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Luis Vasquez, the founder of the beloved industrial post-punk band the Soft Moon, has died. The Soft Moon's official Instagram page was updated on Friday, January 19 with a statement announcing Vasquez's passing.

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Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Eliza McLamb's Going Through it, ericdoa's DOA EP, PACKS's Melt The Honey, and more.

Burial has new music on the way. The reclusive British producer, whose official releases have all come through Hyperdub up to this point, will share the two-track single “Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above” via XL Recordings on February 9, the label announced Thursday.

Jlin has announced a new album called Akoma. Due out March 22 via Planet Mu, the 11-track LP will include guest appearances from Björk, Kronos Quartet, and Philip Glass, the latter of whom features on the record’s lead single.

Underground rap duo Armand Hammer have a new album called BLK LBL on the way, but there are a couple of catches: the follow-up to last year’s We Buy Diabetic Test Strips will be a vinyl exclusive for the foreseeable future and available for sale at Armand Hammer’s upcoming 2024 tour dates and pop-ups. News of the new album was posted yesterday by the X account of Armand Hammer’s label Backwoodz Studioz.

Online music is inherently precarious — if a physical recording of something is never made, it’s dangerously easy to erase any sign that it ever existed. With mass layoffs in the wake of Bandcamp’s sale from Epic Games to Songtradr, as well as the recent announcement that Soundcloud is seeking a buyer in a potentially billion-dollar deal, there are understandable concerns about the future of the music that’s been uploaded on those platforms.

Scar Tissue, the frank and revealing autobiography of Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, is to be turned into a movie. Deadline reports that the biopic is in the early stages of production after Universal Pictures picked up the rights to the book, which was first published in 2004. The idea of a Red Hot Chili Peppers movie is an undeniably appealing prospect to a Hollywood studio, Universal has recent success in the field with N.W.A.

Shygirl has shared the details of an upcoming EP. Titled Club Shy, the six-track EP will be released on February 9 via Because Music and features production and appearances from Kingdom, Empress Of, Boys Noize, Cosha, Lolo Zouaï, SG Lewis, Karma Kid, and Sega Bodega.

Big Thief's Adrianne Lenker has announced details of a new solo album. Bright Future will be released on March 22 via 4AD and includes the single "Sadness As A Gift." Scroll down to listen to that song now.

The Coachella 2024 line-up has officially been announced. Tyler, The Creator, Lana Del Rey, and Doja Cat will headline this year's event.

Ariana Grande has confirmed details of her next studio album. eternal sunshine is due on March 8 and will feature the single "yes, and?," which was released last week.

Walmart and streetwear brand Midwest Kids, the brainchild of designer and Kanye West's former fashion stylist Darryl Brown, released an exclusive capsule collection in celebration of Black History Month. Available at Walmart stores and online at Walmart.com/BlackandUnlimited, the collection features a range of apparel including a hoodie, jogger, and two tees.

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Playboi Carti has dropped a new song and video titled "EvilJ0rdan." The video, which drinking from a Hello Kitty mug and sporting devil-like horns, can be seen below, "EvilJ0rdan" is the latest in a flurry of releases from Carti, whose last album, Whole Lotta Red, was released in 2020. "Backr00ms," featuring Travis Scott, arrived on January 2.

Benny The Butcher has shared “BRON,” the third single from his major label debut LP, Everybody Can’t Go, due out January 26 via Def Jam. The new track is a stone-cold victory lap, chock-full of basketball metaphors and unabashed flexes that sound even more celebratory over Hit-Boy’s horn-heavy instrumental.

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Rachel Brown and Nate Amos have never shied away from confrontation with difficult emotions in their music as Water From Your Eyes — although, as Brown points out in the newest episode of Sounds of Saving’s “Songs That Found Me at the Right Time” series, “It’s ‘Water From Your Eyes,’ not ‘Water From Our Eyes.’” (“We’re not sad, you’re sad,” Amos adds.) The video, directed by Adam Donald and produced in partnership with 988 Crisis and Suicide Lifeline, features Amos and Brown discussing their own experiences of depression, self-destruction, and suicidal ideation before launching into a cover of Ween’s “If You Could Save Yourself (You’d Save Us All).” The criminally underrated closer of Ween’s 2003 album Quebec is a relatively straightforward entry from the notoriously whimsical band, an archetypal Gene Ween sad track that deserves a place in their enormous canon alongside the much-more-mean-spirited “Baby Bitch.” The song opens on an unusual scene — a “free ride home from the embassy” on which the protagonist spots “the governor and his lover holding hands” — but quickly becomes more relatable as themes of isolation, bitterness, and regret enter the fray. Our hero gets back to his place, empties his suitcase, and opens his windows wide.

Lil Nas X has returned with a new single titled "J Christ" and a video suitably filled with headline-grabbing religious imagery. The video, which is streaming below, begins with a group of celebrity lookalikes (including Ed Sheeran and Oprah) making their way to heaven.

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Ariana Grande has dropped "Yes, And?" the first single from her upcoming 2024 album. The song was written by Grande alongside her regular collaborators, producer Max Martin and songwriter Ilya Salmanzadeh.

Jay-Z and D’Angelo have shared "I Want You Forever." The collaboration clocks in at nine-and-a-half minutes and appears on the soundtrack to The Book of Clarence. Jeymes Samuel, who directed the new movie, also appears on "I Want You Forever." Stream the song in full below.

Faye Webster has announced details of a new album and shared "Lego Ring," her collaboration with Lil Yachty. Underdressed at the Symphony will be released on March 1 via Secretly Canadian.

A vicious debate rages across the internet this month, with manifestos etched into comment sections and forum threads. Picking the best Playboi Carti single out of the past four weeks is less an objective critical exercise than a musical Rorschach.

In 2021, a Toronto-based producer called Loukeman self-released Sd-1, his debut album. The project had an introspective sound that balanced between raw demo and polished composition as it breezed through fields of folktronica and dreamy house.

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The first trailer for the upcoming Amy Winehouse biopic, Back To Black, has been revealed. The movie, which opens in May, was made in collaboration with the late singer's family and stars Industry actor Marisa Abela in the lead role.

MGMT have shared the third single from Loss of Life, their first album since 2018’s Little Dark Age, due out February 23 via Mom + Pop. “Nothing to Declare” — not to be confused with 700 Bliss’ 2022 album of the same name — is a forlorn acoustic guitar ballad that nevertheless fits snugly into a three-and-a-half-minute runtime, never lingering too long in its most emotional moments.

Phill Niblock was notoriously resistant to analyses of his art. The composer and filmmaker, who passed away this week at 90, made the purest form of minimalism.

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Jamie xx has shared “It’s So Good,” the electronic producer’s first new single of 2024. Scroll down to listen.

This time last year, Black Sherif was the subject of our first GEN F profile of 2023, the year after he released The Villian I Never Was, No. 49 on our 50 best albums of 2022 list.

Copenhagen-based artist Erika de Casier has confirmed details of a new album. Still, de Casier's third project, will be released on February 21 via 4AD.

Julia Holter has announced details of her first album in over five years. Something in the Room She Moves will be released on March 22 via Domino and features the single "Spinning." You can see a video for that song below.

Waxahatchee has announced details of a new album. Katie Crutchfield will release Tigers Blood, her sixth solo project, on March 22.

Sinéad O'Connor's death in July 2023 was the result of natural causes, according to a statement from a London coroner report obtained by the New York Times. Following the result of the autopsy, which began soon after O'Connor's death, the coroner announced that they have “therefore ceased their involvement in her death.” The Irish singer-songwriter was 56 when she passed away in a London residence.