The main music news of the week is
Beyonce's amazing show at the Super Bowl, right?
Destiny's Child performed 'Single Ladies' and it's EXACTLY how you dreamed it!
My Bloody Valentine have a new album called
mbv, and the whole thing has been uploaded to YouTube (sorry dudes). You should still buy it though! Because the industry and royalties and Spotify and the death of music! Here's the first track 'she found now':
An unreleased
M.I.A song popped up this week, called 'Doobie'. Producer
Danja uploaded it on YouTube, so cut to the 2.34 mark to hear some very old school M.I.A rapping over tribal drums:
Whether you love him or hate him, you can't deny that
Drake is one of the most consistent and popular rappers around right now. Plus, I like him a lot and his new song 'Started From The Bottom' (the first single off his upcoming album apparently) is catchy and also great:
Not only did
Frank Ocean not press charges on
Douche-bag Brown (because he is grown-up and moral and he knows the Internet was on his side anyway, so who cares?), but he also covered
Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance':
Depeche Mode are a bunch of goths, and they're not sad about that. Here is their latest single 'Heaven' which involves abandoned mansions, angels of death and trees.
Mykki Blanco is an artist who can't be defined by craft, musical genre or gender, which is kind of interesting. In 'Kingpinining' he talks about how he has friends of all types, like "real niggas and real dykes" which is cool.
Lil B has a new mixtape called
Pink Flame, download it
here if you're so inclined.
Those crazy Californians
Zig Zags have released a video for their slow-burning single 'Love Alright'. It's the perfect kind of music for having epiphany's by yourself in the desert.
Melody’s Echo Chamber has released a B-side to single 'Crystalized', called 'Je Me Perds De Vue'. It's super dreamy and arguably better than 'Crystalized':
Kool A.D. from
Das Rasict (R.I.P) has released the first single off his upcoming album
19 called 'Eroika', in which he references
Twin Peaks,
Justin Bieber and
Kevin Sorbo. KOOL A.D. FTW.