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Niontay Announces New Mixtape Soulja Hate Repellant: Hear “100days100nights”

The Florida-born, Brooklyn-based rapper Niontay has become an underground staple in recent years, and he’s working fast. Earlier this year, Niontay released his album Fada<3of$. Before 2025 is out, he’ll follow that album with Soulja Hate Repellant, a new mixtape that’ll feature collaborations with Earl Sweatshirt, Lerado Khalil, and Sunny. It’s also got a song…

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Xiu Xiu Announce Covers Album Feat. Songs By Robyn, GloRilla, Talking Heads, & More

Xiu Xiu are people of taste. This is obvious based on their decades of brilliant, provocative musical output, but also based on their selection of covers. Songs like New Order’s “Ceremony” and David Bowie and Queen’s “Under Pressure” are sprinkled throughout their catalog, and they’ve released full-length tributes to Nina Simone and the music of…

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Amanda Seyfried & Daniel Blumberg – “Clothed By The Sun”

Amanda Seyfried can sing. That’s not her main occupation. She’s a movie star. But Seyfried’s movie stardom has offered her a few opportunities to show what she can do musically. She was in Mamma Mia, so that’s a big one. As a guest on The Tonight Show earlier this year, she brought out a dulcimer…

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Vitesse X – “Memori”

New York electronic producer Vitesse X shared her sophomore album This Infinite in October 2024; a few months later, one of her creative heroes, David Lynch, died. That fragile line between life and death is one of the inspirations behind “Memori,” Vitesse X’s very good new single out today. “Memori” is mostly about death, but…

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V.V. Lightbody – “Best Problem”

Chicago-based Vivian McConnell plays music under the name V.V. Lightbody. Today she’s released “Best Problem,” a lovely new single steeped in an easygoing melancholia. Over top of the track’s midtempo soft-rock groove, McConnell addresses an unnamed character: “Is it not the best problem to have? Everyone wants to be with you.” It’s sort of a…

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TOLEDO – “Nothing Yet”

The first few lines of New York indie-pop duo TOLEDO’s new song “Nothing Yet” are like the final scene of an indie film: “Driving in your car with a busted lip/ Two cracked knees and my left hand bit/ I cant tell if this is it.” We never get the record-scratch “I bet you’re wondering how I got here” moment, but the whole song works on that sense of confused desperation.

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Charlotte Day Wilson – “High Road”

Charlotte Day Wilson appears to be inching toward a new album. Last month the Toronto R&B singer dropped the svelte single “Selfish” upon us. She’s followed up that electronically infused jam today with another new song. “High Road” trades out the uptempo effervescence of the prior track in favor of lush, jazzy midtempo splendor, but…

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Watch The Trailer For Mother Mary, Pop-Star Thriller Featuring Anne Hathaway And New Charli XCX Music

Hey, you want to see Anne Hathaway singing a song that Charli XCX wrote specifically for her? Sure you do! That is absolutely something you want to see! I’m pretty sure that’s what happens in the trailer for Mother Mary, the forthcoming A24-produced pop-star thriller from director David Lowery. (This is the David Lowery who made The Green Knight and The Old Man & The Gun, not the David Lowery from Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven.)

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