on SiriusXM’s Sound 42 last night following the release of his new album Certified Lover Boy. West’s verse on the song addresses the long-simmering feud between the two rappers, which Drake reignited with a

3 Stacks unwittingly factors into the latest plot twist and Drake and Kanye’s neverending beef. By Frazier Tharpe September 4, 2021 Drake, Andre 3000 and Big Boi at Compound on June 20, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia.Courtesy of Prince Williams/Wire Image Another week, another new bizarre development in Drake and Kanye West’s eternal cold war, which

André 3000 has issued a statement about ‘Life of the Party’, an unreleased Kanye West track that Drake played during a SiriusXM broadcast on September 3, and which features a rare appearance from Andre 3000. In the statement, the rapper expresses his disappointment at the song being shared as part of a feud between “two

Phoebe Bridgers performed a cover of Bo Burnham‘s ‘That Funny Feeling’ during her first traditional concert in nearly two years in Chesterfield, Missouri last night (September 3). The song is taken from Burnam’s comedy special Inside and its accompanying album Inside (The Songs), which is set to arrive on CD and vinyl on December 3. Watch

Drake’s video for “Way 2 Sexy” leans in on parody. By The Editors of GQ September 3, 2021 Kawhi Leonard, Drake and Young Thug in the video for “Way 2 Sexy.”Courtesy of OVO. The first official video from Drake’s new album Certified Lover Boy is here, and unsurprisingly it’s for “Way 2 Sexy,” the Future and

James Blake has pushed back the release date of his upcoming album Friends That Break Your Heart. Originally due for release on September 10, the LP is now set to arrive on October 8, a change attributed to COVID-19-related delays at vinyl pressing plants. “The release of ‘Friends That Break Your Heart’ will unfortunately be pushed

A week before Turnstile unleashed Glow On, another band whose melodic breakthrough featured an eye-catching pink cover released their latest LP. Over the course of their careers, the Baltimore post-hardcore outfit and San Francisco’s Deafheaven have both polarized fans while pushing the boundaries of heavy music, but each of their newest releases point to a

Strand of Oaks has shared the third single from his forthcoming record In Heaven, which comes out October 1 via Thirty Tigers. It’s called ‘Somewhere in Chicago’, and it follows previous entries ‘Jimi & Stan’ and ‘Galacticana’ (which was our Song of the Week). Give the track a listen below. “My ode to the late

Read a chapter from the rapper’s new memoir This Bright Future, where he details the emotional toll his first hit song took on him. By Bobby Hall September 2, 2021 Logic and his son.Courtesy of Bobby Hall. I wasn’t patient. Every mixtape and every album, I was trying every angle I could think of to

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on September 3, 2021: Drake, Certified Lover Boy Drake has released his new album Certified Lover Boy. The 21-track LP, Drake’s sixth proper album and his first since 2018’s Scorpion, was first announced last August and was originally set

allie is the moniker of Nashville-based musician Allie Cuva. After spending time in various musical projects and being recruited as the touring/session drummer for Cavetown, Cuva (who uses they/them pronouns) returned from touring with a sense of creative restlessness that inspired the 2020 EP Junior Coder’s Experiment, a collection of stripped-back but not quite lo-fi

David Crosby has announced a deluxe reissue of his solo debut If I Could Only Remember My Name. The double-disc 50th anniversary edition of the album, which is out October 15, will include more than a dozen previously unreleased demos and alternate takes. To accompany the announcement, Crosby has shared the previously unreleased demo ‘Riff

Inspired by his beloved mother, Kanye’s 10th album falls short of a homecoming. By Stephen Kearse August 31, 2021 Gunner Stahl / Courtesy of DONDA In 2007, at a Chicago State University conference honoring poet Gwendolyn Brooks, Donda West spoke about raising her son. Swelling with pride and quoting lyrics from The College Dropout, the

It was meant to be a simple father-and-son trip to the desert. But the looming threat of climate change—and the more pressing dangers of heatstroke and falling rocks—made it something more. By Will Bahr September 1, 2021 Collage by Simon Abranowicz; Getty Images I miss my flight to the Grand Canyon. It’s ten days before

Born in Greenwich, Connecticut and raised in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Madi Diaz grew up surrounded by music. She was homeschooled by her Peruvian mother and studied piano with her Danish father, who played in various prog bands, before switching to guitar and exploring songwriting during her teens. While a student at Berklee College of

American grindcore band Full of Hell have previewed their forthcoming album Garden of Burning Apparitions with a new track titled ‘Reeking Tunnels’, which follows recent single ‘Industrial Messiah Complex’. Check it out below. “‘Reeking Tunnels’ is the foil to the cacophonous blasting on either side,” bandleader Dylan Walker remarked in a press release. “Channeling CopShootCop

The icon of global cinema stars in an American film—and comes to the Marvel universe—for the first time. By Alexander Chee Photography by Isaac Lam August 31, 2021 Jacket, $2,990, and shirt, $990, by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello. When they first met to discuss casting what would become the latest Marvel movie, Shang-Chi and

Runnner, a.k.a. Noah Weinman, has shared a new song, ‘Snowplow’, featuring fellow LA singer-songwriter Helen Ballentine of Skullcrusher. The collaboration is a reworking of ‘Urgent Care’, from Runnner’s debut LP Always Repeating. Give it a listen below. Weinman co-produced Bellentine’s self-titled debut Skullcrusher EP, which landed on our Best EPs of 2020 list. Runnner and Skullcrusher are

The title of Villagers’ fifth record, Fever Dreams, may imply a listening experience that leaves you feeling under the weather, but the effect created by lead musician Conor O’Brien is quite the opposite: each track brims with the energy of pirouetting keys and ebullient saxophone solos. Spanning the last decade and earning him an Ivor

The man who helped invent modern NYC nightlife faces new challenges—Covid, Brooklyn—with aplomb and plenty of dancing. By Tim Latterner August 27, 2021 Collage by Simon Abranowicz; Photograph Sean Zanni; Getty Images It’s just past midnight when the front door of Paul’s Casablanca swings open to reveal a man wearing a dark suit and a

Lee “Scratch” Perry, the Jamaican dub and reggae legend, has died at the age of 85, as the Jamaica Observer and The Guardian report. He passed away at Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea, Jamaica on Sunday morning. No cause of death has been revealed. Perry was born in the village of Kendal in Jamaica in