What's Good (Week of 11/30/25)
The time has come, for the final time this year, to put some more money in artists' pockets, with Bandcamp Friday. The semi-regular event where Bandcamp cedes their profit share of sales entirely to the artists and labels, so anything you purchase puts more bread on their books.
I nomrally do a round-up of special deals and offers that folks bring out for the day, but this week had hands for me, and I've been lucky to just get the standard edition of the blog out. Still, plenty of joints this week that you can toss your wallet at, including:
New Albums
- Deniro Farrar & Child Actor
- Melody's Echo Chamber
- redveil
- Sleep Sinatra
- sleepingdogs
- Vic Spencer
New Singles
- Charlotte Day Wilson
- Commitment
- Dawn Richard
- DJ Harrison
- Floating Points
- Puma Blue
And much more! All but one of the pieces in this week's Bonus Beats section highlight albums you can cop in Bandcamp right now, so don't sleep on those as well. And if you need any other inspiration to shop, feel free to puruse the archives.
Don't forget, you can subscribe to the blog to make sure everything I write hits your email inbox as soon as I hit publish.
Playlists
TIDAL
TIDAL: What's Good Playlist - Week of 11/30/25
YouTube
Bonus Beats
Liam Inscoe-Jones
Liam Inscoe-Jones spoke with DJ Haram following the release of this year's Beside Myself about her transition from activist, to DJ, to artist. We also get a hint for why a billy woods or Armand Hammer and DJ Haram full length might not have happened yet:
Liam Inscoe-Jones: To pivot back to the music: there was a quote from a profile of you earlier in the year where billy woods said that you “massage [your] beats like dough.” I think because of the amount of time and work you put into each of them. What do you think you’re massaging in or massaging out of your beats when you get to work on them?
DJ Haram: Umm honestly… I just think that woods has been doing what he does for a couple of decades now and he’s very used to his own workflow. He mostly works with producers who are mainly producers who don’t tour, don’t do DJ, don’t do live shows, who probably don’t even know how to do a beat set without pressing play or pressing pause… I think he thinks I work slow because I don’t think he realizes I’m still kind of new to making beats for rappers. woods and ELUCID are really good friends and it’s all a good vibe, but I literally just take longer. They’re used to producers who send them beat packs with like ten spare beats. I literally don’t remember the last time I had ten spare beats laying around. I’m getting better, like when I made “Stenography,” I knew the parts of the beat which had the drums where they could find their little pocket and where I’d need to do some post-production, but when I was making “Trauma Mic,” I didn’t really know that. So, yeah, I’m 'massaging the beat' but that also means looking up online how to do something… I have an MPC so I’m in my MPC hip-hop era. Rappers like rapping along to the sample. I thought it was all about the drums but with just drums, the kind of shit current people are on, that’s not enough personality to sell it.
SKECH185, I.B. Fokuz, and IL. Subliminal of Tomorrow Kings sat down with The Rap Music Plug Podcast to chat about the crew and their new LP SALT.
Intuition brought back the groundbreaking web series Kinda Neat for a one-off to give one of the standouts from Leave A Mark the live performance treatment.
Speaking of throwbacks, in honor of the 10th anniversary release of Lil Me on vinyl (which you can cop from Bandcamp today), Wiki releases a mini-doc that looks back at the making of his solo debut mixtape.
I showed you Side A back in October with J. Rocc, and now Side B of Big Crown's Surprise Chef mixtape Cooking For Chefs is up, with Mr. Thing on the boards.
Puma Blue - Croak Dream (From Croak Dream, out on 2/6/25. Preorder: Bandcamp | Physicals via Puma Blue's Official Site | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
eu-IV - yesterdaytew (Out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Melody's Echo Chamber - The House That Doesn't Exist (From Unclouded, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Physicals and merch via Hello Merch | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
yeule - VV (From Evangelic Girl is a Gun, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Physicals and digital at Ninja Tune | Preorder the deluxe vinyl edition via Yeule Inc. | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
FKA twigs - Love Crimes (From EUSEXUA Afterglow, out now. Purchase: Vinyl via FKA twigs' official store | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
The Doppelgangaz - Don't Mess with Them Sharks (From Bet On Black Cloak, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz | Digital via The Doppelgangaz Official Site (vinyl and merch for Bet on Black Cloak is sold out), Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Lt Headtrip & steel tipped dove - We Got The Sugar (From Hostile Engineering, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Vinyl via Fused Arrow Records | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Theravada - Polarity (From T90 GYRO, out 12/9. Only on YouTube for now.)
Bruiser Wolf & Harry Fraud - Tubi (From MADE BY DOPE, out now. Purchase: CDs and merch via | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Charlotte Day Wilson - High Road (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Dawn Richard - A Flex (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Merge Records | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Verb T - Illusion of Self feat. Farma G & BVA (From To Love A Phantom, out on 12/11. Preorder: Bandcamp | Physicals, digital, and merch via High Focus (UK), Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
SALIMATA - Jackpot (From The Happening, out on 12/12. Preorder: Bandcamp | 10k Global | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Floating Points - Corner Of My Eye (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
DJ Harrison - Seek God feat. Fly Anakin (From ElectroSoul, out on 1/23/26. Preorder: Bandcamp | Vinyl via Stones Throw | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Sweatson Klank - Unravel (From Perhaps, out on 1/16/25. Preorder: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Vic Spencer - Miss Cleo's Weed Stash (From Show & Prove Not Back & Forth, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Niontay - 100DAYS100NIGHTS (From Soulja Hate Repellant, out on 12/16. Preorder: Bandcamp | 10k Global | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Deniro Farrar & Child Actor - Fish (From Raw Materials, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Commitment - Hellraiser (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Erick Sermon - Sidewalk Executives feat. M.O.P. (From Dynamic Duos, out now. Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Slothrust - You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch (Out now. Purchase: Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Youtube Music)
Lexa Gates - Estranged (From I Am, out on 1/16/26. Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Seneca B - Swimming (From her upcoming EP, out next year. Purchase: Previous singles "Flashes" and "Omens" on available on Bandcamp | Swimming available on Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Kit Sebastian - New Internationale (Stripped) (From New Internationale (Deluxe Edition), out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Brainfeeder/Ninja Tune | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple)
Jay Worthy - True Story feat. Ty Dolla $ign (From Once Upon A Time 2, out now. Purchase: Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Youtube Music)
Moka Only - RL Sweater With The Skis (From Martian XMAS 2025, out on 12/12. Preorder: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Westside Gunn - Body Bag Benny feat. Stove God Cooks (From MY SAUCONYS GLOWIN, out now. Purchase: Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Youtube Music)
Crumb - XXX (Live from the Wiltern 2024) (From Live!, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Vinyl via Crumb's Official Shop | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Sankofa & Uncle Fester - Coffin-shaped Footprints feat. JON?DOE (From Beats from the Crypt, out on 12/25. Preorder: Digital via Sankofa's Bandcamp | Cassette via DJ Uncle Fester's Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Sleep Sinatra - Bionic Man (From TIMESOFPERIL, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Garfunkle - November 2025 koala beats (Beat tape, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
ONRY x MILIPEDE - Either Or (From 𝑯 𝒐 𝒍 𝒅 𝒀𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑯 𝒐 𝒖 𝒔 𝒆 𝒔, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp)
redveil - time (a dream deferred) (From sankofa, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Le$ - Stay Strapped feat. Bun B & Slim Thug (From Steak x Shrimp, Vol. 4, out now. Purchase: Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Daniel Son - Golden Turborgs (YouTube loosie freestyle.)
Channel Tres - Free Your Mind (Channel Tres Version) (En Vogue cover) (Out now. Purchase: Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | Youtube Music)
Devin Music (aka Dot Dev) - Elf Holding Mouse (From Elf Holding Mouse, out now. Half the proceeds go to Rajab Al Reefi of Gaza Skate Team. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Stik Figa - Throwback (From LISSEN UP! bw/ Throwback, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Ardamus - Turn My Ashes Into Vinyl (From Turn My Ashes Into Vinyl, out on 12/19. Preorder: Bandcamp)
Yasiin Bey fka Mos Def - The Embassy (Lapgan remix) (From Lapgan is Ecastatic, Lapgan's remix project of Yasiin Bey's The Ecstatic (read a bit about it over at Flood Magazine) out now. Purchase: Bandcamp)
CunninLynguists - Be Together (From The Heartstring Theory [Part Two], out on 12/12. Preorder: Bandcamp)
Wun Two - uoy (From Snow, Vol. 10, out on 12/19. Preorder: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
sleepingdogs - electric magnolia feat. Rich Jones (From home remedies to cure bad luck, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
samplelov - like a locket (From post-adoration EP, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Milc & Andy Savoie - Blue Faces 2 (Out now. Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
That does it for the blog for this week. As always, thank you for rocking with me, and if you enjoyed anything (especially if you made a purchase on Bandcamp) let me know down in the comments or on social media. Take care of each other, have a good weekend, and make good choices.
Comments ()