New Year New Lewks. Local music gets some fresh faced videos from artists Cash Lansky and Xixa. Lansky gets an animated backdrop by local wunderkind Bydream inc while Xixa boys Brian Lopez and Gabe Sullivan stroll the barrio all decked out in their leathers.

Easily Tucson’s most prolific rap export with a over a quarter million followers on youtube and millions of views across an industrious output. Cryptik Wisdom has been pretty open about his substance abuse recovery and after a year of sobriety has this to share on the subject.

a little head knocking music for your weekend
you can support local artists via their bandcamp on fridays where 100% of the proceeds goto the artist.

This Friday we have local beatmakers

Sleepparalysis Dreamchamber crafts moody ethereal soundscapes with percussive back beats. Soundtracks to those future post apocalyptic cityscapes you hav’nt dreamed about yet…but in a good way.

dv0id is still very much about his 404 production and off kilter boom baps. With BB_treats2 ( a tenetive follow up to his 2018 long form mix bb_treats) he returns with his signature jazz samples all chopped up and obscured and lets them hang out just long enough for the loop to become an earworm and then its on the next one.

The video for the new single You and I Should Commit Tax Fraud from the upcoming album Loneliness Is Not Just A Feeling, It’s A Place available October 23.

“Trees Speak’s new album ‘Shadow Forms’ is a blend of 1970s German electronic and ‘motorik’ Krautrock instrumentals (think Harmonia, Can, Cluster, Popul Vuh, Neu!), haunting and powerful 1960s & 1970s soundtracks (think Italian prog-rock Goblin and John Carpenter horror movies, Morricone and existential John Barry spy movies), together with a New Nork no wave electronic synth and guitar analogue DIY-ness (think Suicide, anything on Soul Jazz’s New York Noise series or Eno’s New York No Wave)!” – via Soul Jazz Records

Link to Sounds of the Universe to listen and preorder