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 …

Gavin Lucas: Outline Zone #1

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

ListenUp is a Cool Hunting series published every Sunday that takes a deeper look at the music we tweeted about that week. Often we’ll include a musician or notable fan’s surprising personal interests—#PrivateJam exposes their musical guilty pleasure.

Chances With Wolves’ 35 Summers Mixtape

NYC's favorite DJ trio curates a special playlist for your 4th of July festivities

Perpetually on the hunt for “overlooked, hauntingly beautiful music”, DJ trio Chances With Wolves has been serving NYC and beyond with a dose of carefully considered sounds since 2008. Their weekly East Village Radio program fills the airwaves with a thematic mix of obscure tracks that are sure to fire up any party or ignite a newfound interest in an old name. To celebrate America’s …