Simian Mobile Disco: Dervish

Kitty Cash's mixtape, Karen O's solo album, Simian Mobile Disco and more in the music we tweeted this week

English rock band-turned-electronic music duo Simian Mobile Disco are well-loved for their dark, addictive dance beats and passion for analog gear. They up the ante, however, with “Dervish,” the second single from their upcoming album Whorl. The album was recorded on two modular synths, two sequencers and a mixer near Joshua Tree National Park, in front a crowd of about 900 people. Eschewing typical verse-chorus-bridge …

Kitty Cash: Love The Free Vol. II (mixtape)

Kitty Cash's mixtape, Karen O's solo album, Simian Mobile Disco and more in the music we tweeted this week

Channeling the days when artists would put out mixtapes with previously unreleased tracks, DJ Kitty Cash has meticulously assembled Love The Free Vol. II, an exciting followup to her mixtape debut from 2013. The eagerly anticipated compilation features 29 tracks—mostly alt-R&B—from artists that personally move and inspire Cash, including Willow Smith, Wynter Gordon, Dev Hynes, Kali Uchis and of course her main homie Kilo Kish. …

Parasite Tintypes

Canada's hitchhiking robot, parasite tintypes, Patagonia's weed wetsuit and more in our weekly look at the web

Lice, ticks and fleas don’t typically lend themselves to beautiful portraiture, but photographer Marcus DeSieno has cast the pests in a different light through a combination of electron microscope technology and dry plate gelatin ferrotypes. The images are then enlarged and printed in large format (four feet), allowing the viewer to take on the monstrous forms and appreciate their complex anatomy.