Syd feat. Lucky Daye: CYBAH

Syd announces her second solo album, Broken Hearts Club, with the sultry and slow-burning “CYBAH,” featuring Lucky Daye. Syd (who’s part of Odd Future and the founder of The Internet) has crafted a hypnotic beat that’s buoyed by her own featherweight voice as well as gorgeous vocals from Lucky Daye. The album, which follows 2017’s sublime Fin, will feature the previously released “Missing Out” and include cameos from …

Word of Mouth: Marrakech

The most-visited city in Morocco has reopened and is as vibrant as ever

Except for a brief two-month period last year, Morocco‘s borders were closed from February 2020 until February 2022. We arrived in Marrakech—the country’s fourth largest and most-visited city—just three days after the country reopened to travelers, and found a place with few tourists, but awash with parties, exhibitions and a visceral vibrancy. The art scene here is in full bloom—as the local creative community used …

Listen Up

From ambient to indie, some of our favorite new tunes this week

Mavis Staples and Levon Helm: You Got To Move In 2011, musician Levon Helm (perhaps best known as a vocalist and drummer for The Band) invited legendary recording artist Mavis Staples to his Woodstock studio to record a series of sessions. They would become some one of Helm’s last, as he passed away due to throat cancer in 2012. From these sessions—which will be released …