What's Good (Week of 3/15/26)
Back again with a new selection of What's Good, my weekly new music blog full of dope shit for you to step to. Got a whole lot of joints for you this week, including:
New Albums
- Duncecap & Samurai Banana
- Filth Is Eternal
- Hurray For The Riff Raff
- Lt Headtrip & Northern Draw
- Sankofa, G Fam Black, & Tali Rodriguez
- Terrace Martin
- Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, Macie Stewart
New Singles
- Ain't
- Black Milk
- Chester Watson & Thxk_u
- Fat Ray & Raphy
- Slippers
- Stik Figa & Heather Grey
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Mercy Charity Giveaway
We're coming up on the end of the month and with that, the end of my charity giveaway of Armand Hammer & The Alchemist's Mercy on vinyl.
Make a charitable donation to any of the following:
- Trans Youth Emergency Project: A project from the Campaign for Southern Equality, offering logistical and financial support to families affected by laws restricting or banning care for transgender children across the United States
- Al Otro Lado: An organization providing legal and humanitarian aid for immigrant communities in the U.S. and Mexico, with litigation services, family reunification, and a number of other programs.
- The Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund: A fund directing resources to organizations across the Twin Cities metro area and Greater Minnesota that provide basic needs, urgent legal services, and advocacy resources for communities impacted by immigration-related harm.
And fill out this Google form with proof of your donation. I'll close out the form on 3/31/26, then I'll contact a randomly selected one of you for an address to send the record to. I haven't gotten as much motion on this as I would like, so if you've been waiting to jump in, your odds of taking the record home are pretty high.
If you're looking for other ways to help in Minnesota specifically, check out the mutual aid and support resources at Stand With Minnesota.
In light of the Kansas state law that invalidated driver's licenses for transgender citizens, in addition to the Trans Youth Emergency Project up above, some Kansas-specific resources include:
- Trans Continental Pipeline: A Colorado organization that assists with relocation efforts for queer people living in unsafe environments. With Colorado being on Kansas' border, they've undoubtly gotten a lot busier very suddenly.
- Our Spot KC: An LGBTQ+ community organization in Kansas City that operates Lion House, a transitional housing space aimed at fighting LGBTQ+ homelessness.
- The Center of Wichita: Secures resources and educational opportunities for Wichita's LGBTQ+ community, including hosting a central meeting space in downtown Wichita.
Now let's get on with the music.
Playlists
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Bonus Beats
Elmattic
Elmattic's regular Dope of the Month Club column is highlighting dope instrumental Hip Hop with a bunch of great records. Got put onto a lot, including this Shining Force and Arthurian legend inspired beat tape from French beatmaker Shitao.
Dashiell Lewis
The homey Dash Lewis talked with ELUCID about his new record–I Guess U Had To Be There, with Sebb Bash–for The Guardian.
He relinquishes production duties on his newest record, I Guess U Had to Be There, a collaboration with Swiss producer Sebb Bash, “a super talented guy with an exceptional ear,” Elucid says. “There’s a studio full of instruments that he says he can’t play, but all of a sudden, you got xylophone in the beat.” It’s not as serrated as some of Elucid’s own production, but it retains the woozy, layered, psychedelic feel of being enveloped by sound. “I think that’s what’s special about our thing,” Elucid says. “I’m rapping over sounds that maybe don’t make sense to some people.”
Elucid worked on the record between sessions for the much heavier Revelator, and Mercy, Armand Hammer’s latest album with the Alchemist. On those albums, Elucid is concerned with resilience among the daily horrors of state violence, systemic racism and the capitalistic death-drive of the daily grind. Returning to the Sebb Bash project felt like a place to channel his more upbeat, celebratory feelings about life. “My morning starts in service,” a line from opener First Light, is directly about making his children breakfast, and there’s joy in his malleable rhythms and wordplay: this is an artist fascinated with their tools. “You can’t ever discount rapping about rapping,” he says. “You’re putting words together stylishly and it doesn’t have to have a structure or moral centre. It just has to sound fly."
And ELUCID along with Sebb Bash pulled up on the Rap Music Plug Podcast to break down the album.
Natalie Weiner
Natalie Weiner starts Don't Rock The Inbox's "protest music" series (see her intro for the explanation on the quotation marks), interviewing Chattanooga's Sunny War.
NW: Over and over again, you've sort of kind of come back to reflecting just…the world in your music, rather than, as you're saying, kind of sticking to more love song type stuff. Why has it felt important for you to kind of keep returning to songs about the material realities of living right now?
SW: I mean, it's on your mind. A lot of stuff is fear driven. I can get really paranoid, and then writing about stuff is like trying to work through it. Right now, a lot of people I know are thinking like they want to move out of the U.S. They're talking about escaping fascism…that's gonna dominate your mind a little bit [laughs]. Like, shit is just really scary. It's just like your survival instincts, I gotta be in fear a little bit to be safe. But then it brings out another side that's also like, we're all gonna die anyway.
NW: I've noticed that as a theme in your interviews, a very pragmatic approach to mortality.
SW: I think it just helps, because instead of having anxiety attacks about stuff, sometimes you have to be like, "Is my life even that important anyway?" Not that I don't care about people being alive in general. It just sometimes evil stuff is so overwhelming that you can only find peace being like, "Other humans have lived really fucked up lives also." Sometimes maybe it's just not a good round, I don't know.
I also don't think that protest music or protesting does anything. I get the passion, and I appreciate it. I think it's compassionate, but if it's a bunch of war-mongering billionaires...we can't really do anything [that way].
tricot captured a bit of their "Room Service" set at Billboard Live in Tokyo on YouTube, with clips of their songs "Walking", "Butter", "Echo", "Joke Exam", and "Secret".
NAHreally is back rapping at home, this time two cuts from next week's (excellent) album EXTRA CHEESE.
Music
Sleep Sinatra - The Ends of the Earth (From TIMESOFPERIL, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
F1 Mac - Cardinal Sin (Out now. Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Ghostboyrj - Viewers Discretion is Advised feat. The 6th Letter (From Cartoons & Cereal, out on 3/27/26. Preorder: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Jay Cinema - Yearning (From A Smile To A Tear, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Black Milk - Crash Test Dummy (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Tash - Shoe Fits (From the upcoming Attention Is A Drug. Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Estee Nack & True Cipher - DANGERROOMDRILLS (From S.E.T.U. (SE EMBROMARON TODITO USTEDES), out on 4/7/26. Purchase or Stream "DANGERROOMDRILLS": Bandcamp)
Vel Nine & Sirrealist - Double Dutch (From Vel Nine X Sirrealist Vol. 1, out now. Purchase: Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Squarepusher - K7 Museum (From Kammerkonzert, out on 4/10/26. Preorder: Bandcamp | Phyiscals and Digital via Squarepusher's site, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Ain't - Grazer (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Sankofa
Sankofa, G Fam Black, & Tali Rodriguez - Don't Mind If I Do (From Monster Factory 2, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
89 The Brainchild - Rorschach Test feat. Orange Crystal (From Not Who I Thought I Was: the evil who brought us joy, out on 3/30/26. Preorder: Bandcamp | Vinyl via Fused Arrow Records)
Dear Dea - Old News II (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Terrace Martin - The Drops of Chocolate (From PURPOSE, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Mat Randol - Q&A (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Stik Figa & Heather Grey - No Secrets feat. Asher Roth (From Cold Comfort, out on 5/8/26. Preorder: Bandcamp | Cold Comfort | Vinyl via Mello Music Group, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Figmore - The Tale of the Rattlesnake, Part 2 (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Chester Watson & Thxk_u - pepto pink (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
MRCY - Better Days feat. Yazmin Lacey (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
TreDoes & pty - Curtains (Out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Slippers - Wants For Everyone (From Slippers 08, out on 6/5/26. Preorder: Bandcamp | Vinyl via Perennial Death | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Hurray For The Riff Raff - Pa'lante (Live at Old Town School of Folk Music) (From Live Forever, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Phyiscals/Digital bundles, via Nonesuch Records | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
14KT - Box Breathing (From Morning Meds, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Like - Rare Goodies (From Today Sounds Good, out on 5/8/26. Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Devin Morrison & CUBE - KAZUYA (Out now. Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Filth Is Eternal - Stay Melted (From Impossible World, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Vinyl via MNRK HEAVY | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, Macie Stewart - burning | counting (sleeping) (From BODY SOUND, out now (DSPs on 4/8/26). Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream "burning | counting (sleeping)" : Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Fat Ray & Raphy - Santa Rosa (From their collaborative album, out on 3/31/26. Purchase/Stream "Santa Rosa": Bandcamp)
Carlos Niño
Carlos Niño & Friends - Orangeharvest (From Bubble Bath for Giants, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
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Tyshawn Sorey - Equipoise (pt. 1) (From Members...Don't!, out on 5/29. Preorder: Bandcamp)
duendita - super sad! (From existential thottie, out on 4/29/26. Preorder: Bandcamp | 10k Global, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Von Pea - Make A Living (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Wun Two - Dragonfruit (From old fruits vol. 2, out now. Preorder: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
U.S. Girls - You've Got Everything - But A Smile (Theme from "Dead Lover") (Out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Jerry Paper - Contact (From BOiNK!, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
WATKK
Lt Headtrip & NorthernDraw - DIY Worldwide (From Unbound Flight, out now. Purchase/Stream: Bandcamp)
Rapswell & SQ - Floating Over The City feat. NAHreally & Marcus Pinn (From MAX POETICS, out on 3/27/26. Preorder: Bandcamp, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 24, 2015
Andy Savoie - Joey Heisman (From PAC10 Vol. 1, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple)
Papo2oo4 & YL - Barcelona '92 (From the upcoming Triple Double. YouTube loosie, as is the custom with a Papo2oo4 release.)
Duncecap & Samurai Banana - Sell Sand feat. Old Grape God (From Comfortably Suffering, out now. Purchase: Bandcamp | Vinyl via Fused Arrow Records | Qobuz, Stream: Tidal | Apple | YouTube Music)
That does it for this week! As always, if you enjoyed the blog be sure to share it with your folks, and don't hesitate to reach out to me in the comments or on social media with your thoughts.
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