Premiere: “Time” by EMEFE

Funk served fresh, a new track and accompanying EP from the NYC afrobeat band

NYC afrobeat dance band staple EMEFE, founded by beast of a drummer and vocalist Miles Arntzen (who keeps the beat for Antibalas and Will Butler of Arcade Fire), will have you hooked after one live show. (Start with them funking up a van with their song “Release.”) The band’s current roster is composed of musicians all skilled in their own right, including Doug Berns (guitar), …

Major Lazer in Cuba

Photos from their most significant performance yet

Caribbean-influenced EDM act Major Lazer—whose current line-up is made up of Diplo, Walshy Fire and Jillionaire—put on one of their most meaningful performances yet this past Sunday. The venue: the José Martí Anti-Imperialist Platform, just across the street from the Embassy of the United States in Havana, Cuba. Playing a free show for roughly 400,000 people, Major Lazer—whose team paid their own way there—have become …

Bibio feat. Gotye: The Way You Talk

Marking Bibio’s first collaboration release, “The Way You Talk” is an unusual kind of heart-wrenching pop ballad from the traditionally instrumental-focused electronic music producer. Gotye smoothly sings, “But there’s something about the way you talk” into a haze of echoes (the two first met when Gotye requested that Bibio remix “Somebody That I Used To Know”) as Bibio layers a modified Hohner D6 Clavinet, Moog …