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Roll right into the weekend with this gorgeous, easy, plainspoken Tonight Show performance by the Brooklyn trio Wet (plus an extra homie playing drums). Their new album Don’t You comes out in a week, and “Weak” is one of the best tracks on it: as with all their best stuff, it’s a lucid, almost country melody over an…

“Pink fur got Nori dressing like Cam” is obviously the best line of this track on listens 1-10, and despite it, Kanye sounds less like a dad here than on any other tracks he’s teased from SWISH, out February 11, so far. “No More Parties in L.A.” is the fruit of a My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy-era session, and…

Erykah Badu is as musically omnivorous as the best of ‘em, not just writing, creating, producing and recording songs but DJing them, too, under her turntables moniker DJ Low Down Loretta Brown. As another feather in her cap for this prolific streak she’s been having of late, she went on Zane Lowe’s Beats show right…

For every former emo teen, there is an individual emo revival. A long drive, a 1975 track, a screenshot of literally any scene from the OC: it can come out of nowhere, and there’s no predicting what will plunge you back into the days when you loved journals and fingerblasting and nobody ever washed their jeans.

Perfectly encapsulating how I feel every time I step into the 99-cent store by my crib, Santigold’s new album art is a ziploc’d bag of her surrounded by many plastic items both essential and non-.

It should not come as a surprise that Rashida Jones is a talented singer, even though the actors-singing genre is generally quite bleak. It’s not even that her pops is Quincy Jones, one of the most important producers in America and the world—just because your dad produced Thriller doesn’t guarantee you’ll be born…

Here’s what it would sound like if SOHN, Drake and Phoenix had a threesome on a big pile of sequins, i.e. Very Tight.

Following the success of “Lean On,” the MØ/Major Lazer/DJ Snake joint that became the most globally streamed song of the summer on Spotify—the Danish singer-songwriter’s paired up with Diplo once more for a new track, called “Kamikaze.” Via Pitchfork, it just premiered on Annie Mac.

LA-based singer-songwriter Phoebe Ryan has a voice like cotton candy: you might remember it from her A/B cover of “Ignition”/“Do You,” or from this debut single Mine, an ardent, blissed-out earworm whose group hug of a chorus is balanced out by the misty wistfulness that sharpens the verse. “Mine” sounds like candy…

Watch out for Christine and the Queens, who could be the first big French pop crossover artist in a minute. There’s a clean, playful insouciance suffusing her HAIM-esque sound that has kept me tracking her from her EP this spring to her forthcoming US debut album, and now, she’s dropped this new track with the…

So, I heard that Miley Cyrus dropped a 23-track Soundcloud album inspired by that one time Wayne Coyne was her dog or something, and I just can’t wait to get to it—the whole thing doesn’t sound exhausting in the slightest—but first let me sneak in 15-20 listens of this Spanish remix of Drake’s terrific sadboy shuffle…

One of the most unnervingly multi-talented, interesting new artists working right now lives in Flint, Michigan, and works a day job at Planned Parenthood. If you’ve ever listened to Tunde Olaniran, you know what I’m saying—it sounds like you’re listening to 15 different artists flex their particular gifts at once.…

I’ll spare you the “it me” jokes: this is a real earworm, and if a Lana Del Rey song called “High By The Beach” appeals to you in theory, then it’s high-by-the-beach time you got involved. Tighter, plainer, more melodically dynamic and more aesthetically coherent than anything Lana Del Rey’s released off her…

What is it about a chainlink fence that connotes the forbidden? Besides, you know, prison. From Prince and Apollonia to a recent (hilarious) episode of Dance Moms, there’s just something classically tantalizing and bad-girl about vamping about in front of one.

Briana Marela is a newcomer to the atmospheric pop landscape, but she’s clearly nailed down the most important rule of the game: record your album in Iceland.

It’s taken me a strong 20 minutes to finish this first sentence because I keep getting up from my desk to dance. New from Calvin Harris and London trio Disciples—who I’d guess are responsible for a good amount of the subtlety in this track (the vocal, apparently, is Norwegian songwriter Ina Wroldsen)—”How Deep Is Your…

Premiered on WNYU’s Beats in Space radio, here is a great remix of one of the best songs on one of the best albums of the year, from the quietly excellent Barcelona DJ/producer John Talabot. I love the original “Loud Places” for its sense of synthesis—at first, the heartbeat pushing the track forward is barely…

Alessia Cara is going to be a star. You can hear the 18-year-old Def Jam signee flex quietly in her first single “Here,” a track that drags and flutters like Amy Winehouse in a haze of suburban innocence; Alessia’s got a preternatural sense of a beat’s interstices and pockets, and a voice that’s all rough, silvery,…

Diplo and Skrillex are having a banger summer, both individually (Major Lazer’s “Lean On”; Skrillex and Katie Couric’s “Untitled”) and together as Jack Ü. “Where Are Ü Now,” their chart-topping dance jam with Biebs, rides on the strength of Biebs’ lithe falsetto and a melancholy squiggle of synths; in the new video,…