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Jill's pick for this week's Five Albums is DJ Notoya's Tokyo Bliss, a riveting compliation of Japanese funk, boogie, and city pop. Subscribe here to read Jill's thoughts: www.hearingthings.co/reclaimed-ci...

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Dylan pondered three albums he's listened to lately—by Boldy James, Mike, and Drake—and the ways they look to their pasts to understand their current predicaments

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Julianne's pick for this week's Five Albums is Nigerian singer Seyi Vibez's latest EP Children of Africa, a 4-song collection that makes the case for him as an Afrobeats innovator. Subscribe here to read Julianne's thoughts: www.hearingthings.co/reclaimed-ci...

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On March 20—the first day of spring!—we’ll be hosting our first live event: an evening at the Ridgewood, Queens, DIY hub Trans-Pecos, featuring a special performance from Afro-pop auteur Lollise and DJs spinning records all night long.

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Two recent documentaries throw into sharp relief the different ways the music industry treats Black and white legacy artists. 'Sly Lives!' is an attempt to correct and clarify the record; 'Becoming Led Zeppelin' is an attempt to further muddle it.

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Andy's pick for this week's Five Albums is reclusive UK producer Michael J. Blood's chaotic and fun dance record Spaces In Between, which brought him back to the dancefloor in more ways than one. Subscribe here to find out how: www.hearingthings.co/reclaimed-ci...

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Dylan's pick for this week's Five Albums is New Jersey rapper Papo2oo4 and producer Subjxct 5's Winnertime 2.0, a modern spin on wintry East Coast hip-hop indebted to G-Unit and Kay Slay tapes without feeling overly tethered to them. Subscribe here: www.hearingthings.co/reclaimed-ci...

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Ryan's pick for this week's Five Albums newsletter is Japanese-Canadian singer and multi-instrumentalist Saya Grey's latest album Saya, which fits her genre-agnostic style into more traditional song shapes beaming with prismatic heartache. Subscribe here: www.hearingthings.co/reclaimed-ci...

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In this week's edition of Five Albums, we have breezy Japanese city pop, harsh deconstructed club music, wintry East Coast hip-hop, and more. Subscribe to Hearing Things to read the full list!

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This shit is a masterpiece!

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If you’ve ever replaced a needle for an old turntable you found at a garage sale, odds are you purchased one of JICO’s handmade clones

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We have a whole cultural shorthand for musicians who manage it once and never again: You don’t hear about quite as many one-hit-wonder novelists

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Marshall Allen, leader of the Sun Ra Arkestra, began work on his debut solo album New Dawn two days after turning 100. It can feel like a transmission from the future and an echo of the distant past, and it's one of our picks for this week's Five Albums:

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A top-tier hi-fi system can fundamentally change how you think about music

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Where do songs come from?

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"This song is like a big 'fuck you,' but done in a very non-punk-rock way—because Billy Joel is as far away from punk as you could get."

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Chicago-based indie rock trio Horsegirl's sophomore album Phonetics On & On will win you over with their sweet-but-deadpan harmonies and groovy riffs. It's one of our picks for this week's Five Albums. Read more here: www.hearingthings.co/a-100-year-o...

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"We just have a whole ass Pink Panther costume and no idea what to do with it." Find out why the indie-rap titan MIKE spent $1,132.30 on a mascot suit in the latest (and very funny) installment of our Credit History series

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Philly producer Q No Rap Name’s Living Room is as raw as beat tapes come. Many of the songs feel like items fallen out of pockets into the darkest corners of the couch, covered in grime but still holding faint memories. Read about it and others in Five Albums: www.hearingthings.co/a-100-year-o...

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Kelela's 'In The Blue Light' strips the synthetic bells and whistles from her music, reimagining her songs as explosive jazz and soul standards. It's a document meant to echo into the future, and one of our picks for this week's Five Albums: www.hearingthings.co/a-100-year-o...

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In this week's edition of Five Albums, we've got a 100-year-old jazz artist's debut album, a scorching live project from one of R&B's finest, & more. Subscribe to Hearing Things to read the full piece!

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'It's Cold In Baltimore,' the second collaboration by Valentina Magaletti and Zongamin under the name V/Z, is a batch blown-out post-punk and dub fit for a post-apocalyptic city battling a nuclear winter

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Every record by London-based producer-drummer Valentina Magaletti, which jumps from unapologetic punk to gossamer ambient music, is as unexpected as It is essential. 'It's Cold In Baltimore', a team-up with Japanese musician Susumu Mukai, is no exception.

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"Billy Joel has a flair for the dramatic, but he packages it in this angry young man character. It’s very uncool music, which I tend to gravitate towards."

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The rave is everywhere if the rave lives in your heart

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"I’ve always existed in a counterculture, but because there was this moment where the counterculture became culture, we forgot it was always a counterculture. We’re not supposed to be mainstream."

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The album as a whole has the feeling of a heroic journey through strange and faraway lands, like a soundtrack to an epic adventure game

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In the far-flung Japanese town of Hamasaka, people from around the world are encouraged to bring their own LPs for a two-and-a-half-hour private session on one of the finest hi-fi systems in the country

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With the onetime DIY hero Alex G now on a major label, fans desperate for the scrappy charm of his early work can take solace in this album by a couple of best friends from Northern England

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"I want to be cremated, and then used in the resin of a larger-than-life statue of a mythological version of me with sick wings that would stay in the home garden and look really epic."

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On “Striptease,” the sub-bass seems designed to ignite a truncal twitch; a cascading tweeter on the Björkian “Room of Fools” sounds like an Ableton cue for a flick of the eyes (an underrated body part in choreography)

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If Christopher Nolan ever makes a movie set in a post-apocalyptic S&M nethersphere, this needs to be on the soundtrack

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There are many economic issues that impact musicians specifically. But on the question of healthcare, we are in the same boat as the more than 50 million other Americans who do gig work of any kind

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"The best way to approach music is to never spend more than you have, be very frugal, and always do things DIY."

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"I thought I was choosing an extremely obscure song to cover for the special. But then every straight guy I talked to about it was like, 'Yeah, it’s one of Neil Young’s most famous songs.'" www.hearingthings.co/john-early-o...

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Since the 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' era, major statement rap albums have favored blow-out spectacle and obsessive curation. These records run counter to that impulse, giving the artists space to be messy and contradictory. www.hearingthings.co/pink-siifu-a...

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We've all thought about it: What songs do you want played at your funeral?

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If you’re wondering what might play at a replicant rave once they take over Earth, do I have the album for you...

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Read Julianne's essay on FKA Twigs' 𝘌𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢, and how it relates to trauma, kink, Martha Graham, axolotls, and "the quickening"

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"'The Cruel Mother' is a really fucked up English folk song. What kind of woman sings that to her kid? My mother! By the end I would be screaming at her to stop." — Matt Sweeney

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On Nino Paid's 'Love Me as I Am', death always seems to be a breath away. But, somehow, some way, he’s still here, presenting his story as one of unlikely perseverance. Read this and other recommendations in our Five Albums newsletter here: www.hearingthings.co/five-albums-...

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Lady Gaga's "Abracadabra" isn't exactly casting any spells over the Hearing Things staff. Check out this week's episode of Waste or Taste for more context: www.hearingthings.co/waste-or-tas...

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For this week's Five Albums newsletter, we've got exquisite DMV pain rap, a triumphant comeback by a Chicago dancefloor legend, art pop that hits like a trance rave at a Renaissance Faire, and more. Subscribe to Hearing Things to see (and hear) the rest!

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Keiyaa's debut stage play 'Milk Thot' channels the R&B experimentalist's restless creativity and dry wit into a 70-minute bout of ego death, self-reflection, and new music from her upcoming sophomore album

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Yes, there are drops. Yes, there are frequencies that all but require you to add a massive subwoofer to your hi-fi setup. And yes, the track will make you headbang hard enough to schedule a chiropractor appointment.

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We’re not trying to catalog the biggest or (supposedly) most important new releases, but to share records that move us, delight us, and/or blow our minds—whether they’re self-released or on a major label

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The Magdalena Bay experience is akin to putting on a cheap alien costume, downing some potent psychedelics, and then staring into a mirror covered in fake blood for approximately three days straight

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"There’s always this thing of: 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘴! I don’t agree with that. Maybe 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘴 can save us."

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Kendrick’s opening verse on “All the Stars” hit a bit different at the Super Bowl and made me wonder—is this song also about Drake?!

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Every angle of Kendrick's evisceration seemed to be covered—but the one that snuck up on me involved his redefinition of an otherwise middling soundtrack single

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