{"id":23376,"date":"2025-10-14T17:10:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23376"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:10:31","slug":"makaya-mccraven-drops-four-new-singles-from-upcoming-eps-and-shares-fresh-live-video-for-choo-choo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=23376","title":{"rendered":"Makaya McCraven drops four new singles from upcoming EPs and shares fresh live video for \u2018Choo Choo\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23126\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23126\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23126\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Makaya-McCraven-by-Shannon-Marks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"461\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-23126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Shannon Marks<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Makaya McCraven is turning up the heat with four brand new singles today, one from each of his upcoming EPs: <em>Techno Logic<\/em>, <em>The People\u2019s Mixtape<\/em>, <em>Hidden Out!<\/em>, and <em>PopUp Shop<\/em>. These new tracks &#8211; \u2018Prime&#8217;, \u2018What a Life&#8217;, \u2018News Feed\u2019, and \u2018Sweet Stuff\u2019 &#8211; are a taste of what&#8217;s to come when the full EPs drop on October 31st through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intlanthem.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Anthem<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nonesuch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nonesuch<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xlrecordings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">XL Recordings<\/a>. And for the full experience, the tracks will be compiled into a double LP\/CD release titled <em>Off the Record<\/em>, hitting stores on October 17th.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If that wasn\u2019t enough, McCraven has also shared a live video of \u2018Choo Choo\u2019 from <em>The People\u2019s Mixtape<\/em>, filmed at his performance at Thalia Hall in Chicago earlier this month. We can\u2019t wait to hear it all and if you haven\u2019t yet, now\u2019s the time to dive in.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/utXCSavVTbE?si=h0PvcOkFOivJVPoj\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2344641602\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/track=87033600\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intlanthem.bandcamp.com\/album\/techno-logic-featuring-theon-cross-ben-lamar-gay\">Techno Logic (featuring Theon Cross &amp; Ben LaMar Gay) by Makaya McCraven<\/a><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=177735624\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/track=554441233\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intlanthem.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-peoples-mixtape\">The People&#8217;s Mixtape by Makaya McCraven<\/a><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2497618056\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/track=3589365564\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intlanthem.bandcamp.com\/album\/hidden-out\">Hidden Out! by Makaya McCraven<\/a><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1068782011\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/track=308623546\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intlanthem.bandcamp.com\/album\/popup-shop\">PopUp Shop by Makaya McCraven<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makaya McCraven is turning up the heat with four brand new singles today, one from each of his upcoming EPs: Techno Logic, The People\u2019s Mixtape, Hidden Out!, and PopUp Shop. These new tracks &#8211; \u2018Prime&#8217;, \u2018What a Life&#8217;, \u2018News Feed\u2019, and \u2018Sweet Stuff\u2019 &#8211; are a taste of what&#8217;s to come when the full EPs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2668],"class_list":["post-23376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-makaya-mccraven"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23379,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23376\/revisions\/23379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}