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.”

Danger Mouse and Black Thought last collaborated for the 2022 album Cheat Codes. The longtime friends are joining forces again today for a new track called “Up” with British singer Rag’n’Bone Man.

It’s been a few years since Weird Nightmare last released his eponymous debut on Sub Pop. Now, Alex Edkins is sharing “Forever Elsewhere,” his first new music since his band METZ announced an indefinite hiatus.

This guy Sessa is bringing Tropicália back. The São Paulo-based singer-songwriter born Sergio Sayeg announced his new album Pequena Vertigem de Amor last month with the release of lead single “Vale A Pena.” This week he’s followed it up with another advance track.

Chicago-born R&B singer Ravyn Lenae recently graduated from cult stardom to actual stardom, as her 2024 single “Love Me Not” caught fire on TikTok, climbing as high as #5 on the Hot 100. (It’s #9 this week, at least until all the Taylor Swift numbers come in.) These days, Lenae is a big enough deal to get Donald Glover to leave his house on a Monday night.

Last month, country-rock superstar Zach Bryan played the largest ticketed concert in US history — more than 112,000 fans crammed into Michigan Stadium. Bryan, never known as a particularly political artist, is among the most popular musicians in the country right now, and he has irked the Department of Homeland Security by singing anti-ICE lyrics on a song that hasn’t even been released yet.

Tame Impala’s new album Deadbeat arrives next week, and Kevin Parker has scored his first Billboard Hot 100 hit with the latest single “Dracula.” Today, Fcukers were announced as openers for his North American tour this fall.