Kaskade has kicked off festival season with a bevy of new productions. His last offering was a new original titled “Jorts FTW” — a strange, albeit exciting festival piece designed with wild crowds in mind. The track was a step outside of his usual brand of emotive house music, yet well-received nonetheless by fans for its intensity.
Stars have been releasing a different cover song every month for all of 2016. Past installments in the series have included Bob Dylan and Kanye West, and for their latest offering, they’ve decided to take on soft-EDM posterchild Mike Posner’s country-inflected acoustic ballad “I Took A Pill In Ibiza.” If his feelings regarding other Stars covers are anything to go by, Prince probably would have loved it.
Beck’s masterpiece Odelay turns 20 in a couple of weeks, and with his new single “Wow,” Beck sounds like he’s returning to that album’s sound. More specifically, Beck has somehow come up with a 2016 version of the bemused surrealist funk of Odelay.
Field Music have never compromised, though their existence is less about letting their freak flag fly than a refusal to submit to the conventions of music industry excess. They maintain careful, hands-on management of their own affairs: Rather than move to London, the Brewis brothers have always lived in their native North-East.