Oneohtrix Point Never makes his returnal (✌) this year with some damn fine soundtrack work. As we recently reported, Mr.
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Nídia announces debut album on Príncipe, inadvertently reintroduces “phat” as an acceptable adjective
Dropping her surname for reasons that may or may not have to do with a controversial American co-opting, Nídia (without the Minaj) has just announced Nidia é Má, Nidia é Fudida, her first full-length album, out on June 30 via the Portugal-based Príncipe label.
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Magic Fades & Soul Ipsum Zirconia Collapse
Styles: lush club, synth-noise
Others: Angel 1, The Golden Donna, Riohv, Earth Boys
A laser beam on a palm tree.
A dream only half-real.
A tense, sudden rhythm.
But MIDI that eases that.
& structured lushness, numbingly,
Scoffed in the mingling.
A faux guitar, but a real, authentic solo.
Authentically inauthentic.
Voices, as if in transmission.
Then, then
A relationship between various timbres &
The sensations they produce are
Softened into the foliage of Dawn.
A neon darkness, a scene with harps.
Cherubim, offices, & the
Motivational posters inside those offices.
Doctor’s room, shoes, YMCA.
Inundation, mobile arrangements.
Synth as an appendage,
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John Maus returns to tour the US, becomes the pitiless censor of Donald Trump’s tweets
Perhaps sensing that, amidst the nigh-apocalyptic madness currently gripping the world, we humans have never ever EVER been more in dire need of truly pitiless-ass motherfucking censorship, the legendary alien superhero and avant-synth pop god John “Mighty” Maus has flown back to earth to help get our dumb mammalian butts back in-line.
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Klein to premiere new “coming-of-age” musical at London’s New Music Biennial
It’s worth paying special attention to a coming-of-age story when it’s presented by Klein, because the London-based artist is just now getting her musical footing subsequent to a childhood infused with “intense” religiosity.
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♫♪ Lolina - “Keep It Movin’”
Lolina (f.k.a. Inga Copeland of Hype Williams) is at The Hotel Hollywood on Yucca St. She’s looking out the window. The view: Enterprise Rent-A-Car and The Capitol Records Building. It’s beautiful. Greasy bacon from Joseph’s Cafe fills the room, but all she can think about is money.
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Tee Grizzley My Moment
Styles: Detroit, YouTube, Gold’s Gym
Others: Team Eastside Peezy, Meek Mill, Kevin Gates
Fifteen minutes of fame is a lot to ask for these days. The new stardom is measured in moments, flashes of brilliance deservingly rewarded but impossible to replicate. The dissolution of the barriers to entry into the rap game has shone a light into the depths of tightly insular regional rap scenes, but the increasingly unclear path from a song to a sensation have left many unable to replicate the success that broke them.
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Zola Jesus announces new album Okovi, drops first single “Exhumed”
It feels a bit strange to be calling a person born in 1989 veteran songwriter, but that’s exactly what Nika Roza Danilova (or is it Nicole Hummel?) is at this point. The enigmatic Zola Jesus has shared a new single, titled “Exhumed,” and announced the release of her fifth proper LP. Okovi, which means “shackles” in certain Slavic languages, will be out September 8 via Sacred Bones.
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Avey Tare to soothe our shredded souls/throats with cool new solo album Eucalyptus
Although he’s probably still best-known for yelping, howling, barking, screeching, honking, grunting, and even cock-a-doodle-doo-ing his way through most of his band’s more raucous and visceral moments since their rise to prominence in the early 2000s, Animal Collective’s least-ursine member Avey Tare (née “Alfonzo Taretorelli”) has always been, at heart, a tender romantic with the moon in his eyes and a simple yearning for a little peace and qui
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Mutoid Man War Moans
Styles: metal, blues, progressive
Others: Cave In, Converge, Wild Throne, Tom Jones
Contemporary metal too often wears a serious face. There’s a point in “Kiss of Death,” the second single from War Moans, where vocalist/guitarist Steve Brodsky guffaws maniacally and comically. In that chortle, centering a chugging track of hubristic innuendo offset by sparring time signatures, Mutoid Man establish themselves as heavy metal’s premier goofball supergroup, a power trio stemming from Converge, Cave In, All Pigs Must Die, and the soundboard of Brooklyn’s metal church Saint Vitus.
More about: All Pigs Must Die, Cave In, Converge, Mutoid Man, Saint Vitus
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