Interesting beats important. — no press releases, no embargo schedule, no ranking. Things we found and could not stop thinking about.
Play itYouTubeChris Turner shot a performance, played it back on a CRT, filmed the CRT, played that back on something worse, and kept going until the image fell apart. No plugins. The decay is real and it is happening in the room.
Dir. Favourite Colour: Black · DP Luke Scully · Octopus Inc.
For years a night out in Lagos meant a table, a bottle and a minimum spend. A generation priced out of that has spent three years building the alternative, and the alternative is simply a room you can dance in.
Group Therapy, Ilé Ijó, Monochroma, Bvrn Out
Four years in, Closer and K41 are still open, Cxema still broadcasts monthly, and the parties still fund the army. Nobody involved is interested in being your symbol of resilience.
Bandcamp Daily’s report maps Greenlandic music from drum-dance revival to Nuuk Posse hip‑hop, and why artists often just want to be left alone.
Listen · Mexico CityN.A.A.F.I. put out a twenty-track compilation and a genre that got written off as a novelty fifteen years ago is having a second, more serious life.
Listen · ManilaA small detail buried in a scene report that says more about the global club economy than most essays about it.
Watch · The Weeknd, "Red Terror"Eddie Alcazar hybridises live action, stop-motion and VFX, and puts The Weeknd in a haunted forest as a toddler. We could not read the interview; the paywall wanted money.
Bandcamp Daily’s report maps Greenlandic music from drum-dance revival to Nuuk Posse hip‑hop, and why artists often just want to be left alone.
Believer (Gar Hole Records) folds clawhammer banjo into psych-rock and honky‑tonk; Bandcamp Daily, BroadwayWorld and Pitchfork picked up the release on Sept 11, 2026.
Sylvan Esso’s Bandcamp favorites thread together Four Tet, Nyege Nyege-affiliated acts, tabla solos and goat × Villalobos — and it’s telling.
Matador reissues Solex’s Low Kick and Hard Bop on vinyl — Elisabeth Esselink turned a tiny Amsterdam CD shop and a basement sampler into cozy, clever sample-pop.
Everything above, once a week, before the algorithm gets to it. Short, opinionated, entirely free.
