Generational pop icon Robyn announces her ninth studio album, Sexistential, which will be released on 27th March 2026. Sexistential is the most ecstatic record that Robyn has ever made, the sound of one of contemporary music’s most influential artists coming home. After the club music meditations of 2018’s Honey, the album features nine, deeply playful pop songs that tie back to her era-defining Body Talk trilogy, designed to feel “like a spaceship coming through the atmosphere at a really high speed and...
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Buck Meek announces his new album, The Mirror, out 27 February, and shares its lead single, ‘Gasoline’. There’s a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, he reveals the uniqueness in the mundane. The Mirror searches for new meaning and the familiar is reframed through Meek’s singular voice. On The Mirror, love, as an idea, is always close – but in its reflection comes an afterimage of the way things could...
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Tyler Ballgame, Rough Trade Records’ astonishingly gifted, infectious crooner shares new single ‘Matter of Taste’ and its accompanying video. This is the latest track to be released from his stunning debut album For the First Time, Again, out January 30th, 2026 and follows earlier album singles ‘I Believe in Love’ and ‘Got a New Car’. A hook-laden rocker, ‘Matter of Taste’ shows Ballgame and his band cutting loose, with what the singer-songwriter calls the...
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Berlin rave renegade Marlon Hoffstadt today steps up with a high voltage reimagining of ‘Dopamine,’ Robyn’s first single in over seven years and one of 2025’s most celebrated pop returns. Fresh off the wave of acclaim surrounding the generational Swedish pop icon’s original, Hoffstadt injects the track with his signature “DJ Daddy Trance” energy, flipping Robyn’s pop euphoria into a riotous, rave-ready anthem. Known for tearing up club conventions and...
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Dry Cleaning share a quieter moment from their upcoming third album Secret Love, out 9 January 2026. The third single ‘Let Me Grow and You’ll See The Fruit’ follows ‘Cruise Ship Designer’ and ‘Hit My Head All Day’ and offers a gentler side to Dry Cleaning. ‘Let Me Grow and You’ll See The Fruit’ was one of the first songs written for Secret Love and is inspired by 60s folk act Pentangle, 2001: A Space Odyssey, ancient Roman poet...
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Brooklyn-based composer and producer Rachika Nayar and London-based musician, composer and producer Danny L Harle today release Azimuth Divergence. The eight track project reimagines Harle’s recent acclaimed ‘Azimuth’ single, featuring vocals from Caroline Polachek, as the source material for each track. Nayar, who’s released two albums (2021’s Our Hands Against The Dusk and 2022’s Heaven Come Crashing), and this year’s collaborative Disiniblud album with Nina Keith, is a distinctive voice in contemporary experimental music: blending ambient, electronic, neoclassical and post-rock.. She uses guitar as...
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Ruthven returns with Precognition, a tight, exploratory three-track EP that marks the beginning of a bold new chapter following last year’s acclaimed debut album Rough & Ready. Having premiered on Apple Music’s New Music Daily Radio with Zane Lowe, the EP as Ruthven concludes a run of UK and European shows, including headline shows and standout festival appearances at Pitchfork Festival Paris and Fifty Lab Brussels. Where Rough & Ready introduced an artist with...
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Fresh off a North American tour supporting I’m With Her, Ye Vagabonds share the second single ‘The Flood’ from their upcoming album, All Tied Together, out Jan 30th, 2026. ‘The Flood’ comes with a video directed by Ellius Grace (watch here) and follows the album’s first single ‘On Sitric Road’ which was accompanied by a live video recorded in Dublin. ‘The Flood’ is an upbeat, fiddle-propelled window into a lively but...
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Robyn and Jamie xx reignite their rich creative partnership. Having previously collaborated on ‘Life’, one of the biggest singles from Jamie xx’s highly-acclaimed and hotly-anticipated 2024 album In Waves, the pair come together for a remix of ‘Dopamine’ – Robyn’s first single in over seven years and one of the year’s most electrifying pop moments. It’s an ultra-rare remix from Jamie – his first in three years – and sees the...
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Dance music maverick Skin On Skin has had a whirlwind few years. Bursting onto the global scene in 2022 with his undeniable club anthem ‘Burn Dem Bridges’ (“it sounds like the future” – Resident Advisor), the South Sudanese-Australian innovator has made his mark in all corners of the world through his full-throttle DJ sets – taking in impromptu b2bs in London with Skrillex and in Ibiza with Kettama, a Madrid takeover with Fred again.., a rapturously received...
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Charlotte Day Wilson releases her latest single ‘High Road’, out now. Known for her singular fusion of contemporary R&B, jazz, and evocative vocal craft, ‘High Road’ begins with a delicate piano line before blooming into an experimental soundscape—layered with soaring, soulful harmonies, pulse-like rhythms, and lyrics that cut with haunting honesty. Following last month’s ‘Selfish’, co-written and co-produced by Saya Gray, Ace G, and Braden Sauder, ‘High Road’ further showcases Wilson’s mastery in reshaping contemporary R&B...
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Out today digitally, It’s Beautiful is a new EP featuring fully reimagined takes of three songs from Water From Your Eyes’ It’s a Beautiful Place. Here guitarist and producer Nate Amos tweaks, twists, and warps the arrangements for ‘Born 2,’ ‘Nights in Armor,’ and ‘Playing Classics,’ dramatically shifting the scenery around and emotional resonance of singer Rachel Brown’s vocal leads. “The new versions of ‘Born 2’ and ‘Nights in Armor’ are actually just closer to how the...
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‘The Man Comes Around’ is a cover of a song by another JC: Johnny Cash, no less! It was featured in The Hack, a TV dramatisation of the phone hacking scandal that led to the closure of The News of the World newspaper back in July 2011. Announced for release on 12″ vinyl, (Limited to 1500 copies) on February 27th 2026, this release is a Rough Trade Exclusive and limited to one per...
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15 15 return with ‘Fāfaru’, the first single from their debut album Mārara, out 6 March 2026. Fresh from a landmark year expanding their universe between London and Paris, supporting Kamasi Washington on his Spring 2025 European tour, performing at COLORS – Tones of Paris in October, joining the Simple Things Festival lineup alongside Keiyaa, Smerz and Florence Sinclair in July, and closing the Fusion Festival main stage after John Maus in August, 15 15 have been non-stop....
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After selling out her first Melbourne date, Naarm-based artist Stella Donnelly has announced a second show at the Corner Hotel on Sunday 1 March 2026. The newly added date comes ahead of Donnelly’s Love and Fortune Tour, which launches in Australia this February before travelling through the UK, Europe and Japan. Please find full tour details and ticket links below. Donnelly also shares the music video for opening single ‘Standing Ovation’, which...
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David Byrne releases a new single ‘T Shirt’. Co-written by Byrne’s longtime friend and collaborator Brian Eno, the song is a classic piece of electro-pop wrapped in lightly humorous, but always earnest, political commentary. The track has become a notable moment and quick fan favorite on Byrne’s latest tour. David Byrne is currently touring North America, celebrating the release of his critically acclaimed new album Who Is The Sky?, Byrne’s...
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