DIIV just released their terrific fourth album Frog in Boiling Water (read our review) which pulls influence from all manner of early-’90s alt-rock and lands right as the current shoegaze revival is ...

I don’t need to get into all the reasons why 2020 was a bad year, but it was an extremely good year for rap. We got great records from all across the board, from exciting new spins on ’90s boom bap to ...

Writer, author and illustrator Riley Wallace is giving producers their well-deserved flowers in his newest book, From Boom Bap to Trap. “2021 has been a brutal year for Hip Hop losses; moreover, it’s ...

Anderson Paak offers a mission statement early on his Malibu album, which hit shelves last Friday: “I bring you greetings from the first church of boom bap-tists.” Boom bap, a head-nodding subgenre of ...

Logic is consumed by his love for nostalgia and YSIV is his personal and myopic monument to a bygone era. Across 14 tracks, the Maryland rapper is obsessed with the idea of "boom-bap”—a phrase he uses ...

Sometimes the best way to do things is to do it yourself. This is the realization that KRS, the general of the Boogie Down Productions crew, came to when he dropped Return Of The Boom Bap. It was his ...

The wildly creative Florida singer and rapper Doechii signed with Top Dawg Entertainment a few years ago, and she scored a hit last year with the Trillville-interpolating Kodak Black collab “What It ...

A$AP Ferg teamed up with famed producer DJ Premier – whose productions buoyed classic albums from Gang Starr, Notorious B.I.G. and Jay-Z, among others – for ...

Singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun went to Nashville on a songwriting trip more than four years ago and she immediately took to it, moving in and carving out a space in Music City. She says it feels as ...

Doechii, known as the "Swamp Princess," arrived at NPR HQ radiating confidence. She moved with purpose, knowing exactly what she wanted and how to achieve it. Her declarative statement, "I'm ...