“He watched the pale, speed-driven teenagers shiver around the dance floor. Droplets of light sprayed onto their faces and ...

The acid house emperors are back Decius, South London’s incorrigible acid house rogues, have just released their hotly ...

The new year’s sparkle has often run flat, like a drink left on the windowsill and discovered weeks later – with many ideas for new starts or reinventions in the balance. Money – as someone astutely ...

The Weeknd – Hurry Up Tomorrow (XO/Republic) Abel Tesfaye’s possibly-final album as The Weeknd is also his most personal, a whiplash of sex, drugs, and demons set to the most interesting production of ...

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This week: reviews of new albums by new Ty Segall project Freckle, UK funk-jazz legends Cymande, DECIUS (members of Fat White Family & Warmduscher), NYC scuzz-punks Prison, and a reissue of Joe ...

The first time many of us heard about MIKE, we were listening to Earl Sweatshirt’s Some Rap Songs in 2018. On “Nowhere2go,” ...