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Footwork and Juke, Explained (Chicago's Fastest Music)
Footwork and juke explained: Chicago's 160 BPM battle music, why DJ Rashad's Double Cup is the entry point, and how it rewired dance music worldwide.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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IYRE & Breezy Lee - Lament
IYRE and Breezy Lee make 170bpm liquid dnb feel like floating. Breezy Lee's vocal is the anchor and it keeps getting prettier.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestSundays. One email. Zero ballads from white guys in beanies. -
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Bensley - Sinking Ship. (D&B Mix)
Bensley bolts a full drum and bass engine onto a soft, sad synth line and the transplant actually takes. Canadian dnb stays criminally underrated.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestWhat you missed this week, minus the corporate emo. -
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Green Flag, Empty Plate
Read more . . . →Yesterday Donald Trump took a lap around downtown Washington in an armored limousine, waved a green flag, and 150,000 people watched open-wheel race cars tear down Pennsylvania Avenue at 160 miles per hour. The Freedom 250 Grand Prix — part of the America 250 birthday bash — turned the National Mall into a racetrack. Meanwhile, buried in a report nobody covered on a Saturday: SNAP enrollment dropped from 42.2 million to 36.6 million in twelve months. 5.6 million people lost food assistance in the same year the president turned the capital into a speedway. Arizona alone lost more than half...
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Icona Pop - Hurt
Read more . . . →Is this the Icona Pop comeback anyone actually asked for, or just the one we’re getting? “Hurt” is the Swedish duo doing the thing they’ve done since “I Love It,” shouting catchy, slightly bratty hooks over a big electro-pop beat, and depending on your tolerance that’s either a comfort or a problem. I land in the middle. The hook is undeniably sticky, the kind of chant that’ll be rattling around your head against your will by tonight, and the production has a bright, festival-ready punch that hits where it aims. But there’s a formula fatigue setting in. This is the...
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Habstrakt - Poison
Habstrakt drags moombahton back from the dead and gives it a wet, gross squelch. 'Poison' made me do an idiot dance at my desk.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Plate Charge
Read more . . . →Five thousand a plate to end hunger. The lobster was excellent, thanks for asking.
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Frank Walker - All Cried Out (Flux Pavilion Remix)
Flux Pavilion turns Frank Walker's clean pop hit into a dirty, distorted weapon. Radio fans might flinch. Everyone else just won.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogThree words. One opinion. Cotton. -
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This Week on coldplaysucks — Aug 17–23
Read more . . . →Thirty-two tracks across two drops this week, and the loudest theme is the past showing up uninvited. NGHTMRE got Jordin Sparks back to re-sing “No Air,” Inner City’s “Good Life” got a trance rebuild, Yomanda’s Y2K anthem came back rerecorded, and Skrillex’s “Bangarang” picked up yet another edit. DnB took the biggest share again at eight posts, but dubstep and house both brought heat. Track of the Week IMANU & A Girl Named Sue - All U Need IMANU keeps operating on a frequency nobody else in drum and bass can tune into. “All U Need” opens delicate and human,...
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Two Years of We Pray and Nobody Answered
Read more . . . →Two years ago today, Coldplay released “We Pray.” It still sucks. They crammed Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, and Tini onto one track and still managed to produce something with the emotional depth of a wellness app notification. Four artists who could each carry a stadium solo, reduced to garnish on a track focus-grouped into existence by a committee chasing the “unity” tag on Spotify. Chris Martin out here collecting features like they’re loyalty points. The single charted, obviously, because Coldplay at this point is less a band and more a purchasing habit. Then it disappeared, which is the kindest...
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