Isaiah Rashad Readies Return, Coachella Crunch Time Kicks In: Everything We Loved In Music This Week
All of the biggest music headlines in one place and playlist. Updated live throughout the week.
Isaiah Rashad Readies Return, Coachella Crunch Time Kicks In: Everything We Loved In Music This Week
All of the biggest music headlines in one place and playlist. Updated live throughout the week.
All of the biggest music headlines in one place and playlist. Updated live throughout the week.
It’s Official. It’s Been Awful.
Isaiah Rashad’s return record is en route. Confirmed. At first, at the top of the week, the rapper took to his Instagram stories to share an image of what appeared to be a new project entitled It’s Been Awful, stamped with a Top Dawg Entertainment authentication on the bottom. Later that same day, TDE’s Punch shared a post on X, reading “It’s been awful,” followed by the same posts from label signees Doechii, ScHoolboy Q, Devin Malik, and Zacari. Within the hour, posters were reportedly seen throughout New York City, and photos of new merch materialized on X. Come Tuesday morning, Rashad has officially revealed in a striking initial trailer that It’s Been Awful is, in fact, a studio album that’s due out in less than a month. What will land as his fourth longform project, Rashad’s return album – what a press release describes to be “a raw, fully realized return” – is slated to drop everywhere on Friday, May 1 as his first longform studio release since 2021’s acclaimed The House Is Burning. Full story here.
Two of Our Favorite Hypetrak Stars Linked Up: Ovrkast. x Niontay
Whenever two former Hypetrak featured artists get together, it’s a good day. And a damn near guarantee that the creative output will be top-tier. On Wednesday, two of our favorite budding big dogs in the New York City underground rap ether – Ovrkast. and Niontay – got together for their first-ever formal collaboration. Dubbed “Wata,” Kast first teased the punchy track on his Instagram last week before releasing the cut, accompanied by its clean, monochromatic visual, on streaming services this week.
The Coachella Set Times Dropped
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With Weekend 1 kicking off in just hours, the first sign of Coachella Crunch Time came at the beginning of the week, when the festival (finally) lifted the veil on the official set times for the first weekend.
…And So Did the Coachella Billboards
Set times are important and all, but the billboards are the real indicator that we’re reaching Indio’s biggest two-weekend stint of the year. All of our favorites here.
