In the midst of headlines depicting the malevolent aggression exhibited by ICE, political bickering, Supreme Court shake-ups and other disasters—Week in Pop showcases the latest breakthroughs in pop arts that might have flown under the media scanning radars. In the latest top stories, we present news that Georgia Anne Muldrow signed to Brainfeeder and delivered the overwhelmingly wonderful and wondrous future flying single "Overload"; Versing signed to Hardly Art, announced a tour and delivered the righteous and radical electric single "Silver Dollar" along with the the Efrain visual; Los Angeles polymath icon phem delivered the crown and throne claiming single "crypto bitxh" produced by AO Beats and Robokid; Los Angeles pop monarch Sydney Banta presented the super-styling video for the perfect pop anthem and aptly titled L.A. Girlfriend single "Wild" off the REGINA EP; Teyana Taylor delivered the highly anticipated Ye-produced album K.T.S.E.; Beyoncé and Hova took the world for an exclusive tour of the Louvre in the visual for "APESHIT" off the album The Carters; Quavo and Joseph Desrosiers delivered a look at the visual for Migos' track "Narcos"; Pale Green Things shared the serpentine sentiments equipped with slithering synths on "Snakes"; NYC's own Brasstracks shared the smooth horn sun shining day of "Stay There" ft. Xavier Omär; Seattle stars Wimps announced the new album Garbage People available July 13 via Kill Rock Stars with a look at the vintage computerized Marcy Stone-Francois visual for the punky DIY single "Giant Brain" about beautiful minds; Cassa Nova delivered the sweet and stunning album Sunset Rollercoaster 落日飛車; Nashville artist Tessa Violet delivered the Jordan Harms & Isaac White supermarket-styling visual for "Crush" with news that the album Bad Ideas will be available August 3; Nashville based artist J. Marco dropped the triumphant new track “Truth"; LA group SadGirl have signed to Suicide Squeeze with news of their 7" arriving August 17 with a listen to the so electric dance of "Breakfast For 2"; Beach House delivered the dark riding Alistair Legrand (Victoria Legrand's brother) visual from for "Black Car"; The Vryll Society cast an incandescent light on the edges of the globe with "Light At The Edge Of The World"; Ariana Grande dropped the bright-lit pop rocker "The Light is Coming" ft. Nicki Minaj off the upcoming album Sweetener available August 17; Dentist delivered the single bottle-breaking pure pop of "Corked" off the upcoming album Night Swimming available July 20 from Cleopatra Records; Chicago's Ohmme (Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart) delivered the festive Elijah Alvarado visual for "Icon" with the announcement of their debut album Parts available August 24 via Joyful Noise Recordings; Princess Chelsea delivered the creative fun with AV visuals for the new single "I Love My Boyfriend" off the upcoming album The Loneliest Girl available September 7 via Lil' Chief; Hala presented the lyric visual for the upbeat all-apologies of "Sorry"; Sleep Party People unveiled the gorgeous new singles "4th Drawer Down" and "The Mind Still Travels" courtesy of Joyful Noise Records; Jazz Cartier delivered the Abaz, DZL and X-Plosive single for "Which One"; Western Mass artist PussyVision delivered the nu-tech electro-exhibitions of REPLICATE://; Basement Revolver presented the sincere and sentimental door "Knocking" single from the debut album Heavy Eyes available August 24; Matt DeMello & The Significant Looks delivered the electrified energy of "Don't Mind If I Do!" ft. Anti-Matter Horns off the forthcoming Counterpoint EP arriving later this year via Post-Echo; Queen Kwong delivered the album Love Me to Death; hear the satisfying sounds of "Kentucky Smooth" from Hypoluxo's upcoming album Running On A Fence available September 21 via Broken Circles; Hatchie delivered the life in motion and transit visuals for "Bad Guy" courtesy of Joe Agius; LA's Sego delivered the summer single of solitude titled "Be Alone"; King Dude, aka TJ Cowgill, announced the Music To Make War To available August 24, presenting the gothic, macabre visual for the title track by Shaun Bass and Carmel Koster; Amy Steele presented the somber reckoning of absentia lyric-video for "Long Way Home" from the EP Memories in Watercolour; Toronto's Gill Bondy, Hayden Stewart and Binod Singh, delivered the nature jaunting video for “12 Days”; Death Grips delivered the gnarly video for "Shitshow" directed by Zach Hill and Galen Pehrson;

the Knife's Olof Dreijer remixed Fever Ray's "Wanna Slip";The Junior League presented the record store perusing visual for the power pop anthem "Teenage Bigstar"; Balloon Ride Fantasy presented the synth-starred single "Arcadia" off BRF available July 20; Natalie Holmes presented the solace and sanctuary seeking single "Hideout" available June 29; Colorado dream weavers A Shoreline Dream presented velocities of vision and volition with "In The Ready Sound" off the upcoming Waitout EP available July 6 via Latenight Weeknight Records; Kraus delivered the passionate "More"; Leeds' Talkboy unveiled their single debut of maternal and matriarchal concerns and constraints "Mother"; Cibo Matto's Miho Hatori announced the upcoming New Optimism debut EP Amazon To LeFrak available July 27 via Phantom Limb and dropped the high-flying and super-styling jam "Jet Setters"; Tyler, the Creator dropped the loosies with the serene DIY track "Peach Fuzz" and the jubilant spin on Jacquees' "No Validation" with "Gelato"; Oscar & Sarah Bonito collaborated together for the video game inspired single & visual for "1UP"; Alien Boy singed to Tiny Engines with word of the upcoming album Sleeping Lessons available August 31, delivering the new earnest and intimate anthem "Somewhere Without Me"; Melbourne's Harp Samuels delivered the electric-piano toned single "Breathe" off the September 14-slated album of the same name; Bayli delivered the DIY-NYC enjoying visual for "MYOB: Or whatever"; Meg Myers announced the upcoming album Take Me To The Disco available July 20 via 300 Entertainment, delivering a listen to the tumultuous oceanic emotions of "Jealous Sea"; Ro Ransom delivered some sunny DIY summer sentiments with the "Thong Song Freestyle"; Echo Courts delivered the transient perspectives featured in the Mike Rodway video for "Room With a View"; Warm Drag (Paul Quattrone of Oh Sees, !!! with Vashti Windish) announced their In The Red self-titled available August 31 and dropped the psych-spinning single "Cave Crawl"; Ginla delivered the serene swimming single "Lomo" via Terrible Records; YG dropped the wealth flaunting single "Big Bank" ft. Nicki Minaj, 2 Chainz and Big Sean; CupcakKe dropped the new single "Hot Pockets"; Tender Age shared a viewing of the DIY video for the vision-surveying single "Don't Mind" from Michael Eff, Carole Anne Pecchia and Christopher Paul Klarer off the album Becoming Real Forever available July 9 via SINIS Recordings; Pusha T dropped the cool cruising visual for "If You Know You Know"; MNEK delivered the colorful and creative dance-inspiring video for "Colour" ft. Hailee Steinfeld; Clyde Guevara presented the opulent visual for the statement of self single "Still Illin"; Bjørn Torske jump-started the party with "Gata" off Byen available July 6 via Smalltown Supersound; Ward delivered the sentimental strolls with the visual for "Stand Me"; DJ Muggs and MF DOOM delivered the sinewy atmospheres of "Deathwish" ft. Freddie Gibbs; Calpurnia delivered the traveling adventures of life on the road with the video for the single "Greyhound"; Sudakistan shared the body-rocking single "Whiplash" from the new album Swedish Cobra available August 31 via PNKSLM Recordings; Underworld and Iggy Pop announced the collaborative EP Teatime Dub Encounters available July 27 via Caroline International and delivered the reflective single "I'll See Big"; Freddie Gibbs delivered the self-titled mixtape; MIKE dropped the album renaissance man; Frankie Cosmos' collaborative "An Induced Album"; St. Vincent presented the Zev Deans clubbing visual for "Slow Disco"; Jay Rock shared the Dave Free heavy visual for the introspective "OSOM" ft. J. Cole; Kamasi Washington presented the AG Rojas visuals for "Street Fighter Mas"; Florence and the Machine delivered the grand dancing visual for "Big God"; The Smashing Pumpkins unveiled the Nick Koenig video for "Solara"; Visitors brought the performance view for their single "Pollyanna” from the debut album Crest available July 13; Kanye discussed ambitious plans; How to Dress Well returned with the new single "Vacant Boat (shred) | Non-Killing 1 | The Anteroom | False Skull 1"; Nina Simone's Tryon, North Carolina childhood home is now a National Treasure; new My Bloody Valentine song debuted at Meltdown festival; Alice Coltrane compilation Spiritual Eternal—The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings will be available September 7 via Real Gone Music; Sir Barry Gibb knighted;

Jerry Castle shared the holiday coastal dreams with the performance pop visual for "Lil Bit" off the album Brand New Hello available June 22; Jealous of the Birds delivered the organic and acoustic rendering of "Plastic Skeletons" featured off the forthcoming EP The Moths of What I Want Will Eat Me in My Sleep available July 13; Nine Inch Nails debuted the new single "Ahead of Ourselves" and covered Joy Division's iconic track "Digital"; The Dig delivered a listen to their inventive and addictive new single "Million Dollar Man" off the EP Afternoon With Caroline; VOILÀ delivered the ecstatic energy of "Anyway";Tash Sultana presented the Glenn Mossop co-directed visual of sensational summer vibes for "Salvation" featured off the upcoming album debut Flow State available August 31 via Mom + Pop; Marissa Nadler delivered a haunting cover of Happy Rhodes' "Where Do I Go" from the Electrophia compilation and announced the new album For My Crimes available September 28 via Sacred Bones/Bella Union sharing the holistic title track ft. Angel Olsen; Bad Bad Hats dropped the expressive explorations of discourse with the new single "Talk With Your Hands" off the forthcoming album Lightning Round available August 3 via Afternoon Records; Nick Brewer delivered the home movie Father's Day visuals for "Many Moods: Good Man"; Lauren Waller delivered the perceptive pop visions of "Can't See"; Zena Carlota shared the evocative and electic audio tapestries with The Confidence of Birds; Mitski delivered the introspective video from Christopher Good for "Nobody"; Lil Yachty & Vallee delivered the wavy new summer jam "Wombo"; Kady Rain delivered the pop single of breakups and longings with "Lonely One"; Valley Queen delivered the romantic rolling inspirations of "Ride" off the debut album Supergiant available July 13 via Roll Call Records; Black Grapefruit delivered the atmospheric "Omygod" off the upcoming album All My Relations available August 10; Mr Twin Sister delivered a listen to the style and state of mind seeking single "Jaipur"; Jealous of the Birds presented the lyric video for the energetic affections of "Russian Doll"; Jakarta artist NIKI delivered the absolutely epic single "Warpaint" via 88rising; Half Waif presented the stunning Kenna Hynes visual for "Ocean Scope" off the Cascine album Lavender; Jozzy pushed on through the fray and fire with the track "Push Thru"; get weird and belligerent with Louis Cole via the entertaining video for "When You're Ugly" ft. Genevieve Artadi; Free Cake For Every Creature dazzled the world once again with the perfect pop of "In Your Car" off the new album The Bluest Star available August 3 via Double Double Whammy; Spooky Cool presented the epic and stunning Sho Kellam & Zavi Harman visual for the anthem "Strange Rooms" off their debut EP Every Thing Ever available August 3 via Citrus City Records; Smokescreens delivered the LA rooftop rocking visual from Steel O’Neil for "Waiting For Summer" off Used To Yesterday available July 13 via Slumberland; Charli XCX unveiled the industrious Bradley & Pablo video for "5 in the Morning"; Chance the Rapper revealed that he's working with Childish Gambino and Kanye; The Mountain Goats wrote a song for Sasha Banks; Dr. Dre is working on a Marvin Gaye movie, also Dre along with Jimmy Iovine lost some coin in a Beats lawsuit; Cardi B's marriage to Offset reveal; Drake delivered the trailer for Scorpion; YG sued over Las Vegas rumble; Jim Jones busted over narcotics and firearm charge; protest party planned to counter Morrissey's Manchester show; Kinks reunion rumors; Brooklyn artist Nick Messitte presented an episode of "Salmon's Run"; buzz for David Lynch's Festival of Disruption happening in LA October 13-14, along with David Lynch's open letter to the president; why Third Man Records' Ben Blackwell hates Discogs; Radiation City presented the world with their farewell EP titled CODA courtesy of Polyvinyl Record Co.; Sasquatch! Music Festival founder Adam Zacks stepped down; a bleak report on median musician earnings; Maynard James Keenan responded to allegations of rape; Azealia Banks launched a GoFundMe to sue Russell Crowe; Lisa Prank versus Elon Musk; Havoc of Mobb Deep dropped posthumous Prodigy freestyles; and we remember Joe Jackson, Steve Soto of the Adolescents, Harlan Ellison, Jimmy Wopo, XXXTentacion and Vinnie Paul.

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With everything from politics to playoffs playing with our collective emotions—Week in Pop brings a cornucopia of media buzz obfuscated by all the latest panic-inducing headlines. The latest top stories we're following is news that GABI signed to Double Double Whammy announcing that the anticipated upcoming album will arrive this fall, performing at Roulette (under given name Gabrielle Herbst) as part of an opera residence May 31 at 8pm; Tyler, the Creator presented a look at the Louis "Panch" Perez studio chilling visual for "435"; George Clinton released the anticipated new hotly anticipated Parliament record Medicaid Fraud Dogg; Oh Sees announced the new album Smote Reverser available August 17 via Castle Face & delivered a listen to the world-ripping new single "Overthrown"; CupcakKe delivered a look at the arcade-action packed video for "Quiz" directed by Logan Fields; Princess Nokia presented a look at the Milah Libin video for "Look Up Kid" off the A Girl Cried Red mixtape via Rough Trade; Death Grips released the new electric-insect buzzing single "Flies" from the forthcoming album Year of the Snitch; Tancred brought the grand ballroom burner "Something Else" off the new album Nightstand available June 1 via Polyvinyl, touring this fall with Joy Formidable; Jay Rock announced the new album Redemption available June 15 via TDE; Johnny Jewel released Themes For Television via Italians Do It Better with a look at the Radka Leitmeritz video for haunting suspenseful celluloid of "Red Door"; Montreal based Lou Phelps unveiled a flashy look at the Pique visual for the explanatory ode to impulsive instincts of "Want To (For The Youth)" produced by KAYTRANADA; Blushh delivered the power pop anthem "Do I Look Tired?" from the upcoming EP Thx 4 Asking courtesy of Yellow K Records available June 15; 5 Toronto's Witch Prophet released the bewitched & bewildering album wonder The Golden Octive via 88 Days of Fortune & shared a listen to the world altering lounge future psych single "Stars" produced by Old Smile; Jerry Paper, aka Lucas Nathan, has signed to Stones Throw with news of a new album arriving later this year & dropped the cool pop chrysalis of "Your Cocoon" co-produced by Badbadnotgood's own Matty Tavares; Lykke Li brought the world a look at the evening adventures seen through an iPhone for the "deep end" visual; The Myrrors announced the forthcoming album Borderlands available August 17 via Beyond Beyond is Beyond & delivered the wild ear & mind opening single "Awakening"; Skogebrandt delivered the new emotive & expressive single "Been You"; Brett Dennen delivered a look at the life affirming Craig Allen video for the joyful abandon of "Already Gone" from the EP Let's; Sevdaliza bridged parallel worlds via the Emmanuel Adjei visual for "DUALITY"; Omar Apollo delivered a listen to the smooth & sensational funk pop with "Ignorin" off the forthcoming Stereo EP available May 30; Silk City, comprised of Diplo and Mark Ronson, dropped the club-beat banger "Only Can Get Better" ft. Daniel Merriweather;

Rubblebucket announced the new album Sun Machine available August 24 via Grand Jury Music with a look at the pop-art styled Julia Barrett-Mitchell visual for "Fruity"; Guts Club delivered the jangly & twangy single "Pansy From the Hills" from the forthcoming third album Trench Foot available July 6; Henrik Appel announced the upcoming album Burning Bodies available June 29 via PNKSLM Recordings with a listen to the wind-tunnel tuned toward the future single "Tomorrow"; Mutual Benefit announced the new album Thunder Follows the Light available September 21 via Transgressive & shared the beautiful new singles "Storm Cellar Heart" and "New History"; Alynda Segarra and Hurray for the Riff Raff delivered the Puerto Rico filmed video from Kristian Mercado Figueroa for the passionate and human "Pa'lante"; Angel Olsen and My Morning Jacket's Jim James covered Sonny & Cher's "Baby Don't Go"; Goldfrapp delivered a listen to the electro-shining single "Ocean" ft. Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan; Cardi B delivered the Jora Frantzis visual of dubious romances for "Be Careful"; ASAP Rocky's elaborate album artwork reveal for the forthcoming third LP Testing; Golden Dawn Arkestra presented us a with a listen and look at the gaudy & mystic Ben Blanchard & Vanessa Pla video "Wings of Ra"; The Cool Kids shared the cool new summer cruising singles "OILBASS" ft. Boldy James "Ripple"; tour this summer with MOURN, Chastity delivered the live visual for "Chains" featured off the album Death Lust comes available July 13 via Captured Tracks; Hosannas provided a listen to the dance-floor shuffling single "Guitar Cop" from the upcoming album Picture Him Protecting You available July 12 from Fresh Selects; Gabriella Cohen delivered a look at the glamorous visual for "Music Machine" off the upcoming album Pink Is The Colour Of Unconditional Love available June 1 via Captured Tracks; Gassamer, aka LA artist Evan Reiner, shared the ambient worm "Encounter" off the upcoming album Imperishable available in July via Innovative Leisure; Stuart McLamb's The Love Language announced the upcoming album Baby Grand arriving August 3 via Merge and shared travelogue lyric video from Daniel Murphy for "Southern Doldrums" along with the night riding visual for "Castle in the Sky" from Daniel Murphy & Kevin Norris; The Gloomies offered the innovative summer sun steaming & dreaming single "Palms" from the upcoming album Romance available July 13 via Thrill Me; Lusitanian Ghosts delivered the canonical reflections on the rocker "Past Laurel" off their June 8 slated self-titled album; Denmark's own PBSM delivered the flashy bold & bright stormy single "Struck By Lightning"; Crystal Fighters brought the big bouncing summer dreaming visuals for "Boomin' In Your Jeep" courtesy of Warner Bros. Records; Maps & Atlases shared a listen to the smartly stitched single "Violet Threaded" from the upcoming Lightlessness Is Nothing New album available June 1 via Barsuk Records;

embrace the earnest & electric single "Big Train" taken off Pllush's upcoming debut album Stranger to the Pain available June 8 via Father/Daughter; currently on tour with WET, Samson, fka Samson The Truest, delivered the sweet jangle pop single "King Kong" ft. WET's Kelly Zutrau; Ovlov announced the new album TRU available July 20 via Exploding in Sound & shared the sweet scuzz studded jam "Spright"; Shy Layers delivered a look at the entrancing JD Walsh visual for "No Road" from the new album Midnight Marker available May 25 via Beats In Space; Jamie Isaac delivered a therapeutic listen to the title track off the upcoming album (4:30) Idler available June 1 via Marathon Artists; Barrie delivered infinite worlds of wonder with the single "Tal Uno" courtesy of Winspear; MNNQNS dropped a look at the fancy Rod Maurice performance visual for "Tiger On A Leash" found off their Advertisement EP available now via FatCat Records; Baloji instantly ignited the impromptu dance party with the Shingai remix of "Soleil De Volt" originally off 137 Avenue Kaniama courtesy of Bella Union; RDTK presented the electro-aesthetic visuals for "Affective Forecasting" off the forthcoming Human Resources available June 29 via Denovali Records; Talitha Rise shared a look at the reflective and intimate visual for "Chapel Bell" off the upcoming album An Abandoned Orchid House available June 1; ATL rising emcee Skooly offered a look at the HDotRoss visuals for the boy band stunting & styling "Baccstreet Boy" ft. production by The Honorable C-N.O.T.E.; LIARS announced their first original soundtrack 1/1 available July 20 via Mute & offered a preview via the visual for "Liquorice"; A Boogie wit da Hoodie announced The International Artist available June 20 via High Bridge / Atlantic Records delivering a listen to the sky-high soaring "Way Too Fly" ft. Davido; Minneapolis' Bad Bad Hats presented the covenants of hearts & spirits on the new single "Write It On Your Heart" from the forthcoming Lightning Round album available August 3 via Afternoon Records; Jakarta, Indonesia artist NIKI delivered the debut Zephyr EP along with the lavish and opulent Saint & Miles Trahan visual for "Newsflash!"; LA radical Broken Baby snubbed the current state of the bloated patriarchy with the sharp striking "Year of the Fat Man"; Nickodemus presented a look at the Emanuele Kabu animated seahorse sailing visuals for the rich rhythm rider "Caballito De Mar" ft. La Yegros off the album A Long Engagement from Wonderwheel Recordings; Billboard Music Awards buzz; POP Montreal buzz; Robyn dropped some demos; Meek Mill canceled his White House meeting; A$AP Bari arrested for sexual assault; Rich the Kid accused of domestic violence; R. Kelly sued for sexual battery; Glasgow mural tribute for Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit; we said goodbye to Andy Warhol's iconic Interview Magazine; and we remember the life and works of author Philip Roth and influential musician/producer Reggie Lucas.

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