54+ min ago  (1052+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Confessions II by Madonna Reunited with Stuart Price two decades on, Madonna runs the nonstop mix through grief, exes, and pre-fame New York. Her best album since the original. Madonna, the 46-year-old dance-pop lifer with…...

2+ hour, 55+ min ago  (1054+ words) Shatter the Standards Milestones: Section. 80 by Kendrick Lamar A 23-year-old with a co-sign from Dr. Dre made an album about his generation's addictions. Fifteen years later, the first week's 5, 000 copies look like a rounding error against the culture it rewired....

1+ hour, 51+ min ago  (977+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: Visitor by SIENNA SPIRO On the debut of orchestral soul cut at Abbey Road and Electric Lady, a 20-year-old Londoner writes love as a lease and signs it with the end date showing. Somewhere in…...

6+ hour, 49+ min ago  (1036+ words) Shatter the Standards Milestones: Stakes Is High by De La Soul Three albums deep in invented slang and inside jokes, De La Soul dropped the code on their fourth and said plainly what they thought of a culture they loved…...

6+ hour, 49+ min ago  (1476+ words) Shatter the Standards Milestones: Peaceful Journey by Heavy D & The Boyz Heavy D cut it the year hardcore rap hardened, then hid grief and a street conscience inside the dance songs. Peaceful Journey is the widest record anyone in 1991 rap…...

22+ hour, 46+ min ago  (1206+ words) Shatter the Standards Milestones: black SUMMERS'night by Maxwell Seven years of quiet produced the most honest R&B album of 2016's stacked summer, and the most ignored. Releasing an album after eight years is risky for a career. Releasing a…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (133+ words) Shatter the Standards Wednesday Roundups #156: 25 New Projects You Should Listen to Now Listen to new releases from Wyclef Jean, Cory Henry, Joseph Solomon, Nia Smith, Gwen Bunn, Nectar Woode, Rico Love, Devon Gilfillian, Radamiz, Kamaal Williams, Seafood Sam, and others....

2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1881+ words) Shatter the Standards June 2026 Roundups: The Best Albums of the Month June 2026 buried the rest of the year in two weeks. Seventy-some records deep, and the drop-off doesn't start anywhere near the bottom. There is no comfort here. June is…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (681+ words) Shatter the Standards Album Review: BOUNDS by Beedie & Nice Rec Beedie gives Nice Rec the whole board and turns his scars into the loudest thing in the room. His most gripping writing in years, gilded front to back. Kintsugi is…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (1217+ words) Shatter the Standards Lync Lone writes dread and defiance of weed, money pressure, and Rochester street names. He isn't one for lingering; he might as well present the threat and, before the line even finishes itself, reply. He can take…...