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Before they shaped the future of music, and before they led the indispensable label that housed this sea-changing output, PC Music’s A.G. Cook and Danny L Harle were just two British kids—“Dux Kidz,” as they called themselves—who wanted to have fun. Their 2012 output under the “Dux” name ranged from happy-go-lucky pop to artfully disfigured hip-hop and even impressionistic classical music. All of these tracks featured commercial instrumentation pulled from romplers, MIDI banks, and sample CDs—an unabashed embrace of sounds once considered tacky and undesirable. Why make an honest attempt at distinguished music with such cheeky components? Because that sort…

Don’t let the delicious, salty-sweet mitarashi dango on the cover fool you; Foodman’s HIKARIGASASHIKOMU is one of the darkest albums to emerge from the world of footwork since Jana Rush’s Painful Enlightenment. On his latest Hyperdub release, the Japanese producer born Takahide Higuchi sings more than on previous records but tortures his voice through a gauntlet of pitch-shifter effects. HIKARIGASASHIKOMU is presented as an elaboration on 2023’s Uchigawa Tankentai EP, made during a difficult period in Higuchi’s life, and also includes that record’s most deranged track, “Hoso Michi”; Higuchi frames this album as a more hopeful sequel, but the lyrics,…

I’ve had a lot of fun with my friends this year trying to read Picture’s track titles aloud. Uuuuuuuu is Dane Natal Zaks’ second double-12″ release for Short Span this year, and maintains the odd naming conventions from Eeeeeee in February. How do you pronounce something like “Quuuuuuu”? Some people opt for a hard, consonantal attack and let the vowel trail off at an arbitrary length; others don’t bother with the durational exercise and just clip it to one word, like “queue”; I typically spell each letter in sequence, pausing to make sure I’ve counted correctly (and usually giggling by…

Born in Capri on July 27, 1939 like Giuseppe Faiella, Peppino of Capri for over sixty years he was the musician who brought Neapolitan songs into American rock and roll without losing their identity. Singer, pianist, author of around five hundred compositions, he holds with Milva, Toto Cutugno and Al Bano the record of fifteen participations in the Sanremo Festival, won twice. He died in his island villa on 11 July 2026, aged 86, after a long illness. The boy who played for the American soldiers The family were musicians: the grandfather played in the island band, his father Bernardo…

A Brooklyn street has a new name courtesy of one of the city’s most esteemed rappers: Wu-Tang Clan’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard. During a ceremony held today (July 26) with the late MCs friends, family, and a group of local officials, Putnam Avenue in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood was co-named ODB Jones Way in honor of the influential group’s co-founder.Although Ol’ Dirty Bastard, real name Russell Tyrone Jones, was born and raised in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood, his connection to Bed-Stuy runs deep. At the ceremony, the rapper’s eldest brother, Ramsay Jones, told New York photographer Howie Weiss that the street sign…

Photo by Andrea Ripamonti The 2026 edition of the Magnolia Stone Festthe stoner, doom and heavy-psych marathon that populated the summer at the Circolo Magnolia in Segrate. The event, born from the collaboration between Hardstaff Booking And SoloMacellorecorded a solid response from the rock community, managing to attract many fans to the scene. Despite an uncertain weather, also characterized by two brief showers lasting less than ten minutes that dampened the afternoon, the public responded with attendance, confirming their attachment to one of the most sectoral open-air events of the Milanese summer. The story of the concerts The ladder slipped…

Newport Folk Festival 2026 kicked off its weekend-long run of folk musicians and figures across rock, hip-hop, and beyond doing stripped-down sets. Friday night’s headliner was billed as Hayley Williams & Friends; sure enough, the Paramore singer-songwriter bring out a star-studded list of pals to warrant that name, including Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman, Jenny Lewis, Jack Antonoff, Lucy Dacus, and many more. Watch videos from Williams’ set below.After opening with the title track from her new solo album Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, Williams played a number of other tracks from the album with various guest: Hartzman came out for…

Michael Stipe has a new song out today, but you won’t be able to find it on major DSPs. The R.E.M. frontman just released the track “Hum Desiderata” exclusively through Joyfully Waiting, a website for sound exhibitions which gather multi-disciplinary works that “mutually enrich each other,” per an About page. Check the song out for yourself here.“Hum Desiderata” pairs an element from Stipe’s 2023 installation at ICA Milan—a recording of him reciting Max Ehrmann’s poem “Desiderata”—with an instrumental version of a still-unreleased track, “Hum,” from his forthcoming debut solo album. The song was written and produced with Andy Lemaster; additional…

Snayx have shared their huge new single ‘Nice Day 4 It’, described by the band as “a summer song, but lost in its own melancholy” – check it out below. The track marks the beginning of a new era for the Brighton alt-punk trio and is their first release through new label Nettwerk Music Group. Built around a euphoric, festival-ready chorus, ‘Nice Day 4 It’ finds the group pairing their typically abrasive riffs with a more melodic sound, while exploring burnout and the appeal of surrendering to chaos. “It’s a summer song, but lost in its own melancholy, in its own weird…

Barely three days after dropping Music, Fashion, Film, her highly anticipated follow-up to Brat, Charli XCX is cutting to the chase by releasing the B-sides for her new LP exclusively on iTunes. There are three new songs in total—“I Keep on Thinking Bout You Every Single Day and Night,” “Playboy Bunny,” and “If You Take Away the Music Then What Has She Got?”—and each one comes with a black-and-white music video, keeping in line with the album’s visual themes.On her private Instagram, Charli XCX explained why she chose to release these songs now, writing, “I made b sides for each…