Nicki Minaj’s alter ego takes center stage on her fiery new single. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
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Nicki Minaj: “Roman in Moscow”
“Super Bass II” it ain’t: Minaj channels her menacing alter ego Roman Zolanski on the rapid-fire lead-off single from her Valentine’s Day release “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.”
Ernst Karel: “Materials Recovery Facility”
Earlier this year Karel became the experimental-music-world equivalent of famous for his field recordings of Swiss gondolas, “Swiss Mountain Transport Systems.” This excerpt from his latest, recorded at a Boston-area recycling plant, is just as stunning, and just as unexpectedly musical.
Sess 4-5 and Keedy Black: “I Luv Dat Boy”
Two up-and-coming New Orleans rappers unite for one of the season’s super-cheesiest and most undeniably great jams.
Cass McCombs: “Bradley Manning”
Sprawling and sympathetic, McCombs’s ode to the accused WikiLeaker is a throwback to the densely worded folkie protest ballads of the 1960s.
Cold Specks: “Holland”
The Canadian blues singer (real name Al Spx) sounds like the love child of Alan Lomax and Sister Rosetta Tharpe on her remarkable debut single
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