I sat down with Dua Saleh, the Sudanese-American “Black R&B” pioneer and star of Netflix’s ‘Sex Education,’ to discuss their debut LP, “demure” fans and collabs w/ Amaarae, Duckwrth, Gallant + Sid Sriram!

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🎥 Watch the full interview below!

We asked Guster to give out their own award for excellence in music. They highlight albums from the last year(ish) by IDLES, Dina Ögon, Cameron Winter and more!

They especially loved @slowdiveofficial.bsky.social’s ‘everything is alive’

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@guster.bsky.social

Few can produce for Teller Bank$ quite like Teller Bank$. Wino Willy is one of those few.

Save “TomFoolery” — a brand new single off @winowilly.bsky.social and Teller’s forthcoming collab album ‘BLACKMAN!’ — to your streaming playlists and WATCH my latest video on YouTube: youtu.be/52j_mSKZqSU?...

It’s the end of the year, so it’s time for some reflection…

Not self-reflection, obviously!

I’m talkin about these rappers!

Check out my BEST IOWA HIP-HOP 2024 recap for IPR - complete w/ photos from a busy year + a curated playlist of ALL IOWA RAP/R&B!

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fave artists i interviewed or did a lil photo shoot with in 2024:

Armand Hammer
Bangladesh
Blondshell
Crystal Rose
Del Water Gap
Elizabeth Moen
flipturn
The Japanese House
Killer Larry
The Linda Lindas
Martha Redbone
McKinley Dixon
OMB Peezy
Samara Joy
Sunny War
Suzanne Vega
The Cactus Blossoms

🍏 We dive deep at IPR Studio One - Like our interview with singer-songwriter THE JAPANESE HOUSE and her dog/muse Joni Jones (à la “One for sorrow, two for Joni Jones”) from Hinterland earlier this year!

🎥: youtu.be/1q0bbkIeY-w?...

I got to sit down with FLIPTURN not once but TWICE this year to get updates on the hottest beach town indie band around! Watch our interview from Hinterland AND read the full story at the links below!

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