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Justin Cary, bassist for the Texan alt-pop band Sixpence None The Richer, has passed away. Cary suffered a stroke last week. Earlier this week, bandmate Leigh Nash shared the news on Instagram, as well as a link to a GoFundMe page to raise money for Cary and his wife Linda. Yesterday, Linda announced that Cary had passed away peacefully that morning. Cary was 50.

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Tierra Whack can really, really rap. The Philadelphia artist is a super-inventive visual stylist with a ton of bright art-pop ideas, so it can be easy to overlook the fact that she’s got bars. It’ll be a lot harder once you hear her new record Whack’s Museum. When she announced the impending release a couple of weeks ago, Whack referred to Whack’s Museum as a “rap mixtape.” She wasn’t kidding.

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You know what you’re getting with Desire. Together, Montreal vocalist singer Megan Louise and former Chromatics leader Johnny Jewel make shimmery, whispery, glamorous synthpop. They’ve been doing it ever since their self-titled debut came out in 2009. Desire haven’t exactly been the most prolific act over the years, but they released their album Games People Play last year, and they’re already planning on following it with another LP this year.

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If you’re under 30, then the Alchemist has been making heady deep-concentration rap beats for longer than you’ve been alive. He’s a one-man institution, and he continues to do incredible work in his own personal lane. Last year, he teamed up with Armand Hammer on Mercy, his second collaborative album with the duo, and he got together with Curren$y and Larry June on the Spiral Staircases EP earlier this year. Maybe we’ll get to hear that Erykah Badu album one day, too. Today, Uncle Al releases a new EP that includes four songs with four different rappers.

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A new Channel Tres single called “Black Techno Guy” is sort of like a new JPEGMAFIA album called Experimental Rap. Those are the dumbest and most obvious terms that we could use to describe these artists, but maybe those artists want to own those terms. On “Black Techno Guy,” Channel Tres chants, “I’m the Black techno guy, Black techno guy.” I guess he is!

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About halfway through his new album Project X, there’s a moment on the “Dummy” intro where the reliably hard Memphis rap great Key Glock chants the famous intro drop from Tay Keith, the Memphis rap producer who was found dead yesterday. Tay Keith’s passing is a sudden shock, and “Dummy” is the first time since his death that I got ambushed by a new Tay Keith beat that I didn’t see coming. I’m sure that’ll happen a lot of times in the months ahead. It shouldn’t have caught me off-guard, but it made his passing hit that much harder. Tay Keith was good. “Dummy” is a good song.

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It’s such a great feeling to hit play on a Bandcamp record from a band you’ve never heard of and to know, within 30 seconds, that you’re hearing something good. This morning, I got that feeling right away from the new two-song single by the Richmond, Virginia band Canaries. As someone who lives near Richmond, I feel like I should’ve already known about this band, but no, this is a Scott Lapatine discovery. Scott, in the Stereogum editorial spreadsheet: “forgot why i followed but this is good.” He’s right! This is good!

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The hitmaking Memphis rap producer Tay Keith has passed away. His regular collaborator BlocBoy JB shared the news of Keith’s death on his Instagram story, writing, “We talked everyday yeen even tell me you was leaving.” WSMV confirms that he was recently found dead in his Nashville apartment. No cause of death has been reported. Keith was 29.

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Here’s something crazy to consider: Pioneering doom metal titans Sleep are coming back, and they’re coming back without Matt Pike, the permanently shirtless wildman guitarist who has always been their most recognizable member. In fact, there’s only one returning Sleep member in this new lineup: Al Cisneros, the band’s singer, bassist, and lead songwriter.

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