XV Records feels like one of those labels you blink and suddenly everyone you trust is talking about them. They came out of London’s 10V Elysium arts collective and, in less than a year, have racked up absurd streaming numbers, lined up shows across Europe, and quietly assembled one of the deepest young rosters in…
The article presents I Tried to Tell You as the moment KP Skywalka really comes into his own. It’s an album where he pushes DMV drill forward without sanding down its edges, letting vulnerability and menace exist side by side. KP moves fluidly between memories of growing up—cheap meals, car rides soundtracked by ’90s…
This essay treats Horses less like a debut album and more like the moment Patti Smith stepped into herself in public. It opens with that now-mythic line—“Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine”—and traces it back to a specific night in 1971, inside St. Mark’s Church, when Smith read poetry with guitarist Lenny Kaye…
The world that gave rise to Soul Coughing’s 1994 debut album, Ruby Vroom, showing how it grew out of a very specific early-’90s moment. At the time, spoken-word poetry—especially poetry slams—had real cultural weight. What began in Chicago in 1986 spread quickly, finding homes in clubs, coffee shops, and places like New York’s Nuyorican Poets…
Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) has unveiled the soundtrack details for Marty Supreme, the forthcoming A24 film directed by Josh Safdie. The 23-track album, titled Marty Supreme (Original Soundtrack), arrives December 25 via A24 Music—the same day the film premieres in U.S. theaters. The film stars Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, an ambitious, slightly delusional…