It’s 4/20, and Brooklyn-based trans rapper Uncle Meg’s got the perfect video you can ride out your high with. His single “Verde” is a bop with a danceable beat, and the video is a seriously trippy journey. From rollerblading martians to a slimy green feast, its all just about random-ass fun.

Enter Berlin Taxi: the latest make and model from native New Orleans musician Michael Arruebarrena. Upon recently joining forces with fellow rad racers Morgan McManus and Greg Manson, the trio have embarked upon a new EP entitled CONTRACT.

Between Billie Eilish, the new Palehound song, the Sky Ferreira comeback single, and Foie Gras’s “Psychic Sobriety,” 2019 is shaping up to be the year of the Girl Creep: a gender archetype defined by excessive feminine desire, scheming, and menace. “I’m a bad lay, but I want you/I want you to choke me until you love me,” this latest installment begins, a great couplet that only gets better as the song progresses. “I’m a bad lay, but I’ll keep you safe/In my ashtray,” she continues, a pair of lines that kicks me back to Placebo at their acid glam heyday. No, I will not perform well, but yes, I will get what I want, and God help the one who tries to stop me.

After announcing the follow-up to his 2016 LP Bug with a cover of Yung Lean’s “Yoshi City,” Uncle Meg is sharing the first single from his forthcoming Butterfly EP on World Bipolar Day. This is not a coincidence—immediately after releasing Bug, Meg changed his gender pronouns and began medical transition, resulting in a confusing few years for the young rapper. “Take Me Away” directly addresses this transition and the effect it had on his mental health, despite the track’s smooth beat and its video’s warm cinematography.

Brooklyn rapper and multi-media artist Miss Eaves (aka Shanthony Exum) is following her 2017 debut album Feminasty (home of her breakthrough body positivity anthem “Thunder Thighs”) with the three-song Sad EP next Friday, April 5

The track comes paired with a lighthearted music video, directed by Angel Ceballos, which depicts the artist as a vampire pageant winner on a date that ends in tragedy and triumph again and again. A clip that must be seen to be believed, it is totally fun and provides an excellent accompaniment to the crackin’ goth-pop gem.

On April 5th, we’ll catch a glimpse of Uncle Meg’s metamorphosis results. Internal struggles and external struggles have merged to create Butterfly, a five-track EP inspired by his first two years of transition.

San Francisco artist Iphigenia Rose Lee makes distorted dancable pop that’s not too far from groups like M83 or TR/ST. Her new EP Holy Hell is out on April 5 via Yellow Year Records and second single “Sisyphus” is an appealing bleeding-levels anthem. This is also the only Foie Gras you’ll ever read about on this website.

Foie Gras is also the moniker to a Bay Area goth act, one whose second single has slunk out of the shadows just ahead of an EP, Holy Hell, due out April 5 via Yellow Year.

The first half of “The Garden” is bare-boned and ballad-like, with Conor Donohue singing about his mental struggles over a gentle acoustic guitar. Then, right around the song’s midpoint, “The Garden” bursts into bloom with cymbal crashes, keyboards and female harmonies. It’s a pastoral folksong with a garage-Americana heart.