Staff Pick: Rowena Wise & Didirri - No Cure For Love Indie folk from down under.
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Originally an affiliate of the influential 2000s art collective Paper Rad, the band Extreme Animals now has well over two decades of music, video, and mayhem under their belt. With a portion of the band’s catalog now on Nina, we wanted to ask them about some of their Best Songs.
Staff Pick: egofriendly - check my pulse.mp3 A mysterious low-bitrate banger that features Suzy Sheer.
Staff Pick: Dan English - Across My Jaw Sweeping orchestral pop with a nice guitar solo.
Staff Pick: Jśa - J Uneasy club music for a club that doesn’t exist.
We talked with cleo walks through glass, whose elusive kind of damaged electronic pop has been a favorite with Nina editorial over the past year.
Community Picks is a weekly series where artists submit a release to be voted on by members of the Nina community. The release with the most votes receives editorial coverage. This week’s winner is ‘we're not really, strangers EP’ by ventanaCLUB.
For this edition of Web of Influences, it’s the music that made the British pop-plunderphonics hero DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ.
Staff Pick: Precious Metals - Compilation Vol.1 A celebration of over a decade of boundary-pushing club music.
Staff Pick: Thys & Nikki Nair & Kelbin - The Wasp Sinister and buzzing electro bass.
For the newest Web of Influences, we talked to the legendary Danish composer and multimedia artist Frederik Valentin about his life in music and his 2024 record ‘ROCK N ROLL WILL NEVER DIE.’
Staff Pick: Martyn X Om Unit - The Passenger Two UK bass heavyweights meet for an EP full of imaginative low-end pressure.
Staff Pick: MK Velsorf & Aase Nielsen - Opening Night Jazzy music for lonely city nights.
Staff Pick: Jackzebra, Miriamdola, Deer park, Lilic - Pride A major meeting of the minds results in a wintery leftfield indie pop cut.
Staff Pick: Oghu - SenderReceiver The debut solo electronic album from the Shed Theory member.
Staff Pick: Betty Hammerschlag - Cold Double vision guitar swirl.
Staff Pick: bod [包家巷] + Æthereal Arthropod - parabrutality Next level noise—the release name is fitting.
Community Picks is a weekly series where artists submit a release to be voted on by members of the Nina community. The release with the most votes receives editorial coverage. This week’s winner is ‘LOVE's Final Ballet’ by the Ukrainian artist Triš.
Staff Pick: Gaiola Das Popozudas - My Pussy É O Poder (Gabrieu UK Garage Flip) Two minutes of pure intercontinental party pleasure, now on Nina.
Staff Pick: Burna - Andromeda Clubby bass permutations infected with a healthy dose of funky from an Australian producer.
Community Picks is a weekly series where artists submit a release to be voted on by members of the Nina community. The release with the most votes receives editorial coverage. This week’s winner is “Bella” by Guess.
Staff Pick: Jack Ward - Smooth Cream Pop Sprightly dance music for shiny nights.
Though Horse Vision only has a grip of singles out, the Swedish duo has already hit on a somewhat definitive, future-forward guitar music aesthetic. Simply put: This band writes anthems that you will want to put on repeat.
Staff Pick: Pike - Fallen Angel / Concrete Dub Saturnine drum-driven experiments; professional head nodders, take note.
For the newest edition of Best Songs, we caught up with Irene Lee, whose stream-of-consciousness, Zoomer-coded online video content, which explores the nuances of vibing, vaping, and partying your way through your early 20s, has earned her a passionate following.
Staff Pick: Burning Bush - Demo 2024 Raging, agitated hardcore from Kansas City, now on Nina.
Staff Pick: flirty800, Memphy - Just Like That A YOLO burner is ready to destroy dancefloors worldwide.