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Zambian-Canadian rapper Backxwash and Wichita-born, Brooklyn-based noise icon Dreamcrusher have teamed up to release "Thumbs Down (Not I)." The new track is the 33rd addition to the 2021 Adult Swim Singles series, which kicked off with an Iceage track in May and has recently featured music from Soccer Mommy with Kero Kero Kero Bonito, Moor Mother with Beans, and many more FADER favorites, both in collaboration and solo.

Baltimore sound and visual artist Amy Reid has taken the concept of the concept album quite literally. She recorded Dome Trax, a five-track EP full of aqueous synths that tingle the synapses, as the background music in a 25-foot-wide, 12-foot-high geodesic dome she built with fellow multimedia artist Johnny Rogers during a residency at Merriweather District in Columbia, Maryland.

2020 saw the release of Bubba, the sophomore project from influential Montreal-based producer Kaytranada. The project won Best Dance/Electronic Album at the 2021 Grammys as well as the Best Dance Recording award for "10%" featuring Kali Uchis.

Arca has announced her seventh studio album, kick iiii. It will arrive on December 3, the same day her fifth and sixth albums, KICK ii and KicK iii, are set to drop.

Eli Keszler has released Icons+, a deluxe version of his June album, Icons, including two additional tracks. The New York-based percussionist, composer, and frequent Oneohtrix Point Never collaborator has shared multiple digital and physical audio formats of the album, all available for purchase on his website.

Chicago composer and cornetist Ben Lamar Gay makes music that transcends phyical borders and conceptual boundaries. Today, he shared “Aunt Lola and the Quail," the fourth single from his sophomore album, Open Arms to Open Us, out November 19 on International Anthem and Nonesuch Records.

Jenny Hval is constantly changing forms. Her work — both musical and literary — can be brutally cold and minimalist or glowing with humanistic warmth, depending on the project.

The latest full-length from the Houston rap superstar collects the freestyles she's shared over the past year on social media, plus a bunch of new songs. Her latest hit "Thot Shit" appears on the tracklist's 21 songs.

Not long after sharing her seventh studio album Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Lana Del Rey announced her follow-up. Blue Banisters is co-produced by Del Rey and features the singles "Arcadia," "Textbook," "Wildfire," and of course, the title track.

Lawrence Matthews was ready to retire his musical alter-ego Don Lifted in late 2019. "I felt like I was at the end of what that body of work was," he told his local alt-weekly, The Memphis Flyer, in an interview published last week.

The best argument for TikTok as a talent incubator for exciting musicians can be found in PinkPantheress, a 20-year-old artist from the U.K with a nostalgic passion for U.K. garage.

With his 2019 album Assume Form, James Blake embraced his influence as a producer by enlisting a variety of guests that included Travis Scott, André 3000, and Rosalía.

Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq has announced a new album Tongues and shared the project's title track. The new music is produced by Saul Williams and mixed by Gonjasurfi, and incorporates excerpts from Tagaq's 2018 novel Split Tooth.

Singer Grimes and SpaceX founder Elon Musk have ended their relationship after three years and one child together, according to Page Six. Musk told the publication they remain close and continue to parent their 1-year-old son X Æ A-Xii Musk, but that traveling for work is what ultimately lead to the relationship's demise.

The debut album from Lil Nas X comes about two years after releasing "Old Town Road," one of the most successful pop songs of all time. Since then, Nas has kept the hype alive with a steady stream of hits like "Call Me By Your Name (Montero)" and "Industry Baby" featuring Jack Harlow, both of which feature on Montero.

Here's a pleasant surprise for your Wednesday afternoon: a new song from ROSALÍA, who has collaborated with Dominican musician Tokischa for a track called "Linda." Raymi Paulus directs the absolutely raucous music video, full of colorful outfits and grinding in places you may not expect. At one point, an alien shows up.

jonatan leandoer96, the almost-eponymous moniker of the rapper better known as Yung Lean, is best known among Sad Boys fans for zero-fanfare drops of experimental music far removed from the cloud-rap Lean creates.

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It's been three years since Lotic, a Berlin-based producer of experimental electronics, unleashed her album Power. After returning last year with a single called "Cocky," Lotic is back once more with a new song called "Come Unto Me," a new song from her upcoming project Water.

Gloria Gaynor's iconic disco hit "I Will Survive" is transformed into a haunting waltz courtesy of a new cover by Perfume Genius. Mike Hadreas explained in the latest edition of his Substack newsletter that he recorded the cover for a commercial project that didn't come to fruition.

A rap superstar across the pond, London artist Dave has nabbed the 2019 Mercury Prize, a FADER profile, and yes, even a Drake remix. After a string of U.K.

The Polaris Music Prize, an annual event celebrating the best Canadian music of the year, has revealed the short list selections for its $50,000 top prize. Mustafa made the list with In Smoke Rises (its single "Stay Alive" was one of our 100 favorite songs of 2020) The Weather Station's Ignorance, and Zoon's Bleached Waves (read a short interview with the shoegaze musician here).

Experimental electronic musician Holly Herndon broke new ground with her 2019 project Proto, an album named after and written in collaboration with an A.I. developed by Herndon and Mat Dryhurst.

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2020 came with significant ups and downs for the Chicago rapper — his album PTSD gave him his biggest chart success yet with the mononymous single featuring Juice WRLD and Chance The Rapper, yet towards the end of the year, Herbo was hit with wire fraud and identity theft charges. But he's overcome significant odds before, as he details across his new project 25.

The long-awaited follow-up to Igor, Tyler's Grammy-winning 2019 project, is here. Call Me If You Get Lost was preceded by the song "LUMBERJACK," a small portion of "WUSYANAME," and a number of teasers.

In the decade-plus since their formation, Montreal three-piece SUUNS have established themselves as one of Canada's most respected purveyors of avant-garde rock music.

The new album from one of Chicago rap's biggest artists comes on the heels of his No. 1 single "RAPSTAR." That song is on Hall Of Fame along with Lil Wayne, Lil Durk, Nicki Minaj, DaBaby, Young Thug, Pop Smoke, Roddy Ricch, and more.

POiSON ANNA ushers you into a world of propulsive movement and claustrophobic tension in her dystopic "FAiNT" video. The visual, premiering above, is the first taste of the London-based artist's upcoming mixtape EXCELSiA, due later this month via NTS.

Dean Blunt's 2014 album Black Metal is considered a standout in a career full of exciting, challenging music. As one half of the groundbreaking act Hype Williams, one-third of Babyfather, and as a solo artist and collaborator (A$AP Rocky, Mica Levi, and many more), Blunt has consistently blurred genre and tonal lines like few artists can.