Styles: situation, environment, archaeology, blood, sand
Others: Zíur, Bonaventure, Nkisi, Kablam
Thoom’s music operates environmentally. It uses sound to generate space; delineating its contours, filling its innards with sharp feelings and serrated velocities. Its spaces are layered, geological in nature — striated and stratified — assemblages of remnants, detritus. They exist in a state of flux, shuttling between destruction and reconstruction, saturated in and by a percussion that both sutures and rends.
More about: Thoom
Styles: gay porn, hi-NRG, bareback
Others: Giorgio Moroder, Boyd McDonald
“[Gay] pornography has become one of our privileged cultural forms, the expression of that quality for which we are stigmatized, queer-bashed, fired, evicted, jailed, hospitalized, electroshocked, disinherited, raped in prison, refused at the U.S. border, silenced, and ghettoized — that quality being our sexuality.”
— Tom Waugh, Men’s Pornography: Gay vs. Straight (1985)
More about: Patrick Cowley
Links: Patrick Cowley - Dark Entries
Styles: pop, dance, experimental pop
Others: Lady Gaga, Azealia Banks, PC Music
She wasn’t supposed to make it past 25. Charlotte Aitchison’s Charli XCX persona has never been geared toward longevity. Whether braving an apocalyptic day of reckoning on “Nuclear Seasons” or literalizing her mortality on “Die Tonight,” the Cambridge singer has long displayed a sense of fatalism in her music. On True Romance, Charli’s oncoming demise demanded romantic consummation, no matter how transitory. On Sucker, she combated encroaching death with puerile hedonism and carnal distraction.
More about: A. G. Cook, Alma, Brooke Candy, Carly Rae Jepsen, Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX, CupcakKe, Dorian Electra, easyFun, Jay Park, Kim Petras, Lil Sim, Mykki Blanco, MØ, Pabllo Vittar, SOPHIE, Tommy Cash, Tove Lo
2017 is almost over, and while people are quick to sing the praises of black women on their Twitter timelines, it’s truly time to fork over some cash and, y’know, actually support black women artists.
More about: Mhysa
According to Boyd Rice, Stefan Weisser a.k.a. Z’EV has died at 66. The poet, percussionist, and sound artist was a pioneer of industrial music and collaborator with everyone from Stephen O’Malley and Oren Ambarchi to Genesis P-Orridge and Glenn Branca. His music has been released on albums as varied as Touch, Editions Mego, Soleilmoon Recordings, and Tzadik. RIP.
More about: Z'ev
Listen, there’s no time: Saint Charli just dropped her new mixtape for the fourth day of Hanukkah, so just freakin listen to it okay?? And if the first track being a Charli/Carly teamup isn’t enough to get your dreidel spinning, well, sorry, there’s honestly no hope for you.
POP 2 is available to stream below via Spotify.
More about: A. G. Cook, Alma, Brooke Candy, Carly Rae Jepsen, Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX, CupcakKe, Dorian Electra, Jay Park, Kim Petras, Mykki Blanco, MØ, Pabllo Vittar, SOPHIE, Tommy Cash, Tove Lo
Styles: folk, indie, folktronica
Others: Elliott Smith, Leonard Cohen, a grief-stricken Moby
Outtakes and B-side albums should naturally be approached with incredulity. Typically reserved for die-hard fans looking to glean the slightest amount of insight into the creative process behind the opus from which its tracks are culled, demo collections rarely offer more than a tentative glimpse into the vicissitudes their songs took before making the final cut. They’re often superfluous and almost always indulgent. At any rate, packaging and selling throwaway songs and other odds and ends smacks of avarice on the part of the artist’s record company.
More about: Sufjan Stevens
Because he’s secretly The Grinch™ a grinch, James Whipple just had a wonderfully awful idea: in a fiendish plot to keep Christmas™ The Holidays from coming, the Berlin-based producer known as M.E.S.H. shall endeavor to distract us all by unveiling an EXTRA-CREEPY new video for his latest single “Search. Reveal.”
More about: M.E.S.H.
Looks like everyone has to redo their year-end lists! PC Music’s Hannah Diamond has JUST NOW dropped a new work titled Soon I won’t see you at all. The EP is produced by A. G. Cook and features three songs, “Never Again,” “The Ending,” and “Concrete Angel.” The first two are written by Hannah Diamond and A. G. Cook, while “Concrete Angel” is a rework of a track by Gareth Emery featuring Christina Novelli.
More about: A. G. Cook, Hannah Diamond
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