30 May 2025
Verraco – aka JP López – releases his new EP, Basic Maneuvers, his debut on XL’s iconic house bag series, out now. Arriving one year on from his critically acclaimed breakthrough EP Breathe…Godspeed, Basic Maneuvers signals the next step in Verraco’s cross-cultural sonic evolution; a sound where South American dembow rhythms collide with the maximalist basslines of UK soundsystem culture, meticulous IDM sound design, and the intensity and precision of techno….
30 May 2025
Last week Pavement made their debut on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to perform ‘Harness Your Hopes’, the group’s b-side-cum-streaming-smash, now officially certified as an RIAA gold record. Director Alex Ross Perry’s film PAVEMENTS, currently screening in select theatres, has been met with confusion, confoundment, and ultimately high praise from critics. Today, Pavement release the PAVEMENTS soundtrack album digitally with a physical edition to follow at a later date….
30 May 2025
Unessential Oils releases The Purest of Oils, an instrumental edition of Warren Spicer’s acclaimed 2024 album, Unessential Oils – available digitally everywhere from May 30. Stripped of the vocals, this instrumental version of Unessential Oils brings the project’s influences to the forefront, blending jazz, folk, Tropicalía, and ambient textures to create a medative soundscape. Conceived entirely whilst bathing, the music flows with easy intimacy – fluid, spacious and deeply personal….
29 May 2025
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of In Colour – Jamie xx’s landmark 2015 debut album – the London-based music, producer and DJ announces a limited-edition picture disc version of the LP. Featuring the album’s iconic artwork directly on the vinyl, the In Colour (10th Anniversary Edition) is available to pre-order now and will ship on 14th November. Originally released on 29th May 2015, In Colour quickly established itself as a…
28 May 2025
Planet Rami releases his latest single ‘Mother Eye’. The captivating alt-pop track is about those moments when you’re being thrown around by the universe – whether that be through failed loves, friendships, or jobs – and the only balm can be comfort from your mother. Written with ARIA nominated record producer, composer, mixer and songwriter Tony Buchen. “When I wrote this track, I was going through some major changes in…
23 May 2025
“‘Love’ is a word I was unable to say until I was approaching 40,” explains Jarvis Cocker. “I listened to love songs all the time but couldn’t use the word in real life. The words to this song are me having a word with myself about this state of affairs. I gave myself a real talking-to. I have now learnt how to say it whilst keeping a straight face. ‘You’ve…
23 May 2025
“The Sophs arrived out of the great blue yonder,” says Rough Trade co-founders Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee of the label’s newest signing, LA six-piece The Sophs. The band’s brutal honesty, flamingly intrusive thoughts, and broad genre-spreading caught their attention immediately. Rough Trade heard the sort of creativity and variety — and “don’t expect me to act pretty” sentiment — that could get The Sophs — including frontman Ethan Ramon, Sam Yuh (keyboards), Austin Parker Jones (electric guitar), Seth Smades (acoustic guitar), Devin Russ (drums), and Cole Bobbitt (bass) — a slot…
23 May 2025
Toronto-based producer, film composer, and author Meg Remy anticipates her intuitive and adventurous U.S. Girls album, Scratch It (out 20 June) with a new single ‘Like James Said’, an ELO-styled nugget of AM gold and nod to James Brown about the healing power of dancing alone. Remy’s own lyrical response to Brown’s ‘Get Up Offa That Thing’, the track showcases her great — and characteristically tragicomic — phrasing, notably on…
16 May 2025
Queens of the Stone Age will unveil the cinematic realisation of a dream with the June 6 premiere of Alive in the Catacombs, an audiovisual document of the band’s long-rumoured performance in the tunnels of the famed Catacombs of Paris. Filmed and recorded in July 2024, Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs captures QOTSA as you’ve never seen or heard them before. This utterly unique once in…
16 May 2025
Tune-Yards, the dynamic duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, have released their new album Better Dreaming. The final single ‘How Big Is The Rainbow’ is accompanied by a music video featuring comedian and actress, Star Amerasu, and directed by Dominic Mercurio. Merrill shares “The title lyric came out in a flash, and felt more sincere than I’ve ever been lyrically, maybe. But in this day and age, there is no…
15 May 2025
Arca returns with a new double-sided single, ‘Puta / Sola’. While each track exists in its own distinct sonic world, they are released together to symbolise the complementary force of the liminal, the beauty in androgyny, and integration of both masculine and feminine energies that can harmonise in each person. It is a gesture in response to dualistic thinking – spanning the spectrum between binaries – a quantum entanglement between…
14 May 2025
Standing On The Corner returns to give birth to a new single ‘Baby’, along with accompanying B-Side ‘Friends 2day Enemies 2morrow’ and one piece of poetry entitled ‘R U Scared?’. A limited edition 7” vinyl is available via standingonthecorner.com and the XL Recordings webstore. Hand-drawn white label 7” with risograph artwork print in clear plastic sleeve. Standing On The Corner is an Earth-based Art Ensemble founded in 2016 by Shamel Cee Mystery,…
9 May 2025
On August 22nd 2025, Baltimore singer-songwriter and producer Nourished By Time will release his highly anticipated new album The Passionate Ones. Crafted between Baltimore, London, and NYC, The Passionate Ones is a sermon, a twelve-track catharsis, howled from the underbelly of late-stage capitalism, a blueprint for building your own altar in the ruins of the American Dream. The project launches today with ‘Max Potential,’ a track revealing a soul unready…
9 May 2025
One year on from the release of his breakthrough EP Breathe…Godspeed, Verraco – aka JP López – returns to announce Basic Maneuvers, his debut for XL Recordings that is set to be released on Thursday, 29 May 2025 via the label’s iconic house bag series. Basic Maneuvers began in his birthplace of Medellín with the project’s title track and evolved over several months as the TraTraTrax label-head relocated to Bogotá, where…
8 May 2025
Rough Trade Records is thrilled to announce their newest signing, LA via Rhode Island crooner Tyler Ballgame. Renowned for his live shows, Tyler’s music is built on strong melodic hooks and draws subtle inspiration from the 60s and 70s, blending nostalgia and undeniable songcraft. His voice truly sets him apart – Rough Trade Records’ co-managing directors Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee say “Hearing Tyler Ballgame sing just reminds us of…
8 May 2025
Lifeguard release a new single ‘Under Your Reach.’ It’s among the band’s hardest-hitting tracks to date, expertly blending their experimental and pop-leaning impulses. Gritty drones and dub-inflected bass give way to a laser beam riff, with guitarists Kai Slater and Asher Case delivering the vocal in loose harmony. The song is drawn from the Chicago-based trio’s forthcoming debut album, Ripped and Torn, out June 6th. Watch the video below! Recorded…
Out now: Queens of the Stone Age – Alive In The Catacombs audio release
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Announced: David Byrne – Who Is The Sky? + ‘Everybody Laughs’
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Announced: Jamaica Moana – BUD & DENI EP + ‘LIVIN’ OUT WEST’
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Introducing: John Maus
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Watch: Kim Gordon – ‘BYE BYE 25!’
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Announced: Mechatok – Wide Awake + ‘Expression On Your Face’
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Announced: The Barr Brothers – Let it Hiss
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Listen: 15 15 – ‘āfa’
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Out now: Queens of the Stone Age – Alive In The Catacombs
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Out now: Pulp – More
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Out now: Lifeguard – Ripped and Torn
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Announced: Big Thief – Double Infinity + ‘Incomprehensible’
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