Boldy James has already put out a bunch of new albums in 2025: Murder During Drug Traffic with RichGains, Permanent Ink with Royal House Recordings, and Conversational Pieces with Real Bad Man, just to name a few. In July the Detroit rapper teamed up with the Montreal producer Nicholas Craven for the album Late To My Own Funeral, and believe it or not, they’re already gearing up for another one together. Although it doesn’t have a release date yet, Boldy and Craven’s new album Criminally Attached is coming soon, and they announced it today with lead single “No Blemishes.”

When we last heard from R.A.P. Ferreira in December, the poetic and elliptical underground rapper was releasing last OUTSTANDING UNDERSTANDING, an album that directly addressed his custody battle with his estranged ex. He’s got another new album on deck, a full-length collaboration with the prolific producer Kenny Segal.

David Byrne and Hayley Williams have been closely aligned lately. Last year Paramore covered “Burning Down The House” as part of the promo campaign for A24’s reissue of the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. Byrne, in turn, covered “Hard Times,” the single from 2017’s After Laughter on which Paramore channeled Talking Heads, and those covers were packaged together for a Record Store Day 7″. More recently, Williams guested on “What Is The Reason For It?” from Byrne’s new solo album Who Is The Sky? Now they’ve got another song together.

Mediocre white guys are trying to become stars. Have you been getting cringeworthy videos of a dude called sombr pushed onto your feed for some reason? Have you been hearing about a guy called Role Model, wondering who the fuck he is? You almost don’t even need to listen to the music to know it’s bland algorithm fodder; it’s so inoffensive that it’s offensive. sombr treats his shows like opportunities to clip-farm. Role Model has a gimmick of inviting a celebrity to be his “Sally” onstage for his unremarkable viral song “Sally, When The Wine Runs Out”; he’s had Olivia Rodrigo, Conan Gray, and many more. There’s an increasing amount of “artists” who seem more interested in being influencers.

Almost exactly one year ago, Chubby And The Gang, the great British punk band that became a solo project, released And Then There Was…, which turned out to be the last of their three albums. Earlier this year, frontman Charlie Manning Walker, otherwise known as Chubby Charles, announced that Chubby And The Gang were no more. But now Chubby is back with a new gang, and they’ve already got music out.

London septet the Orchestra (For Now) are the latest breakout stars of the city’s vaunted Windmill scene, the community orbiting the Brixton venue the Windmill, which has nurtured arty and ambitious indie rock bands like Black Midi, Squid, Shame, and Black Country, New Road. On Halloween, they’ll release their Plan 76 EP. They introduced it with the loud and jarring “Hattrick.” The second single is different.

Pusha T and Malice still talk about the Knitting Factory show. I still talk about it, too. If you were there, then I bet you still talk about it. It was a special night — a moment when you could see potential turn into cold, hard reality. It felt like everyone I knew was in that room that night, like we were all levitating. The Knitting Factory was not necessarily supposed to be the venue for that kind of night. I knew the room well, worked the door there for a few months in 2000. It wasn’t a big room. 400-cap. Tribeca. Rich neighbors calling in noise complaints all the time. It wasn’t the place for the most exciting rap show in the world, until it was.

The Montreal-based singer and producer Ouri will release her new LP Daisy Cutter in a few weeks, and we’ve already posted the title track and the Charlotte Day Wilson collab “Behave !” Now, Ouri has joined forces with the glitchy Swedish producer Oli XL on the new song “Paris,” a deep-memory reverie about the city where she grew up. It’s a forward-thinking dance track with a ton of space, but Ouri’s vocal makes it feel intimate and homespun.

With her recent mixtape Fancy That, PinkPantheress made one of the best albums of the year so far, even if she isn’t calling it an album. This week’s she’s releasing a remix companion album called Fancy Some More? with a very exciting guest list including Bladee, Oklou, Kylie Minogue, Basement Jaxx, JT, Jade, Anitta, Seventeen, Sugababes, Zara Larsson, Ravyn Lenae, Nia Archives, Rachel Chinouriri, Kaytranada, Joe Goddard, DJ Caio Prince, Mochakk Loukeman, Sega Bodega, Groove Armanda, and Kilimanjaro.

After almost literally a year of anticipation, we’re getting awfully close to the release of Sorry’s new album COSPLAY, and man, these singles have been great, huh? Today, to go along with “Waxwing,” “Jetplane,” “Jive,” and “Echoes,” we get “Today Might Be The Hit.”