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Coachella is going all in for its livestream this year. Featured on YouTube, music fans will be able to view up to four stages at once and switch between audio. Many football fans have become familiar with this view thanks to Redzone. It is about to we got this for music festivals. There will be […]
Seven years…that’s the time between Mount Kimbie‘s third album, Love What Survives, and their fourth, The Sunset Violent. During that time, Dominic Maker relocated to Los Angeles, California, where he wrote for artists including James Blake, Travis Scott, Slowthai, Rosalía, and Jay-Z; meanwhile, Kai Campos, his partner, whom he met at London Southbank university, remained […]
California is taking significant steps toward safer nightlife experiences with a new law that requires bars and nightclubs to provide drug testing devices for patrons’ drinks starting in July. This groundbreaking initiative aims to drastically reduce drink spiking incidents, ensuring that individuals can enjoy their night out with an added layer of protection. California’s move […]
Kamasi Washington will release a new album on Young. Where Washington’s previous albums dealt with cosmic ideas and existential concepts, Fearless Movement focuses in on the everyday, “an exploration of life on earth.” we’re told. This change in scope is due in large part to the birth of Washington’s first child a few years ago. […]
Machinedrum (a.k.a Travis Stewart) will release a new album on Ninja Tune. Stewart’s journey to making 3FOR82 began, fittingly, on March 4 last year. For his 41st birthday, he ventured out to Joshua Tree National Park, California, to seek clarity and inspiration for a new album. “I’ve been to Joshua Tree many times and I’ve […]
Last month, Seven Davis Jr.—the Texas-born, California-raised singer, songwriter, and DJ-producer—returned with Stranger Than Fiction, a new album. Since 2012, Davis Jr. has put out music on Secret Angels, the label he launched in 2016, but also Classic Music Company and Ninja Tune, which is where he released his debut album, Universes, on which he […]
Mount Kimbie will release their fourth studio album in April. The Sunset Violent, releasing through Warp, picks up where the UK duo’s last studio album, 2017’s Love What Survives left off, marrying modern indie, shoegaze, and electronica. The album was written in California’s Yucca Valley, a scant Western town with a history of alleged UFO […]
Yussef Dayes will release a new live album. The Yussef Dayes Experience (Live from Malibu) features music from his debut solo album, Black Classical Music, released last year on Brownswood Recordings, and more. Across 19 tracks, the album was anchored by Dayes’ distinctive drum licks and Rocco Palladino’s bass. Across eight tracks on Live from […]
Your daily stage lineups for Escape Halloween are here. The 12th installment of Insomniac’s event will take place on Friday, October 27th – Saturday, October 28th at NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, Southern California. New additions this year include a brand-new fifth stage and a stacked lineup of after-parties. Day One On day one, […]
Chicago trio Purelink will release an album on Los Angeles label Peak Oil. Since forming in 2020, the group—which comprises Tommy Paslaski (a.k.a Concave Reflection), Ben Paulson (a.k.a kindtree), and Akeem Asani (a.k.a Millia)—have convened regularly in a shared studio to workshop, swap samples, and hone their collective muse via “the endless possibilities of a […]
Sparkle Division, William Basinski’s electronic lounge-jazz-dance collaboration with Preston Wendel and Gary Thomas Wright, will release a new album on Temporary Residence Limited. Foxy is the group’s second album, following 2020’s To Feel Embraced. More material has followed: an EP called Classified in 2021 and a one-off track “Piccadilly Beast” that came out last December. […]
Rrose is the elusive incarnation of Seth Horvitz, an artist from California, currently based in London. After several years producing glitch-heavy experiments as Sutekh, Horvitz launched Rrose in 2011 with a mysterious EP on Function and Regis’ now decommissioned Sandwell District, which they followed with a string of vinyl releases on their own own Eaux […]
Leaving Laurel have released their second album on Anjunadeep. When the Quiet Comes marks a new chapter for Leaving Laurel after Pierce Fulton, the original band member with Gordon Huntley, passed away following the release of the debut release in 2020. As Huntley discovered recordings laid down by himself and Pierce years prior, he was […]
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