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Polo & Pan, the electro-disco duo of Frenchmen Paul Armand-Delille (Polo) and Alexandre Grynszpan (Pan), have a splendid new single out today. A collaboration with Mexican group I.M YONI, “Nenuphar” taps into a dreamy, borderline hallucinogenic headspace that reminds me a bit of tropicalia, retro francophone pop, and the Avalanches, incorporating elements like a soaring string section and acoustic guitar along with its nifty groove.  » Read More

Two years ago, Straw Man Army, a DIY post-punk duo from New York, released their album SOS, and it impressed the hell out of me. Now, Straw Man Army have announced plans to drop a new LP called Earthworks next month. It’ll be the culmination of a trilogy that began with the group’s 2020 debut Age Of Exile,  » Read More

Michael Bonema, the NYC underground rap favorite known as MIKE, is revealing a big slate of tour dates today. To herald the announcement, he’s shared “Pieces Of A Dream,” another lens-smeared window into MIKE’s bleary headspace. It arrives with a video by Ryosuke Tanzawa that expertly matches the song’s drowsy-but-upbeat vibe. Below,  » Read More

The Leeds band Pest Control makes and extremely mean, incredibly fun form of crossover thrash, bringing metal virtuosity and hardcore swagger to their berserker riffage. Last year, the band released their debut album Don’t Test The Pest, and it fucking ruled. After that, they dropped the singles “  » Read More

This year, the rapper formerly known as A$AP Ferg — he’s just FERG now — returned from a period of relative dormancy, appearing on tracks from Denzel Curry and NBA star Jaylen Brown. In a few weeks, FERG will release Darold, his first new project in four years.  » Read More

Drake has been keeping an understandably low profile for the past six months or so, but he’ll still pop up with new music every once in a while. A couple of months ago, he dropped three new tracks on his Finsta. Now, he’s singing in Spanish on the new regional Mexican track “Modo Capone.”  » Read More

Lately there’s been plenty of news that, as usual, could make one feel like we’re living through some kind of climate apocalypse in real time. And while these are real and present dangers, there’s also a sector of the clean energy industry that believes we don’t need to look at everything happening around us as signals of imminent doom,  » Read More

Eleven months ago, Danny Brown returned with Quaranta, his long-awaited “I turned 40” album and quasi-sequel to his 2011 breakout XXX. Today he’s dropped a deluxe edition, which boasts two new songs plus instrumental versions of four from the original LP. The new tracks run the gamut where Brown is concerned: Produced by Black Milk,  » Read More

The emo/post-hardcore supergroup L.S. Dunes released their debut album Past Lives in 2022, and they’ve been cranking out a steady diet of one-off singles ever since then. The last of those songs was “Fatal Deluxe,” which just came out last month. Now, ahead of their performance at this weekend’s When We Were Young festival,  » Read More