SOUNDCHECK
With Tinashe, The Rose, and more.
Every week, we bring you SOUNDCHECK — your destination for the best new music that hit the web over the course of the week. Because you should always be prepared when someone passes you that AUX cord. This week’s roundup features 10 of our favorite emerging and established artists. Follow the playlist on Spotify.
WAP is out; BONGOS is in.
Don’t get us wrong — we love a big ballad from OR. But there’s just something about her blasé shit-talking over sticky guitar riffs that makes us think this is her signature sound.
This heady atmospheric cut from Tinashe sounds like when the smoke machine fogs out the club and your body’s just moving off memory.
South Korean band The Rose is like if One Direction made wide-eyed indie rock songs. This is a great thing.
The rap girls in Memphis are all BFFs and making concrete-hard tracks with each other.
What sets d4vd’s emo-rock apart is the genuine feeling of torment you can hear in his howls.
Press play for a brief, mental vacation to a crystal blue beach.
“I feel bad for my dog/ he probably wonders why I cry,” sings Kate Teague, a musician who writes like early Soccer Mommy with some country twang.
This is Berlinite Uche Yara’s first-ever song release, and it’s a wonder: a yelping, full-throttle punk-rock-R&B bricolage.
The music of Georgian singer Creams aligns more with performative poetry delivered over unnerving droning synthscapes.