Feist: The Stranger (Gord Downie Tribute)

Hauntingly beautiful, Feist’s cover of “The Stranger was her tribute to fellow Canadian and Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie, who died this week from brain cancer. The track was drawn from Downie’s 2016 solo album Secret Path. Feist explains that “I send out this song with love, respect and gratitude in honor of Gord’s generosity of spirit. I admired so much his honest way of …

Ela Minus: a.r.p.

In one improvisational take, Colombian singer and electronic musician Ela Minus (aka Gabriela Jimeno) filmed the video for a.r.p., out today. Minus used Critter & Guitari’s ETC video synthesizer and created a series of lo-fi imagery “live.” The shifting digital palette accompanies the warm, undulating track—which appears on her EP Adapt, released earlier this year. Minus is presently touring the world.

Exhibition feat. Julian Casablancas: No One There

New York-based director Charles Billot and art director Piera Wolf have united to dress an ’80s-saturated grit and glamour atop “No One There,” a single from Hammarsing Kharhmar’s band Exhibition. Julian Casablancas lends his signature vocal stylings to the track, which—video included—feels like a fuzzy, melodic and neon-lit trip.