{"id":7400,"date":"2026-04-03T16:16:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/04\/earl-sweatshirt-mike-and-surf-gang-release-new-album-pompeii-utility\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:16:03","slug":"earl-sweatshirt-mike-and-surf-gang-release-new-album-pompeii-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/2026\/04\/earl-sweatshirt-mike-and-surf-gang-release-new-album-pompeii-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, and SURF GANG Release New album \u2018POMPEII \/\/ UTILITY\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earl-mike.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westcoastaftershock.com\/wca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earl-mike.jpg 800w, https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earl-mike-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earl-mike-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earl-mike-267x150.jpg 267w, https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/earl-mike-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, and SURF GANG release their double album POMPEII \/\/ UTILITY via 10k\/Tan Cressida\/SURF GANG Records. A long-rumored, coveted collaboration between two friends who happen to be two of the most critically celebrated rappers in the game and renowned producer collective SURF GANG, the double album is a capstone on the musical community they\u2019ve cultivated over the last decade. From top to bottom, there was a clear concerted effort to keep every angle of the project within the family. All of the art for this project, from single covers to the album cover, is pulled from work by sculptor and Earl Sweatshirt\u2019s childhood friend, Sharif Farrag.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=295955437\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikelikesrap.bandcamp.com\/album\/pompeii-utility\">POMPEII \/\/ UTILITY by Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE &#038; SURF GANG<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Over the past week, Earl, MIKE and SURF GANG have shut down intimate venues in LA and New York City for two secret shows they unveiled via a scavenger hunt on their website last month. The third and final secret show will take place tonight in London, ahead of their Home on the Range tour in support of the album, which kicks off in June. The official Home on the Range tour will include 26 US stops beginning June 9th in Riverside, before taking it overseas to Europe. MIKE and Earl also announced a series of Australian and New Zealand tour dates in May, including a show at Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid LIVE Festival. Tickets are on sale here and you can find the full run of tour dates, with support on select dates from Niontay, Cletus Strap, Anysia Kym, Na-Kel Smith, Lerado Khalil, Lisha G., C.FRIM and Chef Chung.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Structured as a double-sided album with MIKE on one side (POMPEII) and Earl on the other (UTILITY), SURF GANG\u2019s Harrison, evilgiane, Elipropperr, and Flea Diamonds lace an animated and frenetic framework through the project with their production, resulting in a full-circle collision of worlds that was inevitable. POMPEII \/\/ UTILITY translates those nuanced differences between MIKE, Earl &#038; SURF GANG into a singular language of their own, evoking a shared ethos of collaboration and community-building rather than a transactional exercise. The producer collective\u2019s distinctly online, manic song structures give MIKE &#038; Earl a new opportunity to fold their shared propensity for coded, meditative verses into the larger community they\u2019ve built through their friendship since MIKE first caught the world\u2019s, and Earl\u2019s, attention in 2016, ahead of his cult classic 2017 album MAY GOD BLESS YOUR HUSTLE. In the years since, the pair have tallied notable collaborations like \u201callstar\u201d on MIKE\u2019s 2020 album weight of the world, and \u201cSentry\u201d on Earl Sweatshirt and The Alchemist\u2019s collab album VOIR DIRE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/3RoyVaZOzBSTfo6jm4dvSR?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/earl-sweatshirt-mike-and-surf-gang-release-new-album-pompeii-utility\/\">Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, and SURF GANG Release New album \u2018POMPEII \/\/ UTILITY\u2019<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/rapindustry.com\/\">Rap Industry: New Hip Hop, Rap Videos, Music, News, &#038; more.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, and SURF GANG release their double album POMPEII \/\/ UTILITY via 10k\/Tan Cressida\/SURF GANG Records. 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