Vince Staples

Cry Baby

Nearly a decade and a half into his career, the Long Beach rapper delivers his most explicit political statement yet

Cry Baby by Vince Staples

Vince Staples’ catalogue has never wanted for visceral moments. In the opening of his 2013 mixtape with Mac Miller (the aptly name Stolen Youth), Staples describes a drive-by in his native Long Beach in his droll, matter-of-fact flow. It’s a familiar vignette, but Staples lingers on the moment longer than others would. 911 don’t respond, nobody does a thing, and his friend is left “on the streets till the sun came up”. It would be disingenuous to describe Staples’ new record as a political pivot. For attuned listeners, Staples’ music has always worked this way,…

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The former Daft Punk man played tracks by Aphex Twin, Tangerine Dream and more in the 75-minute mix

Thomas Bangalter guested on New York-based The Lot Radio yesterday (8 June), and the recording of his DJ set has now been shared online.

Across 75 minutes, the former Daft Punk member played tracks by the likes of Aphex Twin, Tangerine Dream, Sonic Youth, John Carpenter, Flying Lotus, Iannis Xenakis, Burial, Boards Of Canada, Oklou, Nala Sinephro and Richie Hawtin’s Plastikman alias.

Bangalter also played some of his own work in the set, including a piece from his recent score for the ballet Mirage, and a new remix of material from his 2023 orchestral album Mythologies.

The mix for The Lot comes after Bangalter returned to…

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It’s the band’s first for new label home Partisan

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Interpol are releasing a new album, titled This Mirror Weighs A Ton.

Spanning 12 tracks, it comes four years on from previous LP The Other Side Of Make-Believe, and is Interpol’s first for new label home Partisan. The band enlisted Andrew Wyatt, whose other credits include work for Charli xcx and Rosalía, to produce the record.

This Mirror Weighs A Ton expands Interpol’s sonic palette to include strings, woodwinds, acoustic guitar and experimental sound design, according to press materials. The record explores themes of reflection, perception and emotional tension.

Listen to the album’s title track and another cut, ‘See Out Loud’, below.

Partisan will release This Mirror Weighs A Ton on 28…

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It’s the first album to emerge from any of the group since they put out Hot Sauce Committee Part Two in 2011

Beastie Boys’ Mike D has announced his debut solo album, Thank You.

Featuring 13 tracks, it’s the first full-length release to emerge from any of the hip hop group since they put out final album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two in 2011. Its announcement comes off the back of the sharing of recent singles ‘Switch Up’ and ‘What We Got’, as well as a series of small shows that the rapper played in the UK alongside his Mike D 5D backing band.

“It’s been so much fun making this music with people I love and I have grown to really appreciate…

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Kampire, Ecko Bazz and more have joined the bill for the Berlin event this summer

Kampire

Berlin festival Gaswerk Music Days has shared the full music programme for its 2026 edition.

Kampire and Ecko Bazz, both close associates of the Nyege Nyege label and festival collective, are newly confirmed to play the event this summer. There will also be sets from DJ collective Pili Pili Girls; Algerian group Tissilawen; and Afrobeats and dancehall vocalist Jokwiz.

They join the previously announced likes of MC Yallah & Scotch Rolex, Holy Tongue, Burnt Friedman & João Pais Filipe, Rabih Beaini, Azu Tiwaline, and more on the lineup for Gaswerk Music Days.

Taking place across two weekends, the festival will be located at Gaswerksiedlung, a former industrial residential complex…

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It’s the Manchester duo’s first studio album in five years

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Space Afrika have a new album on the way, titled Quiet Storm.

Comprised of 13 tracks, the LP spans elements of trip-hop, jazz, ambient, modern classical and techno. It features contributions from Klein, Tony Njoku, RXKNephew, Kelly Moran and more.

In a statement about the album, Space Afrika’s Joshua Tarelle Reid said: “We challenged ourselves and our own notions of identity, around class and diaspora, and how that is represented across musical genres. We wanted to show the characteristics of our project through the people we chose to work with.

Fellow member Joshua Inyang added: “We’ve stayed true to ourselves. It’s music from the heart. It’s music that has a particular…

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The wide-ranging record covers choral pieces. pipe organ compositions and more

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Sarah Davachi has shared details of a new album, titled The Will Of Tongues.

Taking in 13 pieces across more than two hours of music, the record is described in a press release as Davachi’s “most ambitious” work to date. It features five new solo compositions for historical pipe organs recorded across the USA, Canada and the Netherlands; three choral pieces; a number of interludes for various microtonal ensembles (strings, brass, woodwinds); and a longform chamber piece for string trio, organ and tape.

Davachi performs on organ throughout the record, but is joined by a number of musicians, including Whitney Johnson (viola), Eyvind Kang (viola) and Lucy Railton (cello)….

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A limited-edition bottle of the product will be available to attendees of the band’s last show in Sheffield this October

Cabaret Voltaire have announced an unusual collaboration, with Henderson’s Relish.

They’ve combined on a limited-edition bottle of the infamous Sheffield product, which will be available only to those attending Cabaret Voltaire’s final ever live show at the Sheffield Octagon on 25 October. Collection of the bottles will only be available at the venue itself, with information being sent out to ticket holders on how to secure one for themselves.

Final tickets for the Sheffield show are still available for purchase here.

In October, Cabaret Voltaire announced that their 2026 run of dates, with support from Gazelle Twin, would mark their last ever live shows…

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Kez Whelan gets straight to the point in his latest roundup of newheavy metal, which this month features Converge’s second brilliant LP of 2026, an audacious orchestral recording from Voivod, the latest disappointment from Venom, and much much more

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I’m going to skip the introductions this month and get straight down to business – just like the new EP from Italian grinders Ape Unit, Sticks, which is probably the tightest, most robust demonstration of their madcap fastcore sound yet. Despite how impressively technical the band’s sound is (try wrapping your ears round the fiddly, dissonant riff clusters strewn throughout songs like ‘Toy Boy Division’ or the incendiary ‘Lieutenant Tennent’s’), what immediately strikes you is just how…

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Jude Rogers writes in praise of Olivia Rodrigo and Robert’s Smith’s cross-generational mutual respect and collaboration, a breaking down of the barriers put up by binary poptimism

Robert Smith and Olivia Rodrigo via Instagram

I already knew how bad Olivia Rodrigo had it for Robert Smith from the opening seconds of her video for her latest single. Its title, ‘The Cure’, is an unapologetic fangirl flourish, although the song isn’t about a gang of kohl-loving weirdos from Crawley; instead, it explores the pressures on young women around beauty and love, with Rodrigo cast as a nurse trying to find the “antidote” to her sickness, and defibrillate her heart. 

Before the song starts (with a shivery vocal and melody that you could imagine Smith…

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