Matthew Dear: Pale Shelter (feat. Tegan and Sara)

Matthew Dear's Tears for Fears, Outline Artists' creative series, South Africa hits Brooklyn and more in our look at music this week

British rock duo Tears For Fears haven’t released an album since their 2004 reunion for Everybody Loves A Happy Ending but they have offered some pretty epic covers of younger artists like Arcade Fire and Animal Collective, showing that New Wave is still elegant and relevant. Matthew Dear and Tegan and Sara return the favor by reinterpreting the band’s 1983 single “Pale Shelter” into a …

Hi-Five: Never Should’ve Let You Go

Matthew Dear's Tears for Fears, Outline Artists' creative series, South Africa hits Brooklyn and more in our look at music this week

For this week’s #PrivateJam we checked in with the unabashed Buzzfeed creative and Sorry Mom founder Alix McAlpine, who told us, “My musical taste is generally embarrassing more often than not—my guilty pleasure right is Ariana Grande! Especially this one Christmas song she has, ‘Snow In California.’ I am so lame. I also still listen to this one song, ‘Never Should’ve Let You Go,’ from …

Christian Tiger School + Bilal + World’s Fair: Spanish Robin Williams

Matthew Dear's Tears for Fears, Outline Artists' creative series, South Africa hits Brooklyn and more in our look at music this week

As part of Okayplayer’s ongoing collaboration series that brings divergent musicians together for one-off tracks, South African hip-hop production team Christian Tiger School traveled to Brooklyn to lay down “Spanish Robin Williams,” an unexpected, eclectic banger with New York MCs World’s Fair and neo-jazz trailblazer Bilal. Something of a musical buffet, la the UN’s cafeteria, the track mixes genres and styles seamlesslythe tripped out hip-hop …