Sep 13, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Chicago musician and poet Jamila Woods is releasing a new album, Water Made Us, on October 13 via Jagjaguwar. Now she has shared its third single, “Good News.” More

Aug 18, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 25th Songs of the Week of 2023. Songs of the Week was on hiatus for the last month because Wendy and I were on a much needed vacation to England and Iceland. I received several reader emails worried we had killed Songs of the Week, but have no worries, it’s back. As well as a regular Songs of the Week, we have put together an additional Spotify playlist featuring all the songs we also liked while Songs of the Week was taking a break. More

Aug 16, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Chicago musician and poet Jamila Woods is releasing a new album, Water Made Us, on October 13 via Jagjaguwar. Now she has shared its second single, “Boomerang,” via a music video. More

Jul 14, 2023 By Mark Redfern (with Kat Ramkumar)

Welcome to the 24th Songs of the Week of 2023. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because of the July 4th holiday falling on a Tuesday, leaving less songs to consider. So, this week’s Songs of the Week is supersized and incorporates tracks from the last two weeks. More

Jul 11, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar

Chicago musician and poet Jamila Woods has announced a new album Water Made Us, and shared a video for its first single, “Tiny Garden,” which features duendita. More

Oct 06, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Jamila Woods has shared a lyric video for her new single, “Boundaries.” It is Woods’ first new music since the release of 2020’s “Sula (Paperback),” which was #1 on our Songs of the Week list. More

Aug 05, 2022 By Joshua Mellin

Lollapalooza returned to Chicago’s Grant Park last weekend. More

Oct 20, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Bonobo (aka Simon Green) has shared a new single, “Tides,” which features Chicago-based artist Jamila Woods. It is the latest release from his forthcoming album, Fragments, which will be out on January 14, 2022 via Ninja Tune. More

Jan 07, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Last year Jamila Woods shared a new song “Sula (Paperback),” which was inspired by Toni Morrison and was #1 on our Songs of the Week list. Last night she performed the song on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. More

Sep 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Last month Jamila Woods shared a new song “Sula (Paperback),” which was inspired by Toni Morrison and was #1 on our Songs of the Week list. Now she has shared a new version of the song, “Sula (Hardback),” via a video for the track. More

Aug 07, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Samantha Small, Jennifer Irving, and Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the 31st Songs of the Week of 2020. This week Democrats, Republicans, and the Trump Administration couldn’t all agree on a new stimulus package a week after expanded unemployment benefits expired (something Democrats wanted to extend and Republicans didn’t). More

Aug 06, 2020 By Samantha Small

Jamila Woods hasn’t made any music since LEGACY! LEGACY!, her acclaimed 2019 sophomore album that honors artists of color with titles such as “BALDWIN,” “BASQUIAT,” and “ZORA.” Today, Woods continues on with this theme but with a slight deviation. Her new track “SULA (paperback),” is also the name of the title and lead character from Toni Morrison’s 1973 novel. More

May 10, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Charly Bliss released a new album, Young Enough, today via Barsuk and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album below, as well as on two runner-ups that were almost our Album of the Week. Below that are streams of other notable albums released today. More

Oct 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

An artist whose last song also made it to #1 on that week’s list and an anti-Donald Trump protest song scheduled to be covered by many more artists head this week’s Songs of the Week list. Plus Thom Yorkemakes the list yet again. More

May 14, 2019 By Celine Teo-Blockey

Reclaiming black and brown history through its poets, musicians, intellectuals, and activists, Chicago-based multi-hyphenate Jamila Woods—herself many of these things—gives props to her inspirational heroes. More