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The return of Missy, Ono remixed, a cosmic cat video, Butoh dance and more in this week's music

Missy Elliott feat. Pharrell Williams: WTF (Where They From) Flashy, playful and high-energy, “WTF (Where They From)” is classic Missy Elliott. A snippet of the track—a collaboration with Pharrell Williams—was released a while back, but today the all-singing, all-dancing video was released, complete with marionette versions of the two lead artists. Directed by Missy herself and Dave Meyers, it’s everything you love about Missy: futuristic …

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From Chromatics covering Cyndi Lauper to SFIRE's disco mix: something for everybody this week in new music

Chromatics: Girls Just Wanna Have Some Chromatics covered Cyndi Lauper’s classic “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” for a MANGO TV commercial featuring Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne. They’re now releasing it along with six other variations of the track, as a “maxi digital single.” One of the versions, “Girls Just Wanna Have Some” (another is called “Girls Just Wanna Have Drums”), gets its own …

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Heart-full Miike Snow, blood-drenched Grimes, weird Weezer and more this week of new music

Grimes: Flesh Without Blood/Life in the Vivid Dream In perfect Halloween timing, Grimes channels multiple characters—from Marie Antoinette behind sunglasses to a radiant cowboy angel to a dancing high roller—for her two-part music video, “Flesh Without Blood/Life in the Vivid Dream” (written, directed, edited, colored and art-directed by Grimes herself). This rock-pop jam is the first sampling of her long-awaited album Art Angels, and the …