Rapper M.I.A has shared a music video for a new song called Babylon. The track and full video is available exclusively on her website ohmni.com. This follows the announcement that her 2010 mixtape Vicki Leekx will be auctioned as an NFT. Babylon meanwhile is also available as an NFT. M.I.A
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Image: 10:22 Universal Music Group has announced it will launch a ‘supergroup’ band made up of NFT (non-fungible tokens) characters. The major label will be working with creator Jimmy McNelis to turn four of his NFT digital characters into a band called Kingship for their 10:22 label. McNelis’s characters feature
From Grimes going techno to Yaeji trading up her style, we roundup our favourite tracks of the week. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat: Yaeji, OHHYUK – 29 / Year To Year The collaboration between k-house star Yaeji and frontman of Korean four piece Hyukoh is
Image: Artist The first thing to consider about Alice Longyu Gao is the fact that she is injecting some much needed diversity into the hyperpop sphere. Like Namasenda, Gao is challenging what for the most part has been a white dominated space. The origins of the genre being accredited to
Electronic / ep / experimental / hyperpop / New Music
Image: Embassy One If you Google Copenhagen trio WhoMadeWho, you may notice that they’re listed as ‘experimental pop.’ Now, in the current landscape where artists like Lotic are subverting pop tropes left right and centre and where hyperpop has become a legitimate genre, maybe this is not entirely accurate. However,
Image: Incienso We’re not going to lie, this was solely intended to be a review of New York producer Anthony Naples’s latest album, Chameleon. But as fate would have it, lo and behold the arrival of Club Pez, his latest EP. Both are released on his label Incienso. So now
Image: Deadmau5 Deadmau5 featuring Foster The People is not a sentence that anyone may have imagined being written, but stranger things have already happened at the start to this decade, so here we are. To be fair, Hyperlandia actually works entirely in favour of this collaboration. Unlike his previous single
Image: XL Recordings Blawan, AKA Jamie Roberts, is sort of renowned for his disparate, somewhat skeletal modular synth techno. Why they hide their bodies under my garage? Exemplifies this sort of approach, with crunched out beats and loops characterising his sound with a particular kind of analogous decay. In recent
Image by Daniel Sannwald Live Nation and rapper Travis Scott are being sued by an injured audience member from last week’s Astroworld festival, according to Billboard. Also named in the complaint is Scott’s label Cactus Jack Records. Last week Friday, November 5th, saw Scott’s Astroworld Festival end in what officials
IMAGE: MARCUS MOONEN/VIA FLICKR Keyboardist, bassist and member of pioneering acid house band 808 State Andrew “Andy” Barker has died. The Manchester band confirmed Barker’s passing on social media. An Instagram post on Saturday with a photo of Barker included the caption: “After a happy life Andrew Barker experienced a
