Brilliant new work from Yeah Yeah Yeahs
“Spitting Off the Edge of the World”
w/ Perfume Genius
from the forthcoming Cool It Down
out 30 September
on Secretly Canadian
“Decimation (Dis Nation)” is an Emotive Stunner
Uffie Sings Us Back to the Dancefloor with “sophia”
from the forthcoming Sunshine Factory
“sophia”
on Company Records
Mere Tongue to Take Back a Name
Tanya Tagaq’s “Tongues”
Dance! and Ye Be Granted “Protection From Evil”
by Ibibio Sound Machine
feat. Eno Williams
on Merge Records
A Sonic Punchup in Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul’s “It Hit Me”
from the new release Tropical Dancer
“It Hit Me”
out now on DEEWEE / Because Music
“My Boy, My Horse, My Dog,” Featuring Saadet Türköz
Pipilotti Rist’s wonderful exhibition, Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor, is currently on view at The Geffen Contemporary, DTLA, and is a must see! Below is one of the many Rist videos on display in varying contexts. “My Boy, My Horse, My Dog” is in gallery-space ‘Das Zimmer (The Room),’ and viewed on the old television sitting floorside. The MOCA exhibition is on through 6 June, 2022.
New from Nia Archives: the Breakbeating “Luv Like”
from the upcoming EP Forbidden Feelingz
Qué horas son, mi corazón?
Sofia Kourtesis’s “Estación Esperanza”
featuring Manu Chao
the single is out now on Ninja Tune
The Desert Stranglers Take It To The Throat
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Produced by Harvest Recordings
The Smile, in Call to The Bends, Says “You Will Never Work in Television Again”
Featuring Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) & drummer Tom Skinner (Sons of Kemet)
Stutter as Point Zero in the Revolution of Self: JJJJJErome Ellis’s “Loops of Retreat”
from the new release The Clearing
out now on NNA Tapes
A Sonic Key to the Unbound in “Open the Gates”
A Glory That Soars on “I Don’t Live Here Anymore”
The War on Drugs (feat. Lucius)
from the newly released I Don’t Live Here Anymore
Dune
In a galaxy far, far away, a young man in a sea of sand faces a foreboding destiny. The threat of war hangs in the air. At the brink of a crisis, he navigates a feudalistic world with an evil emperor, noble houses and subjugated peoples, a tale right out of mythology and right at home in George Lucas’s brainpan. But this is Dune (2021), baby, Frank Herbert’s science-fiction opus, which is making another run at global box-office domination even as it heads toward controversy about what it and its messianic protagonist signify. [Read more…]
Little Simz’s No-Go-Suffer Groove Pierces Deep on “Point and Kill”
from Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
feat. Obongjayar
Sault’s “Fear” Makes the Pain Real
from Nine
Fear
out now on Forever Living Originals
The Ankle-Bit, Dance-Floor Itch of Sleaford Mod’s “Mork n Mindy”
from Spare Ribs
feat. Billy Nomates
Mork n Mindy
out now on Rough Trade Records
“Post Meridian,” from the Unknown Knowns of the Nameless Stranded
from the Post Meridian EP
Post Meridian
out now on Homage
Titane
Reviewed by A.O. Scott
Alexia is a strip-club dancer in the South of France whose hobby — her compulsion, her kink, her vocation — is murder. As the bodies pile up and the law seems to be closing in, she leaves the house where she lives with her parents and takes on the identity of Adrien Legrand, a boy who went missing many years before.
Having seen a computer-generated image of the teenager Adrien might have grown up to be, Alexia fashions herself into a plausible likeness, cutting her hair short, binding her breasts and smashing her nose against a bathroom sink. The disguise works well enough to convince the boy’s dad, Vincent, the ultra-manly commander of a fire-and-rescue squad. But there is a complication: Alexia is pregnant. The father, as far as we can tell, is a Cadillac with hydraulic suspension and a custom paint job. As the pregnancy progresses, Alexia starts to lactate petroleum. [Read more…]