You know that feeling when your alarm goes off on a Tuesday, your bank account is looking rough, and you just want to throw your phone out the window? That specific brand of modern exhaustion needs a soundtrack. Enter "Life Lessons", the loud and loose sophomore album from East London's Disco Lizards. Instead of complaining about the state of things, they have decided to crank the...

The fiercely independent, Idaho-raised rapper nick! channels a deeply overstimulated, restless frequency on his new EP, "GEEKED!". Born in 2006 and building a fervent following entirely without industry co-signs, he occupies an interesting lane in new-wave underground hip-hop. His music sounds precisely like the brain chemistry of an internet-raised creative processing the blinding speed of newfound success. He writes and produces melodic, hard-hitting rap...