new.currency® – episode 005
Twenty-one records. Two sides. The frequency does not miss.
new.currency® – episode 004
Sixteen records. Two sides. The collective keeps going.
LÉA THE LEOX Closes a Chapter With Fatal and Leaves It Exactly Where It Belongs
The Brockton-born, LA-based artist completes her Fatal Attraction EP with the most stripped-back and honest record of her career so far.
Painted Dunes’ Standby Is the First Record of 2026 You Will Want to Live Inside
The Atlanta jazz house duo returns with a track that understands exactly what stillness sounds like.
new.currency® – episode 003
Twenty-three records. No genre walls. The collective is back.
The Man They Laughed At Built the Sound You’re Listening To Right Now
Twenty years after Rappa Ternt Sanga, it is time to settle the argument. T-Pain is not just influential. He is one of the most important artists popular music has ever produced, and the culture still has not fully reckoned with what it put him through to get here.
Thundercat – Distracted, Album Review
Thundercat is too gifted to be this scattered and too charming for it to matter.
James Blake – Trying Times, Album Review
On his most emotionally direct record yet, Blake turns grief into architecture and somehow makes it feel like shelter.
Bleach Is Ending. The Final Season Deserves to Be Seen in a Theater First.
VIZ Media and Fathom Entertainment are bringing The Calamity to US cinemas before it hits streaming, and for one of anime's most storied franchises, the timing could not be more right.
BMW Just Used Its Most Expensive Sedan to Tell You Where Every Car It Makes Is Headed
The 2027 7 Series is not really about the 7 Series. It is a blueprint, and the industry should pay attention.
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PluggnB: The Sound That Built Itself in the Dark Before Anyone Was Watching
How a decade-long experiment in Atlanta bedrooms, SoundCloud servers, and gospel choir memories became the fastest-growing genre on earth, and what it tells us about where music is actually headed.
The Engineer Takes the Throne: John Ternus Is Apple’s Next CEO
For the first time since Steve Jobs died, Apple has a new kind of leader. What that means for the most valuable company on earth is the only question that matters right now.
Justin Bieber Showed Up to Coachella With a Laptop and Reminded Everyone What Pop Actually Is
Bieberchella was not lazy. It was the most honest argument anyone has made about fame, nostalgia, and the internet in years. The only question is whether the culture was ready to hear it.
Nintendo’s Switch 2 Holiday Lineup May Include the Ocarina of Time Remake Nobody Dared Hope For
Credible leaks point to one of gaming's most sacred titles getting a ground-up remake, a new Star Fox game, and a 3D Mario delay that tells its own story.
Samara Cyn’s Detour Is the Most Honest She Has Ever Sounded
The Tennessee-born, LA-based rapper's third EP refuses to stay in one place, and that restlessness is exactly the point.
corto.alto Steps Into a Different World With WHODIS
The Glasgow artist's first new music of 2026 pairs J Dilla-inspired production with Chicago rapper Mick Jenkins, and signals something bigger on the horizon.
SALLIE’s Let Me Know Proves That the Best R&B Knows When to Pull Back
The Atlanta duo of Jay-Mo Dejon and Zaria Hall deliver a stripped-back single that lets one of the most compelling voices in modern soul do exactly what it needs to.
JSTRNGS and Ayeisha Raquel’s Day Ones Is the Kind of Record That Finds You When You Need It
The London duo delivers one of the most quietly powerful R&B collaborations of the year on a track that understands exactly what it is.
Moses Yoofee Trio Return With a Double Single That Sounds Like the Future of Jazz
Nothing To Lose and Inner Circles announce the Berlin trio's Chasing Light EP and confirm exactly why the nu jazz world has been paying attention.
Epic Games and Disney Are Building a $1.5 Billion Bet on IP Over Originality
The extraction shooter genre is already crowded. Dropping Disney characters into it tells you everything about where the games industry's biggest players think culture is headed.
