NEW MUSIC
SUMMER LOADING…..
‘Sincerely’
by GG | May 14, 2025
Last week Kali Uchis dropped her fifth album, ‘Sincerely’, a sonic dream-boat immersing the listener in the warm tones of an L.A. sunset. Her single “Sunshine & Rain” feels like the outro to her previous hit “After The Storm”. Melancholic and moody, ‘Sincerely’ bridges elements of psychedelic rock with soulful harmonies. Front to back this album is full of
feel-good. Lyrically songs like, “ILYSM” and “Angels All Around Me” are reflective and dedicated poems to her partner, newborn baby and her late mother. Kali proves again to be timeless with this easy-listen full of lullabies and serenades.
She’s just announced her first headlining arena tour, The Sincerely, Tour, supported by
San Diego’s finest, Thee Sacred Souls. The tour is set to begin end of summer, Thursday, August 14 through Thursday, September 25.
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‘Fancy That’
by GG | May 1, 2025
PinkPantheress is set to drop her new mixtape, ‘Fancy That’ on May 9, and the anticipation is real. She’s already teased us with two singles that feel like sonic postcards from the new millennium.
Her first release “Tonight” is tailor-made for the dance floor—upbeat, vibrant, and pulsing with hyper-pop energy. She channels her UK roots while offering a cheeky nod to Bridgerton in the music video. Her latest track, “Stateside,” slows things down with a smooth, breakbeat. From the very first listen, I couldn’t help but think of Estelle’s across-the-pond iconic hit “American Boy”—it has that same effortlessly cool, sing-along quality. Grown and sexy, the song is pure 2000s nostalgia. I even caught what sounded like a playful interpolation of Junior Senior’s “Move Your Feet” 15-seconds in. With just these two tracks, ‘Fancy That’ is already shaping up to be a evocative joyride. Should I do a remix? Because honestly, I’m tempted.
JUST RELEASED
‘Never Enough’
by GG | May 1, 2025
Turnstile is gearing up for a heavy handed release of their newest album ‘Never Enough’ on June 6. The first single of the same title, “Never Enough”, delivers an ethereal and soothing introduction to summer. The stunning visuals of the video channel an energy of renewal and change, embracing the themes of every season and their polarizing temperament’s. The song concludes with in an insatiable glimpse of what remains for the tracks to follow. Turnstile’s latest release is a duo-track of “Seein’ Stars and “Birds”. This pairing so eloquently shifts the listener from an 80’s pop fever dream to an electrifying head banging dance break. The transition between these two tracks had me replaying them back to back. I am stoked for this album and truly see it breaking the seams of the rock-genre as it stands.
ANTICIPATED
NEW RELEASES
‘FROM FLORIDA’S FINEST’
The anticipated debut album from Florida native SAILORR has landed. Following her viral record ‘Pookie’s Requiem’, the proud Vietnamese artist has been on an rapid rise. Delivering successive hit singles in the last few months was a clear sign she’s sat on a vault of gems, and now they’re here – packaged as the aptly titled, ‘FROM FLORIDA’S FINEST’.
SAILORR
Naomi Sharon releases her latest EP ‘The Only Love We Know’. She tugs at heart strings with ease, capturing sensuality while hardly delving into lust. Not only finding love in another, but in ones self as well. “Bittersweet,” through perhaps her most delicate and fragile vocal arrangements, a bit reminiscent of Bollywood flair, opens the EP with a fervor.
NAOMI SHARON
‘THE ONLY LOVE WE KNOW
‘7 PIANO SKETCHES’
This all could have turned out to be just a phase, a sojourn into process-over-product abstraction before André returned to the vibrant lyrical murals that defined a generation. But as the lengthy, surprisingly rewarding New Blue Sun tour showed, he made a real commitment to instrumental, improvisational music, approached with a determinedly amateur spirit. That commitment is even clearer on ‘7 Piano Sketches’. New Blue Sun was, after all, a studio creation, honed with the help of a crew of skilled collaborators.
ANDRE 3000
‘RIDIN’
For Cuco, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Hawthorne by way of Inglewood in L.A. county, this kind of environment shaped him. With his third studio album ‘Ridin’, out Friday (May 9) — his “love letter to L.A.” and Chicano car culture — the artist reimagines oldies music through a modern lens, blending analog and harmonic richness to bridge generations while honoring his roots.
CUCO
NEW RELEASES
‘LOVE ON DIGITAL’
After amassing a handful of hypnotic EPs and mixtapes under his belt, DESTIN CONRAD has lifted the veil on his first-ever studio album, entitled
‘LOVE ON DIGITAL’. Smooth, sleek and sexy, the 15-track project establishes CONRAD as one to watch in the R&B space, and comes further elevated with contributions from Lil Nas X, Kehlani, Cari, Teezo Touchdown and serpentwithfeet.
DESTIN CONRAD
It’s hard to believe that Coco Jones is just now making her official longform debut. The rapidly rising R&B songstress has tapped in with a handful of industry-wide heavyweights, ranging from Ferg and Brent Faiyaz to Latto and Reneé Rapp, and has, at last, lifted the veil on her first-ever studio album, an ethereal delivery entitled ‘Why Not More?’ only further elevated with features from Future, London On Da Trak and YG Marley.
COCO JONES
‘WHY NOT MORE?’
‘WHEN’
ALEX ISLEY
‘WITH A VENGEANCE’
Buzzing with the high-speed energy that is SHERELLE'S signature, ‘With A Vengeance’ is described in a press statement as "a rally cry for the 160 scene, designed to push the tempo in new, exciting and as yet undiscovered directions". It was written as a cathartic response to negative feelings of anger and betrayal, which the UK producer turned into a collection of "hard and fast club tracks".
SHERELLE
‘IF NOT NOW, WHEN?’
Joe Kay doesn’t just DJ—he curates worlds. For over a decade, the co-founder and head of Soulection has helped shape a global movement rooted in discovery, intention and community. What started as a radio show has grown into a cultural institution, where genre-fluid sounds and emotionally rich storytelling come together to connect people across borders. And now, after 14 years of championing other artists, Joe Kay is stepping into the spotlight with his first official EP, ‘If Not Now, Then When’.
JOE KAY
‘FOR YOU’
GG: I’ll be seeing miss Yukimi in concert Sunday, May 4 at The Fonda Theatre. Door open art 7p.
TICKETS
Yukimi Nagano closes her solo debut ‘For You’ with a recording of her father crying. Just moments earlier, he was reflecting on the impermanence of life—until the emotion takes over. It’s a fitting ending to an album that begins with the line in ‘Prelude For You’: “When you write from a place that feels deeply personal, it all becomes very human”. Humanity is the heart of the album. The Little Dragon singer explores shared emotional ground—tender, vulnerable, deeply personal.
YUKIMI
‘TIMBO PROGRESSION’
Timbaland is back with a new album, but it's not what many may have expected. This weekend, the legendary Virginia Beach, Virginia native is back with a 10-song set of Afrobeats instrumentals on a project called ‘TIMBO PROGRESSION’. There are uncredited vocalists on the tracks, but this tape mostly focuses on the beat making side of things. Rhythm, grooves, (presumably) native instruments, specifically percussive ones, are what Timbo wants every listener to zone in on.
TIMBALAND
‘JUPITER’
Literal space became one of her primary lyrical devices on that album, dilating her tales of romance and heartbreak into cosmic epics about the pleasures of proximity and the pains of distance. She returns to that stargazing mode on ‘Jupiter’, which she’s called the “sister album” to Saturn. But the writing and performances lack the luster of her previous work, and are sometimes noticeably derivative and muddled. Where her past records confidently navigated the many strains of past and present R&B that inform her style, Jupiter is adrift.
NAO