This post was updated Sept. 6 at 8:41 p.m. “Certified Lover Boy” is a certified dumpster fire. Drake, the tenured Toronto rapper and global superstar, followed up his lengthy 2018 double album “Scorpion” with a 21-track, 86-minute effort that possesses similar traits as its predecessor – a bloated, uninspiring body of work that lacks the creative spark or focus of his early career records. Read more...
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BabyJake isn’t growing up just yet. With his debut album “The Sun Wakes Up Earlier Now” scheduled to drop Friday, the rising artist said the record is a hodgepodge of everything from country twang to house grooves. Read more...
Photo: Rising artist Jake Herring, better known as BabyJake, talked to the Daily Bruin about his debut album “The Sun Wakes Up Earlier Now.” (Courtesy of Paris Mumpower)
Never one to shy away from his Christian faith, Kanye West dropped his latest album on a Sunday. The 27-track, nearly two-hour album dedicated to his late mother comes after a hectic year-plus rollout, and “Donda” is quite clearly the furthest from a concise effort for the virtuoso producer and wordsmith. Read more...
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It’s Halsey’s world and everyone else is just living in it. In their fourth album, “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power,” Halsey navigates the journey of childbirth in a world of royalty, tragedy and witchcraft. Read more...
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This post was updated Aug. 22 at 7:04 p.m. The Lorde has risen. More than four years after the release of “Melodrama,” the eloquent artist’s long-awaited third album has arrived. Read more...
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This post was updated Aug. 15 at 5:39 p.m. Still Woozy is wide awake. The genre-melding artist, known offstage as Sven Gamsky, dropped his debut album, “If This Isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What Is,” on Friday. Read more...
Photo: Genre-blending artist Sven Gamsky, known as Still Woozy, dropped his debut album “If This Isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What Is” on Friday. The release marks a mature songwriting evolution with multiple musical influences, he said. (Courtesy of Vince Aung)
This post was updated Aug. 15 at 5:34 p.m. Jenny Nuo is turning over a new leaf with a STEM-inspired EP. First-year linguistics and computer science student Jenny Wang, also known as Jenny Nuo, released her EP “bound by expectations,” on which she combines her love of computer science and music. Read more...
Photo: First-year linguistics and computer science student Jenny Wang, under stage name Jenny Nuo, has garnered a following of more than 57,000 thousand followers on TikTok for her musical content that combines songwriting and STEM. (Photo by Sakshi Joglekar/Photo Illustration by Isabella Lee)
