Lucy Lu: Crucial

London-based producer Lucy Lu’s newest single “Crucial” is a silky, synth-driven track that melts as it moves along. Lu croons—filtered and echoed—with horns, bellowing bass and electronic crescendos in the backdrop. It’s all a bit futuristic, with incredible depth. Lu, while still a relatively new name, teases infinite potential here. You can catch him at his headliner show in London on 11 June.

Upstate to Aska: Fredrik Berselius on Foraging Fresh Ingredients

We speak with the chef about approaching wild ingredients through a Scandinavian lens

For Swedish-born chef Fredrik Berselius, a two or three hour drive north of NYC offers a landscape that’s similar to that of his homeland. Whether it be sorrel, bronze fennel and yarrow (which grow at North Brooklyn Farms) or birch bark, garlic mustard, pineapple weed and watercress (which sprout in the Catskills), there are a lot of the same produce and plants too. In fact, …

Divino Niño: Maria

Chicago-based four-piece Divino Niño’s “Maria” finds itself at the intersection of multiple influences and sounds. Sung entirely in Spanish, the song is a single off the band’s forthcoming album, Foam, out 21 June on Winspear. With psychedelic references and plenty of warm vibes, the song burns for exactly three minutes, melding together guitar, blissful harmonies, synths, a shaker or two and more.