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Post Malone has been busy touring with Beach Fossils and hanging out with Militarie Gun, but he’s also rolling out his new album Austin, so titled, I guess, because Austin Post is giving us the real him this time? (He says he played guitar on every song.)  » Read More

Last week, Chicago rapper Valee released “Vibrant,” a collab with Action Bronson and NYC superproducer Harry Fraud. On July 21, Valee and Harry Fraud will drop a full joint album called Virtuoso. Today, we get to hear another track from that project: “Watermelon Automobile” features contributions from fellow Chicagoian Saba and rising Charlotte rapper Mavi.  » Read More

Barbie soundtrack contributor PinkPantheress has been teasing a new album since late May, posting to social media with a song teaser and the admission: “album season is upon us.” Since then, her bubbly, Western-lite Barbie track “Angel” has dropped, and she’s joined Ice Spice at London’s Wireless festival to perform their collab “  » Read More

Only yesterday Disclosure announced that they’d be dropping their fourth studio album within 24 hours — just weeks after celebrating the 10th anniversary of their career-making debut, Settle. Alchemy is being released independently via their own Apollo Records in partnership with AWAL. The other wildcard is that brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence have not included any features or samples on the 11-track Alchemy.  » Read More

The Polaris Music Prize, awarded annually to the best album by a Canadian artist, announced its longlist a month ago. Today they pared it down to 10 finalists, all released within the eligibility window between May 1, 2022 and May 1, 2023. The shortlist includes Blue Rev by Alvvays — our own pick for 2022’s best album by any artist,  » Read More

On Wednesday night, Juanes was set to perform a show at Central Park’s SummerStage as part of the Latin Alternative Music Conference concert series. But it was halted after he got through only two songs due to “excessive crowds,” per the organizers of the event.  » Read More

Prewn is a project based out of Northampton, Massachusetts led by Izzy Hagerup, and next month she’s releasing her debut album, Through The Window, via Exploding In Sound Records. Today, we’re getting its lead single, “But I Want More,” the sort of raw, immediate recording that makes one sit up and take notice: Hagerup’s quivering voice and swallowed-up words gives way to a scraping,  » Read More

The psych-focused Southern California festival Desert Daze has long been regarded as one of the best live music events going, a sentiment I can affirm after attending myself last year. Unfortunately, there will be no Desert Daze in 2023. The fest just announced that it is taking a year off and will return from Oct.  » Read More

Disclosure, electronic duo and brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence, have announced the release of their fourth studio album, Alchemy.  » Read More