JIHAE: Illusion of You

A Boiler Room birthday mix, Todd Terje's debut album, a Frankie Knuckles tribute and more in the music we tweeted this week

After a successful crowdfunding effort for her new album “Illusion of You,” NYC-based JIHAE released the record’s first single of the same name, now available for download. The soulful songstress shows her vocal range in this dark, smoky track, which calls to mind a dodgy lounge from a film noir scene. With executive production from Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, this lead single is a …

ListenUp

A Boiler Room birthday mix, Todd Terje's debut album, a Frankie Knuckles tribute and more in the music we tweeted this week

Todd Terje: It’s Album Time Next week dance fans will finally be able to get their hands on the highly anticipated debut album from the self-dubbed “remaster of the universe,” Todd Terje. The aptly titled LP, It’s Album Time, arrives 10 years after the Norwegian DJ and producer dropped his first 12″ (which includes the brilliant cover of Cloud One’s “Don’t Let My Rainbow Pass …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Uncomfortable objects, intellectual erotica, Frankie Knuckles enduring legacy and more in our look at the web this week

1. The Unknown Vivian Maier In 2007, a 26-year-old amateur historian named John Maloof paid $380 for a box of negatives and undeveloped film at an auction. Therein, he would discover the intimate, beautiful images of photographer Vivian Maier, a Chicago nanny who captured remarkable scenes during the 1950s and ’60s. A new BBC documentary, “Finding Vivian Maier” charts Maloof’s quest to uncover the now-deceased …