Los Bitchos: Las Panteras

From London-based, all-women instrumental four-piece Los Bitchos comes “Las Panteras,” a rollicking retro-inspired number with a colorful, kitschy music video. The stylish synthesizer-driven, disco-funk track will appear on the band’s forthcoming debut LP Let The Festivities Begin!, produced by Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos and out on City Slang 4 February 2022.

Mitski: Working for the Knife

Singer-songwriter Mitski returns with the slow-burning single “Working for the Knife.” The song, Mitski says in a statement, is “about going from being a kid with a dream, to a grown-up with a job, and feeling that somewhere along the way you got left behind. It’s being confronted with a world that doesn’t seem to recognize your humanity, and seeing no way out of it.” …

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MUNYA: Tonight, Tonight (Smashing Pumpkins Cover) Singer-songwriter and producer MUNYA (aka Josie Boivin) has released two lovely tracks from her upcoming debut album, Voyage to Mars, and now the French-Canadian songstress delivers an unexpected but sublime cover of the 1995 Smashing Pumpkins song, “Tonight, Tonight.” The original—with its soaring 30-piece string section—lends itself to MUNYA’s folk-tinged synth-pop, but the two renditions are vastly different. The dreamy …