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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 […]

This week’s XLR8R podcast comes from Sean Patrick, the Los Angeles DJ-producer and owner of Willis Show Bar in Detroit. Patrick began DJing at clubs right after he left school, more than 20 years ago, first spinning sets of post-punk, new wave, and industrial. But over time, his sound has increasingly shifted towards house and […]

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 […]

Lee Burridge‘s All Day I Dream events vehicle has announced details of a 2024 world tour, taking in locations such as New York, London, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Dubai and a myriad of dates in Ibiza. The first date in the tour is Mexico City, on 20 April, followed by stops in Dubai on April 27 […]

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 […]

Kelly Moran will release a new album next month on Warp. Moves in the Field moves away from the prepared piano techniques which defined Moran’s earlier works like 2017’s Bloodroot and her 2018 Warp debut, Ultraviolet. Instead, Moran “returns to her roots” using the natural sound of an acoustic piano. We’re told to expect a […]

Frank & Tony, the collaboration of Francis Harris and Anthony Collins, will return with their first album in a decade on Scissor and Thread. Frank & Tony, based in Brooklyn, New York and Biarritz, France, respectively, released their last full-length record, You Go Girl, in 2014. Across nine new tracks, they intend to remind listeners […]

Anthony Collins‘ and Francis Harris‘ Scissor and Thread will release a new EP from Will Long. Will Long is an American artist who curates and manages the label Two Acorns. He has been producing music since 2005, in various forms under his own name for DJ Sprinkles’ Comatonse Recordings, and as Celer for his own […]

Towards the end of last year, AshTreJinkins—the Fresno, Los Angeles beat-maker, producer, and rapper—released IT’S TRASH NOW on the mighty Leaving Records. It’s an album of lo-fi, gritty jams but it’s also “a screed, a manifesto, a series of abstracted diary entries, and/or a catalog of feelings experienced in half-remembered dreams.” It’s the latest evolution […]

Marco Shuttle will release a new EP next month. MSP01 is the Italian DJ-producer’s first release on MSP, short for Marco Shuttle Productions, a new platform for his more dancefloor-oriented productions. It comes after a relatively long break following more downtempo and abstract endeavours on his album on Incienso. For more information on Marco Shuttle, […]

SiriusXM is being sued by the New York Attorney General for the ‘burdensome‘ process it requires to cancel subscriptions. In a complaint filed Wednesday, December 20th, the Attorney General Letitia James’ office stated SiriusXM ‘deliberately wastes its subscribers’ time‘ when customers try to cancel, requiring alleged phone conversations with a live agent and long periods of […]

The intention of DJ Tara, a resident of New York, is too “amplify artists and uplift the crowds,” she says—through a collage of soulful sounds. She came into music through her childhood, learning from her father, and in particular she fell in love with hip-hop. But through party promoting she decided she wanted to try […]

Sean La’Brooy is an Australian musician based in New York, perhaps best known for his work as part of the duo Albrecht La’Brooy—a collaboration with Alex Albrecht. Aiming to showcase “the gentle side of electronic music down under,” the pair have been putting out a bewitching hybrid of techno, house, ambient, experimental, and jazz for […]

Giulia Fournier-Mercadante, better known as GiGi FM, is a French-Italian DJ-producer who was raised in Paris but moved to New York during her teenage years after being given a scholarship by Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre. But she made her name as a fixture of South-London’s close-knit music community, DJing at the city’s squat parties as […]

Kelly Moran will release her first new music in five years. Using a programmable Yamaha player piano known as the disklavier, on Vesela Moran breaks from the disklavier’s technical potential in favor of “recreating the humanity of her own playing,” we’re told. The release is inspired by the devastation of heartbreak and Moran’s desire to […]

Hip hop recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, and the genre owes a great deal to producers like Man Parrish, whose electro beats helped soundtrack the New York scene of the early 80s.  With tracks such as Hip Hop Be Bop (Don’t Stop) and Boogie Down Bronx, Parrish was an early pioneer of the urban sound […]

Sepehr, real name Sepehr Alimagham, will release a new album on Garmo, a sub-label of Canada’s NAFF. Pomegranate Skies explores sonic themes of heaven and hell, dualities, split identities, and chaos. The music is a reflection of “the ever-constant existential chaos in his mind,” we’re told, reflecting a musical journey through all the different influences […]

Artists including Nina Kraviz, Mochakk, Pan-Pot, Reinier Zonneveld (live), Paula Temple and Mink have been confirmed to appear at Time Warp’s sixth US edition, taking place at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on 17 and 18 November. The event will also see a number of back-to-back performances, including Joseph Capriati b2b with Vintage Culture and Ilario […]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams suggested the city will take action against the organizers of the Electric Zoo music festival. As you surely know, Labor Day weekend was a pretty hectic one for the NYC festival. It all started on Friday, with the cancellation of the whole first day due to supply chain disruptions […]