With the staggering volume of music that’s being released every month, it’s next to impossible for any one person to keep up with it all. I guarantee that there was at least one release this summer that you haven’t heard but would’ve loved. We sat the CentralSauce Collective down to focus in on 5 excellent […]
June Spotlight: Caleb Giles’ Under the Shade
Our Essential & Unheard project for July is Caleb Giles’ third solo album, Under the Shade. It is imbued with the energy of summer—a stand-in for the season where white t-shirts become the de facto wardrobe choice, black jeans are only worn by the brave, and the heat sauntering off walls and emanating up out of asphalt is the most immediate feeling. The sun is the antagonist, the album’s name reflecting the peace found in separation from that oppressive heat that hangs longer and heavier in the summer months.
May Spotlight: Damon Locks’ Where Future Unfolds
Check out our 20 “Essential & Unheard” tracks of May, and read on for our featured E&U project of the month from Damon Locks and the Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble.
April Spotlight: Pivot Gang’s You Can’t Sit With Us
Check out our 20 “Essential & Unheard” tracks from April, and read on for a spotlight on our stand-out artist of the month: PIVOT GANG.
March Spotlight: Little Simz’s Grey Area
GREY Area is an artist mostly finding her way through something not quite palpable, but still omnipresent. She raps painfully aware of the indefinable future, and the confusion of your mid-20s, but she does so in a way that casts brighter shades of color than any rapper this year has been able to evoke.
February Spotlight: Syrup from B. Cool-Aid
Check out our 20 “Essential & Unheard” tracks from February, and keep reading for a spotlight on our stand-out artists of the month: Awhlee and Pink Siifu, otherwise known as B. Cool Aid.
January Spotlight: Fly Anakin and Tuamie’s “Emergency Raps 4”
Check out our 20 “Essential & Unheard” tracks of January, and read on for a spotlight on our stand-out artists of the month: Fly Anakin and Tuamie.
December Spotlight: MIKE’s “War in my Pen”
Check out our 20 “Essential & Unheard” tracks of December, and read on for a spotlight on our stand-out artist of the month: MIKE.
November Spotlight: Joy Postell’s “Diaspora”
Check out our 20 “Essential & Unheard” tracks from November, and read on for a spotlight on our stand-out artist of the month: Baltimore native Joy Postell.
October Spotlight: Mick Jenkins’ “Pieces of a Man”
Check out our 20 “Essential & Unheard” songs of October, and read on for a spotlight on our stand-out artist of the month: Chicago’s own Mick Jenkins.
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