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.” …

Gustaf: Cruel

A comedic flair underscores “Cruel,” the catchy new single from Brooklyn-based art-punk act Gustaf’s debut album, Audio Drag for Ego Slobs, out today on Royal Mountain Records. The delightfully absurd, Nemo Allen-directed official music video—complete with slapstick fights, role playing, trust falls and plenty of advice on how to succeed—makes the entire experience even more enjoyable. “When I started working out the lyrics for ‘Cruel,’ …