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The influx of attitude-filled, female songstresses shows no sign of letting-up as Phlo Finister makes her mark, brooding and infectious as her peers. 

Now based in London, her Los Angeles background is wonderfully audible, evoking the sultry darkness of BANKS, but the industrial rhythms of MØ and all the vocal seduction of a Knowles sister. It’s a track that ticks the boxes then, with its cold, sexual theme juxtaposed by a sweeping catching chorus.

Check into ‘Hotel Miami’ below, you won’t be checking-out for the foreseeable.

Kaleidoscopic sounds from Vancouver, courtesy of Heartbeat(s).

Internet-savvy beat duo LOL Boys are having a (probably indefinite) pause in operations, although it hasn’t stopped band member Jerome LOL churning out a stash of remixes, edits and originals. Fellow LOL Boy Markus Garcia, meanwhile, has decamped to Vancouver and started up a new alias, Heartbeat(s).

Debut album Home Remedies arrives courtesy of Vancouver cassette imprint 1080p, also responsible for releases from M/M and scruffy house producer Bobby Draino. The LP is a real grab-bag, designed to match the eclectic and rough’n'ready feel of the mixtapes he listened to as a teenager: limber deep house, scrambled acid and ghettobass sounds all make an appearance. Dance Mania and Traxx are pinpointed as influences, and 1080p promise “heavy Detroit feelings leaking out of 303 twists.”

Home Remedies is available now on cassette and digital. Closing number ‘(We) Knew All Along’ – a granular techno track with echoes of Terekke and Svengalisghost – is available to stream below, as is a 15-minute album sampler. [via Exclaim]

Home Remedies:
1. Hocus Pocus (ft. Angelina Lucero)
2. Long Night Ahead
3. T.T.T. (Twerk Team Tryouts)
4. Brick & Birds
5. South Shore
6...

Yeezus is upon us – and you can be sure that a swarm of remixes will follow in its wake

One of the early remixes arrives, fittingly, from Brenmar - another Chicago-raised musician building his own warped brand of club music. Last heard injecting some adrenaline into Brownstone’s 1994 slow jam ‘If You Love Me’, Brenmar takes a different path on his ‘New Slaves remix: in his words,

Ah, to be a fly on the studio wall during the making of Kanye West

As a band whose first record was released when they were teenagers, Smith Westerns

Last we heard from Eminem, he was engaged in a messy legal squabble with Facebook – so it’sa relative pleasure to finally have some new music to tout. 

A segment of new track, ‘Symphony In H’ premiered last night on DJ Tony Touch’s  ‘Toca Tuesdays’ mix show. In contrast to the agonised navel-gazing and soul-searching of recent releases, ‘Symphony In H’ sees the rapper spitting over the sort of playful baroque lilt that characterised The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show. 

The track will appear on Tony Touch’s Piecemaker 3: The Return Of The 50 MCs, which arrives on July 9. Eminem’s eight studio album, which has been under construction since early 2012, with Dr. Dre suggesting the rapper was “finishing up” the record back in March; Dre and No I.D. are among those expected to appear on the record.

Arctic Monkeys debuted their new song