02:55 On So When You Gonna…, Rakel Mjöll, Bella Podpadec, and Alice Go show they know empowerment isn't just catharsis. All Rights ReservedJordana has announced a two-part EP series, with the first part titled You may have spent this week gearing up for the holiday weekend, but your favorite artists were busy announcing new projects.

Kate Stables announced this week that her next album under the This Is The Kit alias is called If you think about the year as a whole, you may imagine 2020’s soundtrack as sounding bleak.

02:28 7 Rap and hip-hop have dominated the charts in recent years, and rappers have continued to make history in the past six months. Its members are Rakel Mjöll (vocals), Alice Go (guitar) and Bella Podpadec (bass).

In addition to these album announcements and accompanying singles, we heard a daring new album by British rock group Dream Wife and rounded up the best music of June 2020 (a good month for music by any standard). However we may remember June 2020 for its music in addition to its movements. While protest songs like those from Sault, Noname, Leon Bridges, Terrace Martin and Run The Jewels reigned supreme, we were also treated to songs of pure beauty. Overview 03:59 This week Washed Out, This Is The Kit and Sufjan Stevens each announced new albums out in 2020, and we couldn’t be more tickled. 02:46 This month, we received Run The Jewels’ fiery fourth LP, which our critic The 10 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2020 (So Far) Mjoll's vocals veer between fiery howl ("Let's Make Out") and detached coo ("Love Without …

6 Dream Wife won fans not just because of its brash, fresh take on female-fronted sounds that spanned '70s punk, '80s new wave, and '90s and 2000s indie, but because of the empowering, inclusive messages in songs like "Somebody." 3 03:18 From the jagged, CSS-like guitar of “So When You Gonna…” to the hooky brightness of album opener “Sports!” and the whip-smart lyrical asides of “Validation”, these are … There’s no doubting that now, and while there’s still six months of the year left, there’s no changing it. On Dream Wife, the trio of Rakel Mjoll, Alice Go, and Bella Podpadec channel their predecessors with precision and ease, distilling the grit and groove of early Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sahara Hotnights, and the Sounds, while paying their respects to forebears like Sleater-Kinney and Kathleen Hanna's Bikini Kill, and Le Tigre. 03:20 11 Countless artists made striking impressions, and some reached milestones.