Don Rello is not trying to scroll past the hard part. On "I Don’t Watch TV III", he puts fatherhood, grief and personal strain inside a seven-track Hip-Hop/Rap release. Released through RAPREC, the explicit album runs for 24 minutes and 41 seconds. Don Rello calls this his sharpest and cleanest work. For anyone meeting Don Rello here, "I Don’t Watch TV III" is the third entry...

Martin Yates’s new single, “Now or Never”, doesn’t ask for your time; it issues a three-minute summons. This is the sound of someone pushing their chair back from the table, the scrape of the legs on the floor echoing a decision that’s been brewing for years. Channeling the wounded pride of 1960s soul legends, Yates builds a monument to the moment the heart finally...