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The 25 Best Songs of 2011
(So Far)

I’m the first to admit I get unreasonably excited about music. I approach my job like the prospectors of old, and each new nugget I come across feels like striking gold. To carry that metaphor way too far, 2011 feels a lot like 1849—there’s been so much good music already in this first quarter. Here are 25 songs that make me dance like Yosemite Sam. (I told you I was going to take that metaphor too far.)...  read more

This Week's New Album Releases (1/11/11)

Eight album releases caught our attention on Jan. 11, 2011, from folk to hip-hop to whatever you call Cake....  read more

Seven Promising Rappers Without Albums

In November, after about 65 years of delays, the ballyhooed Washington, D.C. rapper Wale finally got around to releasing an album....  read more

Best of What's Next 2009: Rye Rye [Musician]

Hometown: BaltimoreAlbum: Title TBDFor Fans Of: M.I.A., Missy Elliott, DiploHigh school can be so lame. All those tests. Homework. Plus the other kids teasing you about your red-hot music career. “It was kinda annoying,” says 18-year-old Baltimore club queen Rye Rye, “’cause I would be walking the hall and there would be a group of people in a stairwell, and they would all break out singing my song.”  ...  read more

Four Reasons to Get Behind Rye Rye in '09

First came Edgar Allan Poe. Then, after a long interval indeed, came the double-whammy of The Wire and Michael Phelps. And now, in a sign of its possible ascendance from the depths of the cultural abyss, the fair city of Baltimore has given us the girlish rapper Rye Rye, who in her short life has already become muse to Blaqstarr and protégée to M.I.A., and whose sassy rhymes are reason enough to get excited about 2009. Here are four reasons to get on the bandwagon now: ...  read more