The Wellington - Fading Out

Semipop LifeFollow “Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet: Wailers Sadly not reggae, just Joe McPhee switching to tenor for some hot…” on Jul 5th →

Mara Calder - Saints Don't Tip

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Semipop LifeFollow “Mara Calder: “Saints Don’t Tip” Fiona Apple meets Tom Waits is too easy, so I’ll save that for the album…” on Jun 28th →

Shaking Hell - Oh Great, Hassle!

Semipop LifeFollow “The Cucumbers: As You Heard Me Songs purportedly by fictional country songwriter Daisy Steinberg, and if you listen to plenty…” on Jun 7th →

Lice (Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman) - The Burgers

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Semipop LifeFollow “Naaz: “Something Good” Dutch kid of Kurdish refugees shows off her influences without, like, literally calling a song “The Cure”…” on May 24th →

Buck 65 - The Buggedest

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Semipop LifeFollow “Azuka Moweta and His Anioma Brothers Band of Africa: Kenechukwu An improvement on the excellent Nwanne Bu Ife and the…” on May 17th →

Abdallah Oumbadougou - 3. Iwouksane

Semipop LifeFollow “Abdallah Oumbadougou: Amghar: The Godfather of Tuareg Music, Vol. 1 The subtitle’s a bold claim, but Oumbadougou (c. 1962–2020) and…” on May 3rd →

P.E.A. Shangaan Guitar Player - Machanjawa (Mozambique)

Semipop LifeFollow “Fuerza Regida: 111xpantia They haven’t grown up (much.) Weed burns, violence is alluded to rather than executed, the lonesome void…” on Apr 19th →

Mavis Staples - Satisfied Mind

Semipop LifeFollow “Mavis Staples: Sad and Beautiful World It is, and she would know (“Satisfied Mind”, “Chicago”, “We Got to Have Peace”)…” on Mar 8th →

Yalla Miku - Alemuye ኣለሙየ

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Semipop LifeFollow “Marlon Williams: “Aua Atu Rā” The 2025 winner of New Zealand’s top songwriting award plays with the history of Māori…” on Mar 1st →

13eats - A MixTaype

Semipop LifeFollow “Avenida Paulista, da Consolação ao Paraíso You’d have to know much more about Brazil and its music than I do…” on Feb 8th →