James Rettig

Last month, Cameron Wisch and Justin Jurgens unveiled their new power-pop project Dust Star with “Nothing In My Head,” which landed on our best songs of the week list. They’re releasing their debut album, Open Up That Heart, in August, and today they’re back with another single,  » Read More

Vnce Staples has joined the cast for the pilot of Showtime’s reboot of the 1999 film The Wood, which will be executive produced by the movie’s original director Rick Famuyiwa. Variety describes the show as “an honest look at friendship and dating from the perspective of three young Black males born and raised in the gentrifying L.A.  » Read More

The production duo Two Shell have spent the past couple years rising in the UK electronic underground, releasing a series of EPs and vinyl-only singles that established a subtle and twitchy sound built around well-executed samples and hypnotic, looping beats. They started this year off by releasing the fizzily addicting “home”  » Read More

Danny Brown says that Ninja, one-half of the South African hip-hop group Die Antwoord, sexually assaulted him in Paris. In a recent interview with the podcast 2 Bears, 1 Cave, Brown said that Ninja approached him at an afterparty for one of his shows and sat on his lap attempting to kiss him.  » Read More

R. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, as The New York Times reports.  » Read More

Fred Gibson, the electronic producer who goes by the name Fred Again.., has released a new track called “Jungle.” It’s his first new track since “Admit It (U Ddn’t Want 2),” an India Jordan collab that came out earlier this year just a few weeks after the Romy/HAAi team-up “  » Read More

The electronic duo Bicep released their sophomore album, Isles, back in 2020, and they’ve spent the past year fine-tuning their live show. Today, they’re putting out “Meli (II),” a new version of a track that appeared on the deluxe edition of their album that came out last year.  » Read More

Hudson Mohawke has announced a new album, Cry Sugar, which will be out in August. It’s technically the Scottish producer’s first proper album since 2015’s Lantern, though in the past few years he’s been busy reviving TNGHT and putting out some mixtapes. A press release describes Mohawke’s inspirations this time around as being “deeply informed by apocalyptic film scores and soundtracks by everyone from the late Vangelis to the goofy […]

Naima Bock’s debut is a real gem — the kind of album that sneaks up on you, one that for some reason I can’t stop returning to. Giant Palm makes me feel like I’m floating on a cloud. It is preternaturally calm; it’s subtle and enveloping and moves in unhurried,  » Read More