Premiere: “Painfully Obvious” by Twin Cabins

The song and music video from the emerging LA-based artist contemplates physical intimacy

We don’t know much about Nacho Cano—who creates music under the name Twin Cabins—aside from the fact that he was born in Mexico, raised in California, and built his own desktop computer so that it could run a studio. But it’s one of those instances when we’re happy to let the music speak for itself. While the songs Cano made in the past few years …

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 while including plenty of throwbacks, and saturated in sass.

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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 …