Emerging from the smoking wreckage of 2024, Drake has been frantically trying to right the ship after picking the wrong fight(s) last year. While his efforts to curtail the spread of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” onslaught through legal means seem like a case of “too little, too late,” Some Sexy Songs 4 U, his recently released joint album with Partynextdoor, seemingly put him back in good standing with his core fans. Meanwhile, the video for that album’s standout track, “Nokia,” might just be another step in the right direction.
Gone are the moody visuals and tough guy posturing of much of his For All The Dogs video output. Instead of pouting his way through a dystopian tableau or posing with Albanian mobsters, Drake puts on a lively show in the “Nokia” — albeit in cinematic grayscale, which honestly, might fit the theme for those of his fans old enough to remember playing Snake under the desk in class on their trusty gray brick phones.
Flanked by fleets of dancers evoking the dot matrix of those phones’ old two-color screens and bopping along like he doesn’t have a care in the world, Drake looks and sounds like he’s actually having fun again — which, lest we all forget, is when he’s usually at his best. Of particular note are the facts that he released the video via his “burner” YouTube, which could signify a reset for him, while the video itself was reportedly shot in IMAX, which is at least a cool tidbit that shows he’s still got grander visions for his career. The video also stars Canadian NBA star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, proving Drake still has a few supporters in the league — in this case, an MVP candidate.
Back in 2022, it was announced that Kendrick Lamar, Dave Free, and the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, were developing a comedy film about a slavery re-enactor who discovers that his girlfriend’s family once owned his. Last year, the release date was set for this Independence Day, July 4, 2025.
However, in December, Kendrick announced his Grand National Tour with SZA, which kicks off on April 19 and runs through mid-June, which means Kendrick wouldn’t be available for the film’s press tour. Which could explain why Deadline reports that the live-action comedy has been rescheduled to March 20, 2026. As Deadline notes, this leaves the summer schedule a bit more wide-open this year for blockbuster hopefuls Jurassic World Rebirth and Superman.
Little is known about the film beyond the above tagline, although Stone did chat with Bloomberg about the movie, calling it “funny” that the release date would have pitted the comedy against the latest installment of the Jurassic Park franchise. The movie will be Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free’s first film as producers, expanding the rapper’s run of pop culture dominance that included performing at the Super Bowl, securing yet another No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, GNX, and garnering a new No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit in “Luther” with SZA.
The 2025 Dreamville Festival headlined by Lil Wayne and the Hot Boys is swiftly approaching, but there’s plenty to do before this weekend. The festival has released the schedule for Dreamville Fest Week, detailing all the free public events in downtown Raleigh leading up to the festival’s final show. Starting Wednesday with the Dreamville Fest Pop-Up Shop and including Dreamville Public Access, a series of panels, the activities on offer run the gamut from health and wellness classes to game nights and car shows.
Fans looking to learn how to break into the music business can attend Dreamville University at Shaw University, with courses breaking down the basics on Thursday, while standup fans can check out “Punchanella Comedy Clash” with Doctur Dot of Earthgang. Meanwhile, the Dreamville Public Access panels have talks on music production, from sampling to engineering, with hitmakers like T-Minus, Boi-1da, Easy Moe Bee, and Large Professor.
Along with one of its most star-studded lineups yet (Erykah Badu, GloRilla, Ludacris, PartyNextDoor, Tems, and more are on the bill), the final Dreamville fest is going to feature its largest food lineup yet, with more than 75 local vendors. You can see the full schedule for Dreamville Fest Week below and find more info here.
Stagecoach has quite the lineup for 2025, featuring everybody from Lana Del Rey to Shaboozey to Nelly to Zach Bryan to Creed to Backstreet Boys. The festival is set for the end of April, but now attendees can start planning their days, as organizers have shared the day-by-day set times.
Stagecoach 2025 Set Times For Friday, April 25
Highlights from the first day include Zach Bryan at 9:30 (all times p.m. and PT) on the T-Mobile Mane Stage, T-Pain at 11:10 on the Palomino Stage, Lana Del Rey at 8:10 on the Palomino Stage, and Diplo at 6 at Diplo’s Honkytonk.
Stagecoach 2025 Set Times For Saturday, April 26
Day 2 features Jelly Roll at 9:30 on the T-Mobile Mane Stage, Sturgill Simpson at 8 on the T-Mobile Mane Stage, Creed at 11:10 on the Palomino Stage, Nelly at 7:20 on the Palomino Stage, and Shaboozey at 5:30 on the T-Mobile Mane Stage.
Stagecoach 2025 Set Times For Sunday, April 27
Closing out the final day are Luke Combs at 9:30 on the T-Mobile Mane Stage, Backstreet Boys at 11:10 on the Palomino Stage, and DJ Pee .Wee (Anderson .Paak) at Diplo’s Honkytonk.
Find the full set times below.
Stagecoach 2025 Set Times
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Stagecoach 2025 Lineup
30rack
49 Winchester
Abby Anderson
Abi Carter
Alana Springsteen
Alexandra Kay
Angel White
Anne Wilson
Annie Bosko
Ashley McBryde
Austin Snell
Avery Anna
Backstreet Boys
Blessing Offor
Brent Cobb
Brothers Osborne
Bryan Martin
Carly Pearce
Carter Faith
Chase Manhattan
Chayce Beckham
Chromeo (DJ set)
Colby Acuff
Conner Smith
Coral
Creed
Crystal Gayle
Dasha
Diplo
Diplo’s Honkytonk
DJ Pee .Wee (aka Anderson .Paak)
Drake Milligan
Dylan Gossett
Dylan Scott
Famous Dave
Flatland Cavalry
George Birge
Goo Goo Dolls
Honky Tonkin’ in Queens
Jelly Roll
John Morgan
Kashus Culpepper
Kermie J Rock
Kevin Bolt
Koe Wetzel
Lana Del Rey
Lanie Gardner
Lauren
Louie TheSinger
Luke Combs
Maddox Batson
Mae Estes
Midland
Myles Kennedy
Nelly (25 Years of Country Grammar)
Nikki Lane
Niko Moon
Noeline Hofmann
Paris Hilton
Rick
Sammy Hagar
Scotty McCreery
Shaboozey
Shaddix
Sidepiece
Sierra Ferrell
Slim Mcgraw
Sofi Tukker
Sturgill Simpson
T-Pain
Tanner Usrey
The Bacon Brothers
The Castellows
The Wilder Blue
Tiera Kennedy
Tigerlily Gold
Tommy James & the Shondells
Tracy Lawrence
Treaty Oak Revival
Tucker Wetmore
Vavo
Vincent Mason
Waylon Wyatt
Whiskey Myers
Zach Bryan
Erykah Badu has a long history of challenging fans with both her music and her wardrobe, and at this past weekend’s Billboard Women In Music Ceremony, she did so yet again. The “On & On” singer, who recently announced that she’s working on her first album in 15 years with producer The Alchemist, donned an eye-popping knit bodysuit that sparked a BBL-related debate.
No, it wasn’t because it was particularly revealing (Badu already jumped that benchmark ages ago). Instead, the suit was designed to resemble a full-figured woman’s body, drawing comparisons to both enslaved 19th-century Khoisan performer Sarah Baartman and the ongoing Brazilian butt-lift trend in hip-hop. Badu herself fueled speculation about the ensemble’s intent by studiously avoiding explanations online, instead captioning an Instagram post debuting the suit, “A lil Hippy. Rise of the dark divine feminine. – a short film by E. Badu.” She also noted that it was designed by Texan designer Myah Hasbany, who was described as using their creativity to “to convey necessary messages about body and gender dysmorphia and how to overcome them with confidence and acceptance.”
Last summer Taco Bell dropped the Cheesy Street Chalupa and we liked it so much that we called it “essential.” And, of course, like Taco Bell often does with its best dishes, they took it off the menu (see the brand’s delicious but frustrating Nacho Fries and discontinued than revived Mexican Pizza). We’ll never understand why Taco Bell does this so often, but hey, we’re not in the fast food business, we’re in the fast food eating business!
Maybe there is genius to the strategy, to us, it’s just frustrating.
Which is why when Taco Bell revealed its new Toasted Cheddar Street Chalupa, we didn’t know how to feel. On the one hand, we like the Cheesy Street Chalupa, but on the other, changing the recipe runs the risk of reintroducing an inferior dish, and forever dooming any chance we get the OG back. Well, we’re happy to report that the new Toasted Cheddar Street Chalupa took a delicious dish and made it significantly better.
So far, 2025 is proving to be a good year for Taco Bell fans. Here are our full thoughts on the new dish.
Toasted Cheddar Street Chalupa
Dane Rivera
Thoughts & Tasting Notes:
The Toasted Cheddar Street Chalupa differs from last summer’s Cheesy Street Chalupa in a few key ways. Gone is the double-layer flatbread, instead replaced with a single layer that has been encrusted with grilled cheddar cheese. This swap is a marked improvement that adds considerably more crunch to the dish. A single layer helps the overall flavor come across as more focused and allows the inner ingredients to cut through the dish better. While we miss the layer of melted mozzarella and pepper jack, the cheddar adds a lot more zest and tang to the dish, which helps to elevate the base flavor.
Inside the chalupa is your choice of Taco Bell’s Cantina Slow Roasted Chicken or Steak (we suggest the chicken, it’s tender with a zesty and herbaceous flavor), a serving of bright and tangy chile-lime cream sauce (instead of the OG’s jalapeño ranch sauce, again, an improvement), and fresh cilantro and onion. Biting into the chalupa treats your taste buds to a symphony of shifting salty, sweet, herbaceous, and zesty flavors with a very, very mildly spicy finish.
The only thing that could improve on this already delicious dish is more spice. Getting heat at Taco Bell is always a challenge, for true spiceheads, the brand just isn’t hot enough. We’re not sure it ever will be, but hey, we didn’t see the Cheesy Street Chalupa coming either, so maybe Taco Bell still has a few tricks up its sleeve.
The Bottom Line:
We really love the way this dish balances a cheesy crunch with a medley of indulgent savory flavors. The Toasted Cheddar Street Chalupa is a future classic if Taco Bell just lets it stay on the menu. It ranks among the very best from the brand, every bit as good as the Mexican Pizza and Crunchwrap Supreme.
Just a few days ago, Billie Eilish named Sufjan Stevens’Carrie & Lowell her best album to cry to. Well, the 2015 project turns a decade old this year, and if you’d like to join Eilish in squeezing out a few tears, Asthmatic Kitty just announced a 2LP anniversary edition of the album.
Included most notably are seven previously unreleased bonus tracks, which are demos and alternate versions. Ahead of the reissue’s release on May 30, Stevens has shared a demo of “Mystery Of Love,” which was recorded during the Carrie & Lowell sessions but ended up being used in the movie Call Me By Your Name.
Also included are a 40-page art book and a new essay from Stevens. In the booklet, per a press release, are “various collages of vintage family photos spanning four generations interfused with artwork and drawings (on themes of death, dying, grief and the state of Oregon) as well as landscape photos Sufjan took while traveling across the western US over a decade ago.”
Listen to the “Mystery Of Love” demo above and find the Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition) cover art and tracklist below.
Disc 1
1. “Death With Dignity”
2. “Should Have Known Better”
3. “All Of Me Wants All Of You”
4. “Drawn To The Blood”
5. “Eugene”
6. “Fourth Of July”
7. “The Only Thing”
8. “Carrie & Lowell”
9. “John My Beloved”
10. “No Shade In The Shadow Of The Cross”
11. “Blue Bucket Of Gold”
Disc 2”
1. “Death With Dignity (Demo)”
2. “Should Have Known Better (Demo)”
3. “Eugene (Demo)”
4. “The Only Thing (Demo)”
5. “Mystery Of Love (Demo)”
6. “Wallowa Lake Monster (Version 2)”
7. “Fourth Of July (Version 4)”
Located in downtown Louisville, Rabbit Hole Distillery, which opened in 2018, is finally hitting its groove. It owes its success to the contracted distillate it started with, key partnerships, and the tireless work of its Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame founder, Kaveh Zamanian.
With nearly 3,000 whiskey distilleries in America, up from roughly 150 just 15 years ago, it’s more important than ever to have an edge to help your brand stand out from the pack. Kaveh’s unique background motivated him to highlight other inspiring, seldom-heard stories in the whiskey industry.
Kaveh Zamanian is an Iranian immigrant who earned his Ph.D. here in America before falling in love with his wife, a native Kentuckian who introduced him to the bourbon industry. There, he fell in love yet again—this time with the spirit’s tradition and production process. In his words, “Bourbon is what we like to call 51% corn, 49% possibility.”
Speaking to the “possibility” component, we have to talk about one of the key partnerships Kaveh most recently forged. Last year at the Sundance Film Festival, a chance meeting with Insecure breakout star Jay Ellis birthed an intriguing question: what if they could align their respective appreciation for creative spirits in a way that united the world of film and whiskey? Thus, the Creative Spirits Challenge was born.
“One of the barriers for a lot of people is (a lack of) equipment,” Ellis intimated in an exclusive interview with UPROXX, “so Kaveh and his team put together this idea of providing cameras to emerging filmmakers so that everyone can tell us their story.” For aspiring creatives, it’s an opportunity that could change their lives in the same way that Kaveh’s daring has changed the face of the whiskey industry.
As part of the partnership, Ellis also collaborated with Kaveh and the Rabbit Hole team to create a limited-edition whiskey that will be available in stores this spring. The full details of the release have not yet been announced, but it will feature custom artwork, and a portion of the proceeds from the bottle will go towards further supporting young filmmakers looking to develop their first project. The challenge is on.
While we await our first taste of that new release here at UPROXX, we thought it would be a perfect time to put Rabbit Hole’s core lineup to our challenge.
I tasted through Rabbit Hole’s “core four” expressions and ranked them in order of deliciousness. Let’s dive in and find out which Rabbit Hole whiskey you should get your hands on ahead of the release of their liquid collaboration with Jay Ellis!
Cavehill from Rabbit Hole is technically a four-grain bourbon made from a mash bill of 70% corn, 10% malted wheat, 10% malted barley, and 10% honey malted barley. The brand’s entry-level offering uses liquid matured for at least 3 years, produced in small batches of no more than 15 barrels.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: The nosing notes are grain forward, with floral notes balancing out the aromas of corn husk, black pepper, and white sugar. It has a generally light and slightly youthful nose that beckons an initial sip courtesy of that sweet approachability.
Palate: That grain-forward nose perfectly sets the stage for the sipping experience with this whiskey, as notes of corn husk, sweet butterscotch, green apples, and peaches form the base of the flavor profile on this one. The mouthfeel is a tad bit restrained, but it’s a very balanced, borderline refreshing sip.
Finish: The finish on Cavehill is short-to-medium, which helps support its generally refreshing impression.
Bottom Line:
This is a great introduction to the Rabbit Hole portfolio. It’s a crowd-pleaser that casts enough intrigue to raise the eyebrows of enthusiasts, while newcomers to the world of whiskey will instantly fall in love with its sweet, approachable flavor profile.
Rabbit Hole Heigold treads a slightly different path than Cavehill thanks to its mash bill of 70% corn, 25% rye, and 5% malted barley. That high rye grain recipe gives it an added depth and some extra spice notes for an end result that is similarly aged at least 3 years and made in batches of 15 barrels or less.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: This bourbon opens with nosing notes of butterscotch, stewed apples, and maple syrup. Star anise comes sweeping in on a second pass of the glass, with earthy cinnamon bark notes further fleshing out the aroma base.
Palate: Once on the palate, the flavors of smoked honey, mellow rye spice, and star anise grace the tip of the tongue and slowly unfold towards the middle of the palate. Once at mid-palate, more notes of red apples and a nice dash of black pepper round things out. The mouthfeel on this one is denser than Cavehill, which helps it support those additional baking spice notes.
Finish: This one has a medium-to-long finish where the apple notes play an important role along with that sweet honey flavor, which combines with a touch of cornbread, sage smudge, and white pepper.
Bottom Line:
While Cavehill is Rabbit Hole’s crowd-pleaser, Heigold is a slightly more serious expression with multiple layers of flavor and some intriguing spice notes that will make you want to savor each sip. If taking your time with a whiskey and teasing out all of the flavors is your type of experience, then Heigold is the bottle for you.
While whiskey fans are certainly familiar with the 95/5 rye recipe made famous by Indiana’s MGP (95% rye, 5% malted barley), Rabbit Hole Boxergrail Rye features a take on the grain recipe produced in Kentucky. Like its two predecessors, this whiskey is made in small batches using distillate that is aged for at least 3 years.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Green apples, spearmint, and black tea stand out immediately on the nose of this whiskey. Despite clocking in at the same ABV as Cavehill and Heigold, Boxergrail comes across as a bit higher-proofed, which is likely due to its more robust black peppercorn notes.
Palate: On the palate, this whiskey is at once familiar (thanks to its 95/5 grain recipe) but also offers a bit more edge than its Indiana counterparts at this age. The mouthfeel is robust to start, with the flavors of green candy apples, allspice, and black pepper doing the heavy lifting before it demures at midpalate.
Finish: Despite losing steam at midpalate, this whiskey perks up texturally on the medium-length finish where freshly cracked black pepper notes join green apples, barrel char, lavender honey, and thyme.
Bottom Line:
While the drinking experience with Rabbit Hole’s Boxergrail Rye is roughly on par with that of Heigold, it offers additional insight into the differences between Indiana’s and Kentucky’s takes on the 95/5 rye recipe. With a slightly sterner backbone thanks to a more assertive infusion of black pepper spice, this is a precocious young rye that serves well as either a neat sipper or a cocktail base.
For the final expression in the Rabbit Hole core four, we have Derringer, which utilizes its own unique mash bill of 68% corn, 18% wheat, and 14% malted barley. That whiskey is then finished in Pedro Ximenez Sherry Casks from Spain’s Casknolia Cooperage. Finally, the whiskey is bottled without chill-filtration to preserve all of the flavors that the secondary maturation cask imparts.
Tasting Notes:
Nose: Fruit cake notes come leaping out of the glass with this whiskey as the aroma of mulled wine melds with stewed red berries, cinnamon bark, dark chocolate, and shelled walnuts.
Palate: On the palate, Dareringer springs to life as all of its nosing notes dance on the palate in a slightly riper form. The stewed red berries come across more so as red berry preserves, while the walnuts lose their shell, the cinnamon has become dust, and the dark chocolate gets slightly sweeter and tastes more like milk chocolate.
Finish: This whiskey is the sweetest overall, underlined by its sweet short-to-medium-length finish, which is loaded with red raisins, a faint amaretto note, moderate oak tones, and freshly cracked black pepper.
Bottom Line:
Dareringer, the priciest of Rabbit Hole’s core four, is worth every penny as it delivers a delightful sweetness coupled with assertive baking spice notes that all enhance, rather than distract from, the base whiskey. While this is the most challenging whiskey of the bunch on the palate, offering an array of well-integrated flavors, it’s also the most rewarding for the very same reason.
Final Thoughts
Despite its youth, Rabbit Hole is delivering some delicious whiskeys throughout its core lineup. By developing an appreciation for younger whiskey, discerning drinkers will find a whole new world opening in front of their eyes. While Cavehill was a tad bland, the Heigold expression kicks things up several notches before the surprisingly multifaceted rye and the magnificent Dareringer offering steal the show.
Simply put, if you aren’t already enjoying younger American whiskeys, then Rabbit Hole is an ideal jumping-off point.
To enter the Creative Spirits Challenge, aspiring filmmakers simply need to submit a video sharing their story and make a case for why they deserve to win. The grand prize winner will receive a professional-grade Canon camera and a one-on-one mentoring session with Jay Ellis, an invaluable opportunity to learn from an award-winning actor with over 20 years of experience in Hollywood. Three runners-up will also receive professional-grade Canon cameras to assist in bringing their creative visions to life.
Interested participants must be 21+ and the brand is accepting submissions until 3/31/2025.
Anybody who thought the vinyl resurgence was just a fad was mistaken: The industry has experienced a legitimate revival. As a result, music fans are interested in physical media in ways they may not have if the decades-old medium hasn’t made a comeback. That doesn’t mean everybody is listening to just their parents’ old music, though. That’s part of it, sure, thanks to rereleases that present classic albums in new ways. A vital part of the renewed vinyl wave, though, is new projects being released as records, of which there are plenty.
Whatever you might be into, each month brings a new slew of vinyl releases that has something for everybody. Some stand out above the rest, naturally, so check out some of our favorite vinyl releases of March below.
Wings — Venus And Mars (50th Anniversary Edition)
MPL/UMe
Paul McCartney made the most of life after The Beatles with Wings, and the band was really hitting its stride by the time they released 1975’s Venus And Mars. The album turns 50 years old this year, so there’s a new vinyl edition that was cut at half speed using a high-resolution transfer of the original master tapes, meaning it sounds terrific.
Black Sabbath is coming to an end, but we’ll always have the music. Paranoid is one of the band’s defining releases, of course, and now it sounds better than ever on a new Rhino High Fidelity reissue.
Alice Cooper also just got the Rhino Hi-Fi treatment with a rerelease of Love It To Death. The album, the band’s third, was a critical one for them, as it was their big breakout after a pair of albums that underwhelmed commercially.
Ariana Grande — Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead
Republic Records
Even with Ariana Grande being primarily in Wicked mode at the moment, she’s still been delivering new music at a solid clip. The deluxe edition of Eternal Sunshine dropped last week, as did a short film and, of course, new vinyl.
Eli Roth’s Red Light Disco: Dancefloor Seductions From Italian Sexploitation Cinema
CAM Sugar/UMe
Director Eli Roth has a passion for Italian “sexploitation” movies from the ’70s and ’80s, and that applies to the films’ songs that often aren’t available outside of the movies themselves. Well, Roth went ahead, rounded up a bunch of his favorites, and honored the era with a carefully considered new compilation.
Fleetwood Mac had a legendary run in the ’70s and ’80s, highlighted by Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, Tusk, Mirage, and Tango In The Night. Those iconic projects have now all been collected in a box set, that also comes with a clear 12-inch of “Silver Springs” and “Go Your Own Way,” and that’s limited to just 1,000 copies. If you’re missing any of these classics in your collection, this is an ideal way to finish off that period from one of music’s greatest bands.
Never before has Kraftwerk officially released a picture disc vinyl. Now, though, in celebration of a half-century of Autobahn, it’s gotten a lovely blue picture disc reissue, and the minimal original artwork is a great fit for this format.
It’s also been 50 years since one of Bowie’s biggest classics, Young Americans. You can choose your flavor with this reissue, as there’s a picture disc version, as well as a half-speed mastered LP edition.
Motown has been on a tear with reissues over the past year or so, busting out a few exemplary releases from the archives monthly. As the title suggests, it’s more psychedelic than most Motown releases, making it a fascinating outlier in the label’s history.
Sun Ra — Space Is The Place (Vinyl Me, Please Reissue)
Vinyl Me, Please
In case you missed it, Vinyl Me, Please recently moved away from their Records Of The Month format. That’s not necessarily bad news, though, as they continue to frequently release snazzy new reissues, one of the latest of which being this Sun Ra favorite.
Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.
This week saw Ariana Grande expand Eternal Sunshine and Little Simz forging ahead with more artistic hip-hop. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.
Ariana Grande adds a heaping handful of songs to her latest album with the Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead deluxe edition (not to mention the short film). Among the highlights from the fresh batch is the soaring “Twilight Zone.”
Lucy Dacus and Hozier — “Bullseye”
The breakout success of Boygenius is a tough act to follow, and that’s just what Lucy Dacus was tasked with on her new album, Forever Is A Feeling. She mostly goes about the project alone, but she did get a boost from Hozier on the soothing “Bullseye.”
Nav — “Pain Away”
It’s been nearly a year since Nav announcedOn My Way 2 Rexdale, an eternity in modern music industry terms. But, at long last, the project is finally here, led by tracks like the vulnerable “Pain Away.”
Perfume Genius — “Clean Heart”
Perfume Genius (who recently told Uproxx the stories behind all of his album covers) his a new LP under his belt, Glory. Among the highlights is “Clean Heart,” which is subtle and understated, but also lush and lovely if you pay attention.
Kali Uchis — “Sunshine & Rain…”
Uchis just released one of 2024’s best albums last year, but she’s already following Orquídeas with a new LP, Sincerely. This one arrives in May and she previewed it last week with the smooth and serene “Sunshine & Rain…”
d4vd — “What Are You Waiting For?”
Ahead of his April album Withered, d4vd has offered an advance look at the project with the lively and pleading “What Are You Waiting For?.” (Also, credit where it’s due: “Fortnite montage” is definitely a new way to officially share a new song.)
Lil Durk — “1000 Times” Feat. Lil Baby
Durk’s new album Deep Thoughts is out now and it boasts features from Future, Hunxho, and Jhené Aiko. Most notably, though, the project sees him reunite with Voice Of The Heroes collaborator Lil Baby on the autobiographical “1000 Times.”
Little Simz — “Free”
UK hip-hop auteur Little Simz considers the different meanings of love on a new single from her upcoming album Lotus, “Free“: “I think that love is forgiving yourself / I think that love is offering your immediate help / I think that love is everything that we need in this world / I think the key is being honest and being yourself.”
Ari Lennox — “Soft Girl Era”
Happy belated birthday, Ari Lennox! Her big day was last week, and she celebrated by dropping “Soft Girl Era,” a bouncy, confident, and instantly catchy number.
Rico Nasty — “On The Low”
More than just about anybody in music, Rico Nasty is always in her own lane, whatever that lane may be. Rico’s currently signed to Fueled By Ramen, a label best known for pop-punk and alternative rock, and her latest single “On The Low” is a melding of electronic and trap influences.
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