EDM producer i_o has passed away at the age of 30, after a short experimental pop solo career, and a pop highlight this year, EDM.com reports. Throughout his career, i_o explored new methods of music production and dissemination with an artistic philosophy rooted in the idea that "everything can be hacked". This year he released three EPs for mau5trap, the independent record label founded by deadmau5, and collaborated with Grimes on 'Violence' from her record 'Miss Anthropocene'.

Grimes is preparing a new online exhibition 'Selling Out', where she’ll be selling drawings, prints, photographs, and conceptual pieces, Bloomberg reports. The most notable piece in the collection is a conceptual piece, also called 'Selling Out', which finds Grimes selling part of her soul for the “best offer”. The idea behind it: "'Selling Out' is executed as a contract in which Grimes sells a fraction of her soul, formalizing the idea that every time an artist sells a piece of their art, part of the soul is sold with it".

'Miss_Anthrop0cene' is Grimes' darkest and most ambitious work, with each of its "10 tracks an embodiment of mortality and how humankind is inching ever closer to extinction", Consequence of Sound says in a review (grade B+). Speaking of the concept of the album, its title is a play on words - a combination of “misanthrope” and “Anthropocene” - with songs speaking of mortality and how humankind is inching ever closer to extinction. Sonically, there's a lot there - Bollywood-inspired melodies, drum and bass, folk, Britpop, dance, nu-metal, indie rock...

A few interesting songs (+videos) these days: Grimes shared music video for her new single ‘Delete Forever’, about the opioid crisis, the latest from her forthcoming album 'Miss Anthropocene' (out next week); New Zealand rockabilly queen Tami Neilson dropped 'Queenie Queenie', an anthem of empowerment for women; Azealia Banks dropped a bass-heavy/strings driven new song, a bilingual, English-Spanish 'Nirvana'; sister duo CocoRosie relives their roller rink memories on their new track 'Restless', from 'Put the Shine On', the band's first album in five years; Human Impact is the new band of Unsane, Swans and Cop Shoot Cop members, and they shared their new single. attitude-heavy 'Consequences' off their debut album (due 3/13 via Ipecac); Beirut-based experimental musician Sary Moussa is ambient and minimalist on his debut album 'Imbalance' (out March 6), as well as on the single 'In Praise of Shadows'; producer Tornado Wallace dropped a new video 'Midnight Mania', a psychedelic bit with 'Avatar'-like characters sexy-dancing, it's a step away from being too strange...

Grimes made a playlist with her, Bjork, Massive Attack, Cocteau Twins and others on in, lobbying to make "ethereal" a genre. She usually disagrees with the idea of genre as such, and believes her music "doesn't fit into any existing format or genre" and "therefore cannot be on playlists or radio", Brooklyn Vegan reports. She […]

Grimes has shared another single from her upcoming album, a guitar-heavy dark and ambient song 'My Name Is Dark'. Grimes' YouTube channel says the song was written, produced, performed, and engineered by her. The album 'Miss Anthropocene' is due February 21. Listen to the song below.

“I feel like we’re in the end of art, human art. Once there’s actually AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), they’re gonna be so much better at making art than us" Grimes said in her recent appearance on astrophysicist Sean Carroll’s 'Mindscape' podcast, No good news from Grimes to concerts either - “I think live music is going to be […]

Caspian stay on the well-known post-rock path 'Flowers Of Light', but it's stilly just pleasing music; Moses Sumney is something totally different on 'Virile' - modern take on folk-soul, he directed the video himself (watch below); Trail of Dead decided to make pop-song music - 'Don't Look Down' is such; Modest Mouse seem young and […]

"I hit IO up and we made this song up in an hour… You know when you write a song so fast, it just feels perfect" - Grimes says about her new song 'Violence' (a good video, and a song, listen/watch below). She's been talking about her new album 'Miss_Anthropocene' since March.

Grimes shared her workout regimen with Adidas, and, well, it's so crazy it might actually be true. Here it is in it's full and bizarre beauty (Instagram original): "My training is a 360 approach. I first maintain a healthy cellular routine where I maximize the function of my mitochondria with supplements such as NAD+, Acetyl […]

Grimes has recently changed her name to "c", because of her relationship with Elon Musk, saying “you just have to totally untether your personality from your public persona”. C, real name Claire Boucher, told Cultured magazine "I don’t want to use that name anymore. I don’t want to use that face anymore. Because it now […]

Grimes has officially announced her upcoming album - the LP is titled 'Miss_Anthropocene' and Grimes described it on an Instagram post as “a concept album about the anthropomorphic goddess of climate Change.” “Each song will be a different embodiment of human extinction as depicted through a Pop star Demonology,” Grimes continued. No release date yet. […]

Plenty are going to be released, and Spin is especially excited about these: Sky Ferreira, The Weeknd, Grimes, Weezer, Chance the Rapper, Vampire Weekend, My Bloody Valentine, 2 Chainz, Avril Lavigne, Beirut, Carly Rae Jepsen, Cass McCombs, Cherry Glazerr, Chromatics, Deerhunter, Die Antwoord, Fidlar, Girlpool, Janet Jackson, Kanye West, Lana Del Rey, Mandy Rogers, Panda Bear, […]