On “Free Ride,” the first single from Mykki Blanco’s new mini-LP Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep, the musician constructs a tabernacle from which to worship the sensation of love. The accompanying video features Blanco refiguring tropes of family, community, and celebration to more inclusive ends. What might read as dysfunctional …
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Charlie “Chubby” Manning Walker learned to play guitar after being hit by a car. He was 15 when the car popped the pavement, slammed into him from behind, and left him with a broken arm and shoulder. Confined to a bed for a couple months, there was little he could …
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When the French musician Ludovic Navarre, who works under the name St Germain, originally released the Tourist album in 2000, “Sure Thing” was immediately a favorite. It wove together samples — including shivers of guitar from the legendary John Lee Hooker‘s “Harry’s Philosophy” and the gently funky march of 100% …
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Artists who found themselves recording music in lockdown last year were often split between two creative paths: those geared towards introspection, and those who anticipated the post-pandemic hedonism to come in summer 2021. Loraine James, meanwhile, found a way to synthesize both states of mind. The London-based producer’s latest album, …
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Mykki Blanco has released a new song, “It’s Not My Choice,” featuring Blood Orange. The track will appear on Blanco’s upcoming mini-album, Broken Hearts and Beauty Sleep, out June 18th via Transgressive Records. “It’s Not My Choice” opens with an eerie groan of strings, but quickly settles into a slick …
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Beck has released a new remix of his Hyperspace track “Chemical” ahead of the 2019 album’s Record Store Day reissue Saturday, with Chloé Caillet putting a synthy, dance spin on the spaced-out song. Beck’s Record Store Day rerelease of Hyperspace is a limited-edition reissue of the album’s 2020 variant, which …
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Doja Cat has announced the tracklist and release date for her third studio album, Planet Her. Arriving on June 25th, the 14-song set features Ariana Grande, the Weeknd, Young Thug, J.I.D, and SZA. The follow-up to 2019’s Hot Pink includes Doja Cat’s previously released collaborative track with SZA, “Kiss Me More.” …
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Brockhampton have announced their Here Right Now tour, which kicks off in Europe in January 2022 followed in February by a string of UK dates and a stop in Paris, France before heading into the North American leg of the tour. Tickets go on sale on Friday at 10 a.m. …
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Indie rock outfit Spoon have announced a U.S. tour set to take place in early fall. The trek is split loosely into a West Coast and East Coast leg, with the former starting September 3rd at the Ogden Twilight Series in Ogden, Utah, and wrapping September 25th with a set …
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As the YouTube description proclaims, Toyah Wilcox finally breaks Robert Fripp’s brain as the couple cover ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man” in the latest installment of their Sunday Lunch video series. Joined as always by their masked guitarist, Sydney Jake, the trio ran through the ZZ Top classic with characteristic …
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