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Listen: Brasstracks – ‘Those Who Know’

Over the past couple of years or so, Brasstracks have managed to carve a solid fanbase thanks to their interesting spin on future sounds. Self-dubbed ‘future brass’, the NYC-based duo (Ivan and Conor) can firmly count Chance The Rapper among the high-calibre support – their work on Chance’s Coloring Book is something many would dream, and now, after last year’s Good Love EP, the lads have turned their attention to another new project, Those Who Know.

Announcing the title-track today, the boys are staying tight-lipped on what’s to come from their new music, but this song itself stands out from the rest of Brasstracks’ repertoire, primarily as Ivan’s vocals are taking a starring role. Those Who Know is cited as a two-parter, so who knows what’s around the corner, but in the meantime, feast your ears on the joint below.

Watch Pink cover Sam Smith’s ‘Stay With Me’ in the Live Lounge

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Pink followed in the footsteps of the Foo Fighters, Chris Martin, The Script, The xx and Thirty Seconds to Mars to become the latest entrant into Radio 1’s Live Lounge earlier today, performing a special showcase as part of the station’s Live Lounge Month.

Opening on her latest single What About Us, Pink then followed onto 2006’s Who Knew before concluding her set with a stunning rendition of Sam Smith’s Stay With Me.

Of the track (and Sam himself), the US star said “I love [Sam’s] voice so much. I love his songs. I actually was having a little Twitter conversation with him the other day which was very timely. I wanted to tell him but I didn’t. There are songs that come out once in a while that you wish you wrote, and that was one of them.”

Watch the performance below:

Video: Calvin Harris – ‘Hard to Love’ (ft. Jessie Reyez)

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Calvin Harris scored a winner with his latest album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1. Collaboration-heavy, the project showed Harris’ massive versatility as a producer, and non moreso than one of the record’s standouts, the Jessie Reyez-featuring Hard To Love. Today, that song gets another one-up by way of the minimalist, yet excellent official video.

Watch it below:

Listen: Lorde – ‘Perfect Places’ (Peking Duk Remix)

Australian duo Peking Duk rarely jump on the remix-front (their last big rework was over four years ago, courtesy of Passion Pit’s ‘Take A Walk’), however today they’ve decided to give some neighbourly loving to New Zealand’s Lorde, breaking down her recent Perfect Places.

Keeping Lorde’s unmistakeable smooth vocals in the forefront, Canberra-raised Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles supplement the non-linear back-track with one of their infamous sweeping buildups, morphing the Melodrama closer into a perfectly-exciting disjointed version of the original’s ‘post-party’ cruel vision of reality.

Stream below:

Listen: Michael Jackson – ‘Blood on the Dance Floor X Dangerous’ (The White Panda Mash-Up)

Following the announcement of Scream, the latest posthumous collection of classic Michael Jackson tracks, US duo The White Panda have shared their own inclusion into the project, with their rework of five of the album’s songs.

Titled Blood on the Dance Floor X Dangerous, both songs of which feature in the mash-up, the energetic remix also throws in sonics and vocals from Leave Me Alone, Is It Scary and This Place Hotel.

Scream, which lands later this month, takes into account the impending Halloween season, and will include the likes of Torture, Thriller, Dirty Diana, Ghosts and more.

Listen to The White Panda’s edit below:

Listen: David Zowie – ‘The Real Don’

David Zowie has returned with The Real Don, delivering his first piece of new music since last year’s huge House Every Weekend.

Listen below:

Listen: TIEKS – ‘Say a Prayer’ (ft Chaka Khan & Popcaan)

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It’s been more than a minute since we’ve heard anything fresh from TIEKS, but bloody hell has he come back with a belter!

Say A Prayer, which follows on from 2015’s huge Sunshine hears the London-based songwriter hook up with Popcaan, alongside… wait for it… the legendary Chaka Khan.

A slow start but once you get into it, boy is it big. Listen to Say A Prayer below:

Listen: Girlhood – ‘Bad Decisions’

London-based newcomers Girlhood have shared their excellent new single Bad Decisions.

Announced earlier today, the release of the uplifting song coincides with the reveal of the duo’s first ever live show at London’s Hoxton Bar & Kitchen on November 3rd.

Girlhood really need to be on your radar – already a firm favourite of Radio 1’s Annie Mac, Bad Decisions will definitely make your ears prick up and seek out more (last year’s My Boy is equally as fab btw).

Listen below; you can grab tickets for the Hoxton show over on Dice, here.

Syd releases new EP, ‘Always Never Home’

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Syd has released her three-track EP Always Never Home, following last month’s inclusion, Bad Dream/No Looking Back.

The project, which follows on from The Internet’s member’s solo debut record Fin released earlier in the year, continues to keep fans of The Internet at bay – whilst a new record from the collective is still yet to see the light of day (2015’s Ego Death was their last studio outing), various members continue to release their own music. Steve Lacy and Matt Martians have already joined Syd with their own EPs, and now even more new music from the latter has graced us.

Listen to Always Never Home in full below:

Sinead Harnett announces ‘Live From The Jazz Cafe’ EP

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Sinead Harnett has surprise-released a new EP, recorded live from her recent sold-out show at Camden’s Jazz Cafe.

Featuring five songs, lifted from her recently-released Chapter One mixtape alongside last year’s self-titled EP, the project coincides with the Londoner’s announcement of her first ever headline shows in Los Angeles and New York. Sinead will also perform back in London next month at the capital’s Heaven nightclub.

Listen to Live From The Jazz Cafe, below: