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Tuesday Early Morning, firefighters in NYC responded to a blaze that engulfed an empty six-story building that was once the popular European-style nightclub Pacha NYC in Hell’s Kitchen. The nightclub was a top rated venue for a decade before shutting down in 2016, and up until 2020, the building hosted a haunted house. Fire at […]
Curses will release a new album later this month. Known for making dark, romantic, cinematic new wave, Curses, real name Luca Venezia, has previously released two full length albums on Dischi Autunno—the latest, Incarnadine, coming in 2022. Another Heaven, his new album, lands on synth label Italians Do It Better, and it’s once again soaked […]
New York City has long remained the place to be to celebrate New Year’s Eve. While some flock to Times Square and the iconic Ball Drop ceremony, there’s plenty of other avenues to ring in the new year. And one of those tempting options for the end of 2024 is now scheduled to happen at […]
Kayper—real name Kaajal Bakrania—was born in Croydon, South London and raised in a family of DJ-producers. During the early 2000s, while still at university studying Music Technology, she drew inspiration from Nookie, her cousin and a pioneer in the UK’s jungle and drum & bass community, and she quickly gained recognition for her exceptional skills […]
Soela—the DJ-production alias of Elina Shorokhova, a Russia-born Berlin-based pianist and vocalist—will release a new album on Francis Harris‘ Scissor and Thread. Having released material on such labels including Kompakt, Lawrence‘s Dial, and Shall Not Fade, Shorokhova joins the ranks of the Brooklyn, New York label for this “exquisite album,” we’re told. Across Dark Portrait, […]
Bonobo has shared a new track through Ninja Tune. On “Expander,” the British artist deftly weaves organic vocals and instrumentation with peak-time dancefloor sensibilities. The track is a staple at his OUTLIER sets, an event series he curates and DJs. The track follows 2022 singles “Defender,” “ATK,” and the New York disco-inspired EP with Totally […]
Pacific Rhythm has released a new album from ZG, a collaborative effort from Zansika Lachhani and Grant (a.k.a Tony from Frank & Tony). Out Of The Unknown is the followup to the duo’s first self-titled LP that landed back on New York label Scissor and Thread in 2022. Over the course of seven tracks, ZG […]
Nicolás Jaar‘s Other People label has shared the debut album of Solpara, the Lebanese-American live act and DJ-producer. Born in New York City, Solpara started DJing in the late ’00s when he was living in Montréal, Canada, and he later co-founded the Booma Collective, a label collective and event series focused on experimental techno, ambient, […]
LSDXOXO, real name RJ Glasgow, will release his debut album in September. DOGMA consolidates Glasgow’s sound after a period of “healing and self-discovery,” we’re told. Whereas his last release—2023’s Delusions of Grandeur (D.O.G.) EP—was created as a communication between DJ and dancefloor, DOGMA marks a shift towards the singer-songwriter and live show process. Across 11 […]
This week’s podcast comes from Shcaa, the French composer and guitarist otherwise known as Sacha Khalifé. Khalifé started music production in high school, while living in Tunisia. He had been playing guitar for a couple of years and was listening to a mixture of ’60s rock and British IDM, and eventually Burial. At the age […]
Miami-raised, New York-based singer, producer, and DJ Tama Gucci will release his debut album in August, via Sinderlyn. Notes to Self follows 2017’s Out of Order mixtape and 2019’s Fantasy and 2021’s Almost Blue EPs—all of which have allowed him to steadily build his sound and cultivate his artistic voice. With the album he has […]
Christian AB will release his debut album on Ryan Elliott’s Faith Beat imprint. Nu Life is inspired by Christian AB’s early days of collecting music and speaks for “the sounds I have been passionate about for the past decade and a half,” he says. The album delivers a raw yet simple and minimalist approach to […]
Mau P has been on a tear the last year. This September, the global trailblazer returns to New York City at Under The K Bridge for another all-night-long show under his Baddest Behaviour party concept. After his NY debut at Knockdown Center in February, Baddest Behaviour quickly garnered a reputation and a huge following in […]
Beginning in 2012, Brooklyn-based duo Francis Harris and Anthony Collins (a.k.a Grant)—who have both released solo XLR8R podcasts—have released a stack of quality house records as Frank & Tony, a collaborative projects that serve homage to the belief that house music continues to bring communities together from its earliest days until the present. Their first […]
Satoshi Tomiie and Naotake Gunji have announced a forthcoming EP that captures the duo’s recent ‘A_A’ project and live show in New York, which took place recently at the Fridman Gallery in Manhattan. A_A is a project that seeks to explore ‘the tension between floor-centric electronic music and improvised sound/audio performance, where found sounds and […]
The work of Khalil is heavily influenced by the multicultural fabric of London’s nightlife. His sets weave everything from hip-hop and R&B to soul, dancehall, and afro-beats, and they play between the lines of the expected and unexpected, bridging the old and the new, to create a distinct style and sound of his own. It’s […]