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FKA Twigs under the bedsheets, Snarky Puppy serves up a banquet of guest collabs, and Blackalicious is back in this week's music

FKA Twigs: Good to Love Resembling something a closer to a ballad than we’re used to from her, FKA Twigs’ brand new song “Good to Love” is her most intimate yet. With a close-up, personal (yet exquisitely stylized, like every Twigs production) black-and-white video (which she co-directed with Imma) to match, the track builds with background vocals and dramatic cadence that never overtakes the simple, …

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A 'perfect' duet from Tyler, the Creator and Kali Uchis to a disco-meets-afrobeat track by the legendary Cerrone in this week's music

Tyler, The Creator feat. Kali Uchis + Austin Feinstein: Perfect From Tyler, the Creator’s 2015 album Cherry Bomb, the second half of “Fucking Young / Perfect” comes to life in a new music video, directed by his alter-ego Wolf Haley. While Tyler, the Creator sings about a potential love who’s six years younger and therefore too “Fucking Young,” Kali Uchis takes the reins in the …

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Pussy Riot mocks corruption, Rihanna covers Tame Impala, new Moderat and more in this week's musical round-up

Pussy Riot: CHAIKA If you don’t know who Yuri Chaika is, Pussy Riot’s song “CHAIKA” can help fill in the blanks. The punk-rock protest collective, whose performances have gotten a few members jailed, bravely ridicules the Russian General Prosecutor through music video and spoken word (entirely in Russian). Just last December, Chaika was the subject of an investigative article, in the form of a film, …