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Discover Blogly is The FADER's curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Bas' We Only Talk About Real Shit When We’re Fucked Up, YTB Fatt's Foxes Only, Wishy's Paradise EP, and more.

Last week, Pioneer Works — a hulking warehouse in industrial Red Hook turned concert venue, gallery, and co-working artist space — held an experimental music exhibition, hosting five sets from nine titans of the form. Headlined by Kali Malone and William Basinski, respectively, the two nights of sound presented radically different conceptions of the drone: the sustained tone that is one of music’s most ancient forms (along with the drum beat) but has been a consistent feature of its avant garde for the better part of a century.

Discover Blogly is The FADER's curated roundup of our favorite new music discoveries.

Lucinda Chua has shared a surprise EP called Reclaiming the Rose, her first follow-up to her debut studio album, March’s YIAN. The three-track tape follows its predecessor’s glacial, haunting aesthetic, adding spoken-word poetry to the London artist’s already-rich palette.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Nicki MInaj's Pink Friday 2, Vayda's Forrest Gump, Car Seat Headrest's Live From The Masquerade, and more.

The organizers of the 2024 Whitney Biennial have tapped Taja Cheek a.k.a. L’Rain as the guest curator of the event’s performance program. Chrissie Iles and Meg Onlie have tasked Cheek with developing “a performance and sound series in the Museum’s galleries and theater space that represents the forefront of contemporary experimental performance and sound,” according to a press release.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on DJ Haram's Handplay, Clark's Cave Dog, BigXThaPlug's The Biggest, and more.

André 3000 has broken a new record by now scoring the longest-ever song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.Following the release of his new flute music album ‘New Blue Sun’, the record’s opening track ‘I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a “Rap” Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time’ entered the Billboard Hot 100 at 90. The track clocks in at 12 minutes and 20 seconds, making it the longest-ever song to enter the charts.The title was previously held by Tool, who released the 10 minute and 21 seconds cut ‘Fear Inoculum’ in August 2019 – that track debuted on the Hot 100 charts at number 93.

A post shared by Blank Forms (@blankforms_)“In 2003, Hennix returned to producing computer-generated sound works, initiating a productive two-decade run. After a long hiatus from leading ensembles, she formed the Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage in 2005 after meeting the trombonist Hilary Jeffery, and later led the just intonation group the Kamigaku Ensemble.

The FADER’s transgender charity covers compilation FADER & Friends Volume 1 is out now, available exclusively on Bandcamp until December 1, 2023. 100% of the proceeds go towards the Transgender Law Center, Mermaids, and Rainbow Railroad.

André 3000 has released his long-awaited new solo album New Blue Sun. Announced earlier this week, the project is a collection of woodwind flute compositions from the former Outkast rapper. New Blue Sun is co-produced by 3000 and Carlos Niño.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week.

André 3000 has explained why he has stopped rapping, saying that it can now feel “inauthentic” to do so.The OutKast member – real name André Lauren Benjamin – released his debut solo album, ‘New Blue Sun’, today (November 17) after announcing the project earlier this week. Clocking in at 87 minutes, the project consists of minimalist and experimental flute music.Fans were told ahead of the record’s arrival that it would contain “no bars”, beats or vocals. The LP even opens with a track titled ‘I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A “Rap” Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time’.‘New Blue Sun’ comes 17 years after OutKast’s sixth and final studio effort, 2006’s ‘Idlewild’.

André 3000 has revealed he had to ask Beyoncé’s permission to use her name on a forthcoming song title.The Outkast rapper recently unveiled his first solo album in 17 years, which will reportedly consist of an 87-minute long album of experimental flute music. ‘New Blue Sun’ is set to drop tomorrow (November 17).The album also features a number of rather unusual and long song titles.

André 3000 will release a new solo album this Friday. The album is titled New Blue Sun and features eight tracks of him playing the flute. NPR, who spoke to the OutKast member ahead of the release, reveal that the album clocks in at 87 minutes and features a track titled "I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A 'Rap' Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time." In recent years André 3000 has been spotted playing the flute in public settings, something that has confused onlookers and making him regularly go viral.

André 3000 has shared details about his first solo album in 17 years, an 87-minute long album of experimental flute music.Announced today (November 14), the OutKast rapper revealed to fans that the album is not a rap record and even includes a label on the cover warning that the LP contains “no bars”.Titled ‘New Blue Sun’, the album is instead an 87-minute long record of both minimalist and experimental music, which hears André take on a variety of woodwind instruments including contrabass flute, Mayan flutes, bamboo flutes as well as other digital wind instruments. No bars, beats or vocals are included.“I’ve always kind of been analysing it or figuring out how I wanted to approach it… I have to feel happy about sharing it,” André 3000 told NPR about his approach to a new solo album.“That’s why ‘New Blue Sun’ was something that I realised, whoa, I really want people to hear it. I really want to share it.

New artists often face a creative conundrum; parsing through a lifetime of influences to slot themselves into, or create, an easily defined sound of their own. For Singapore-based artist Xena Giam, feeling is what guides her music far beyond the confines of genre.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Tkay Maidza's Sweet Justice, Actress' LXXXVIII, Hotline TNT's Cartwheel, and more.

The FADER’s transgender charity covers compilation FADER & Friends Volume 1 is out now, available exclusively on Bandcamp until December 1, 2023. 100% of the proceeds go towards the Transgender Law Center, Mermaids, and Rainbow Railroad.

Death Grips walked off stage without finishing their set at a show in Fayetteville, Arkansas over the weekend after the group's MC Ride was pelted with items thrown by people in the audience. Eyewitness reports at the JJ's venue report both a phone and multiple glowsticks being thrown at the frontman, with the latter prompting him to leave the stage and not return. Footage from the night can be seen below.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on L'Rain's I Killed Your Dog, Helena Deland's Goodnight Summerland, MIKE's Burning Desire, and more.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Pangaea's Changing Channels, A. Savage's Several Songs About Fire, Slauson Malone 1's EXCELSIOR, and more.

Björk and Rosalía have shared their first official collaboration, a 75-second song protesting fish farming in Iceland. It exists only on YouTube and is appropriately titled — for now, at least — “help fight fish farming in iceland.” The Icelandic art-pop legend and Spanish flamenco-pop superstar sing a capella and in unison on the track, repeating a simple refrain: “Is that the right thing to do? / Is that the right thing to do? / Oh, I just don’t know / I just don’t know.” A statement shared by Björk explains that the track will be officially released later this month, with proceeds going toward the legal fees of the people on the front lines of an ongoing protest against a new fish farm in Fjord Seyðisfjörður.

Slauson Malone 1 is just about to release EXCELSIOR, the N.Y.C artist's third solo album and first under his new moniker (previously, it was just "Slauson Malone"). Out October 6 via Warp Records, EXCELSIOR will feature the Song You Need "Voyager," "New Joy," and now the newest single "Half-Life." Whereas "Voyager" continued to pull on the experimental jazz threads that Malone 1 relied on for his previous group Standing On The Corner, like "New Joy," "Half-Life" explores space-age, moody indie rock.

L’Rain has shared the third single from her forthcoming third LP, I Killed Your Dog. The record is scheduled to arrive October 13 via Mexican Summer, and “r(EMOTE)” — which follows previous album offerings “New Year’s UnResolution” and “Pet Rock” — is out today.

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week.

Experimental pop artist Eartheater has released her sixth full-length studio album Powders. The project is available via her own label, Chemical X, and features the previously released singles “Pure Smile Snake Venom” and "Chop Suey." The latter is a blissed-out cover of System of a Down's nu-metal classic.

Eartheater has shared the second single from her fifth solo studio album, Powder, due out September 20 via her own label, Chemical X. Along with her announcement of next week’s project last month, the Queens-based experimental pop singer shared that she’ll have another album, Aftermath, out sometime in 2024.

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. Take a deconstructed, bass-heavy beat from the pulsing womb of a German club.