Adam J Kurtz’s “Pick Me Up: a Pep Talk for Now and Later”

An activity book full of sound advice and existential, gallows humor

Brooklyn-based artist and designer Adam J Kurtz is launching his second book, “Pick Me Up: a Pep Talk for Now and Later” (the follow-up to “1 Page at a Time”), and it’s very much an activity guide for grown-ups. Not only are there spaces for drawing and writing poems, the majority of the pages are full of relatable modern-day anxieties and plenty of existential, dark …

Kehlani: CRZY

Kehlani’s You Should Be Here was a gift that kept giving last year, and now she helps us cling to summer with her new video for “CRZY.” The sun-drenched clip features Kehlani and a diverse bunch of dancers showing off moves choreographed by Antoine Troupe, a birthday party and a cast made up of the Oakland-based singer’s real friends. It’s a party tune that’s full …

Dirty Projectors: Keep Your Name

After teasing us about new music for the first time in seemingly forever, Dirty Projectors (the project of producer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist David Longstreth) has released a new track: the strange and wonderful deep cut “Keep Your Name.” The first track since 2012’’s Swing Lo Magellan, this is an incredibly layered song that is spacey, ghostly and atmospheric all at once.