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Mykki Blanco has shared the video for “Family Ties,” a new song featuring R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe. It’s out now via Transgressive; check out the video, directed by Kit Monteith and featuring a Stipe cameo, below. “Family Ties” is produced by FaltyDL. Last year, Blanco shared the nine-track Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep EP, featuring production from FaltyDL. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.

Black Midi have released a three-track EP titled Cavalcovers, featuring their renditions of Taylor Swift’s “Love Story,” King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man,” and Captain Beefheart’s “Moonlight on Vermont.” The EP arrives just as Black Midi kick off their headlining North American tour. Give it a listen below. Cavalcovers is a play on words referencing the band’s 2021 album Cavalcade. Last year, Black Midi recorded five fan-voted covers for different territories and retailers that were available on limited flexi discs. Three of those covers comprise the tracklist for their new EP. For “21st Century Schizoid Man,” all three members of Black Midi contributed vocals for the first time. The group also enlisted Kaidi Akinnibi to lay down saxophone on the track. Revisit Pitchfork’s 2019 Ri...

Swedish pop singer Lykke Li is back with her first new song in two years. “No Hotel” is co-produced by Li and longtime collaborator Björn Yttling. Check out the track below. Li’s most recent album was 2018’s So Sad So Sexy and its 2019 companion EP, Still Sad Still Sexy. In 2020, she released the Swedish-language single “Bron,” as well as a cover of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive.” Last year, she also released a 10th anniversary edition of her second album, Wounded Rhymes. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.

Let’s Eat Grandma, the British duo of Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth, have announced a UK and North American tour and shared another song from Two Ribbons, their forthcoming album. The track is called “Levitation” and it comes with a music video directed by Noel Paul. Check it out below. This is the fourth song Let’s Eat Grandma have shared from the LP, following the title track, “Happy New Year,” and “Hall of Mirrors.” In a statement, Walton said “Levitation” is about “feeling all over the place, escaping to your imagination, and being in a disorientating and surreal mental state, which can be both scary and elevating somehow—everything feels more creative and things look brighter.” After appearing at Stag and Dagger Festival this spring and Latitude Festival in the summer, Let’s Eat ...