Arca has announced the release of a limited vinyl box set for the KICK cycle. Titled KICK: The Complete Cycle, the 5xLP vinyl box set will include all five KICK albums, and features exclusive new artwork for KiCk i. The set will be released on May 20 via XL Recordings.
experimental / music news / New Album / New Music / post-club / Reissue
The Museum of Modern Electronic Music (MOMEM) had its long awaited opening in Frankfurt on April 6th following multiple delays. The museum, which was first announced in 2015, looks to celebrate the history and future of electronic music through multiple exhibits and immersive installations. The museum opened with an exhibition
It’s been nearly a week since emerging lo-fi producer Liminka released his latest single, ‘Forgive’ that wraps the listener in a blanket of mellow tones and echoing percussive elements. Since then, it’s been circling our playlists, finding itself at home next to the likes of Bonobo, Massive Attack and Portico
A new music startup called Songfinch recently closed its first round of seed funding with over $2 million raised from investors. Notably, a number of high profile musicians have invested in the startup, including The Weeknd, Quincy Jones, and Doja Cat. Led by Corazon Capital, the seeding round looked to
For a moment, let’s consider the pressures that the music industry can place on a rising artist: the push to create (and be) something totally new and unique that still somehow appeals to the mass public. Anyone who falls flat can disappear into the void: the experimental artists who focus
Universal Music plans to launch an unrecouped advances program for legacy artists to receive royalties without having recouped their initial advance payments. Universal is the last of the major three labels to unveil this type of plan, with Sony and Warner having already laid out similar schemes. Plans for Universal’s
Black Coffee made history at the 2022 Grammy Awards last night after winning the Best Dance / Electronic Music Album category, becoming the first African DJ to win the category and the first African DJ to win a Grammy in history. Black Coffee won for his seventh studio album, Subconsciously
American DJ and producer DVS1 (Zak Khutoretsky) has launched software that aims to bridge the gap between DJ and producer income. It’s long been the case that DJ’s profit far more from the music that they play than the producers who make it. Recognising this gap, DVS1 developed Aslice. The
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Downtempo pop trio GIVVEN have recently released their latest EP, Losing Colours which was written and recorded around the globe and features three cinematic videos filmed in Iceland. Earlier this month, we sat down for an exclusive interview with the band, in which we discussed the title track of the
Downtempo pop / music news / New EP / New Music / Pop Music
Grimes has admitted to being the one responsible for hacking popular indie pop culture and satire blog Hipster Runoff nearly a decade ago. In 2012, the blog infamously went down, with owner and founder Carles reporting that his “server disk has crashed and remote backups were sabotaged,” believing foul play
