Philmore Greene dropped a powerful new album this week called Chicago: A Third World City. The album feature some intense rhymes from Greene over beats primarily produced by Rashid Hadee. Through out the album there are also appearances from Neak, Yarbrough, FLYKelly, Peter Jericho, and Slot-A.

Chrissy Martin has released a new piece called “Body Puzzles” via the Michigan label 1473. This is a part of a larger project she is calling “Sound Moves” which explores the relationship between movement and sound, voice and body.

The audio was recorded live during the performance that you can watch below.

Kevin Czaja has released a second composition, “Past, Present, Future”, from his forthcoming album. This is cinematic classical music that allows you to close your eyes and imagine the epic battle scenes and aerial shots this music was meant to accompany.

This is a far departure from the instrumental metal sounds of his rock duo Mad Martyr.

Pugs Atomz released a new album last month called Highly Irregular. The features production from Mulatto Patriot and contributions from Shayna Love, Calid B., DJ Intel, Wes Restless, Maggie Vagle, and more.

Below is a new video from the album for the song “Hi!” featuring Awdazcate.

Mister Wallace recently released their latest album Cool Mom via the label they co-founded, Futurehood. The album feature production primarily by Jeremiah Meece, and is a huge step forward the talent emcee.

You can catch Mister Wallace on January 27th at East Room with Ka5sh, SWSH, and Dj Miguel Santiago.

Cascader is the instrumental post-rock trio of Ben Chargot, Parker Langvardt, Jeff Schaffer. They released their debut LP, Me Us You, via Worry Records today. This is epic, anthemic, instrumental rock that powerfully tells stories in a wholly unique way.

You can catch Cascader at The Owl tonight, December 13th, with Horrible and Basement Family.

Producer Stunna (aka Jay Cappo) recently released a new single, “Blue Dreams” b/w “Cali Nights”. As Stunna has been come to be known, these tracks effortlessly blend Stunna skill as a classically trained keyboardists with savage Drum & Bass techniques.

Stunna also hosts a weekly radio show called “The Greenroom” which can be heard live every Wednesday from 2 to 5pm on Bassdrive Radio.

Miranda Winters of Melkbelly has released a beautifully Jenna Caravello animated video for “O.T.O. Revised” from her 2018 solo album, Xobeci, What Grows Here?.

You can catch Miranda with Melkbelly on February 2nd at Empty Bottle with REZN and Hitter.

PROM D8 has their self-titled debut EP, and it is wild blend of Hip Hop, Soul, R&B, and insanity.

This primarily the work of Lizzie Zhang (L2K), Slade Warnken (Slade.Antonia), Alejandro Paredes, and Gavrie Smellhorse (2006IX). They also dropped a mixtape last month in advance of their debut that is almost equally as good.

I Ya Toyah is the Electronic music of Ania Tarnowska. She recently released her debut album, Code Blue, which finds her conquering all aspects of her hypnotic sound from synths to guitars, to beats, to intense vocals.

The album’s latest single is called “Glass Eyes” and is accompanied by the wild Joel Lopez (Lumbra Records) created video.

You can catch I Ya Toyah at Underground Lounge with Zwaremachine at Underground Lounge on March 29th.

Producer Spectacular Diagnostics recently released his latest album Raw Studies which features contributions from up and coming emcees from across the country include Chicago’s own Chris Crack (above) of the New Deal Crew.

Devin Wessels of Jam City Collective has released a very funky Christmas album called A Very Funkdapus Christmas. He takes on classics like “Jingle Bells”, “Christmas Time Is Here”, and “Drummer Boy”, but really creates something magical on “Santa Claus Sure Got Soul”.