This week's playlist includes new music by Blur, Róisín Murphy, Genesis Owusu, Girl Ray, Julie Byrne, Bad Bunny, Morgan Wade, Lord Huron, Kaytraminé (ft. Freddie Gibbs), Mandy Indiana, and more.
Kieran Hebden has steadily been releasing one-off tracks the last few months, and he's gearing up for a show with Floating Points and Jamie xx at Forest Hills Stadium next month.
Additions include Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) + Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Paal Nilssen-Love (The Thing) + Arto Lindsay, Ikue Mori, Marc Ribot, Yuka C. Honda (Cibo Matto), and more.
Syria's Omar Souleyman, now in Europe for more shows, has been keeping busy around the world and in NYC. Most recently he visited the Big Apple for CMJ and to promote his new Kieran Hebden-produced album (out today), and also recently to film parts of his first-ever video, which you can watch along with another set of pictures from the BrooklynVegan CMJ show he played, below...
by Andrew Frisicano
Laurie w/ the dogs in Australia (more by Roberta W.B.)Some in the audience howled with glee, others stood on trembling legs and a few drooled in delight as famed performance artist Laurie Anderson debuted her original "Music for Dogs" composition outside the Sydney Opera House on Saturday ...