The Internet feat. KAYTRANADA: Girl

We thought things couldn’t get any steamier than their recent track “Special Affair,” but the latest release from six-member R&B group The Internet (featuring former Odd Future members Syd Tha Kid and Matt Martians) “Girl” does exactly that. With production from Montreal producer Kaytranada, the track uses Syd’s breathy vocals to full advantage to be a tender, modern day love song. The Internet’s third album …

Janet Jackson: No Sleeep

Janet Jackson’s newest single has been a long time coming—seven years since her last album Discipline, to be exact. Produced by her regular collaborators Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (the same brilliant minds behind her hits like “Miss You Much” to “Doesn’t Really Matter”), the bedroom-themed “No Sleeep” shows off Jackson’s seductive R&B charms and builds up anticipation for her yet-to-be-titled album set to drop …

Interview: Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra

On his fondness for skulls, how polyamory intertwined in music and life, and what makes a record important

On their first two albums, Portland-based Unknown Mortal Orchestra charmed fans with dirty low-fi tracks—poppy but unafraid to be thought-provoking—recorded out of a basement studio. Their third and latest effort, Multi-Love (out now via Jagjaguwar) was born in the same basement studio, but from the ashes of exhaustion, depression and too many drugs. Like a phoenix reborn in explosive sheen of disco and R&B and …