King Princess is the latest featured artist on Song Exploder with her song 'Let Us Die' which she wrote in a special place on a lake, while having relationship issues. Mikaela Straus breaks down the song, along with two of her collaborators on it: co-producer and co-writer Ethan Gruska, and multi-Grammy winning producer Mark Ronson. The song features Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins on drums, who died afterward. Also, Straus' father Oliver, gave the key engineering advice.

'Ohio' is a live favourite by King Princess; Moon Destroys have Mastodon's Troy Sanders on their psychedelic new song 'Blue Giant'; Myrkur go for strange, albeit easy-listening mix of Nordic folk and dream pop on 'Leaves od Yggdrasil'; Bay Area rapper The Jacka was killed in a 2015 shooting at 37 years old, and 'Can't Go Home' is his collaboration with Freddie Gibbs, coming out on his first posthumous album; Johanna Warren goes for simple and pretty on 'Bed of Nails'; Justin Bieber released a nice song 'Intentions' with a great message; The Strokes are back, drumless, with 'At the Door'; Poet laureate Simon Armitage launched a band LYR, mixing poetry, jazz and post-rock; Napalm Death released their first new songs in four years - an original 'Logic Ravaged by Brute Force' and a Sonic Youth cover 'White Cross'; I Break Horses go spacey psychedelia on 'I'll Be the Death of You'; Figazi people have a new band Coriky, much more laid down on 'Clean Kill'; Nigerian guitarist Mdou Moctar follows his last year's great 'Ilana' with a song 'Ibitlan', equally groovy and rich; Caroline Rose wrote 'Freak Like Me' because "I’ve always wanted to write a pretty song with the word ‘vomit’ in it"; Drain play just some straight punk-metal from California on 'Sick One'. Listening to all of these takes an hour or so, take that time, it's worth it!

King Princess has released a video for her new single ‘Prophet’ which sees her perform the song as a construction worker, lounge singer and American footballer. Throughout the video, a stalker films her playing football, is one of the waiters at the lounge bar King Princess sings and, at the end of the video, her […]

Brooklyn Vegan presents the newest songs published this week, and there's a few that stand out - Beyonce's 'Mood 4 Eva' with Jay-z and Childish Gambino, the most upbeat song from 'The Lion King: The Gift'; Adam Green's 'Cheating on a Stranger' with Florence Welch, "a gorgeous, lush track"; and King Princess' soulful and groovy […]

"We were trying to make fun tunes in the studio. I wasn't even aware right away that I was channelling my divorce, either — I just kind of had this overwhelming sense of melancholy that seemed to seep into this music" - producer and songwriter Mark Ronson tells Exclaim in an interview about his latest […]

The line-up at Hamburg’s Reeperbahn festival is full of fresh new artists who could very well reach next big thing status in the coming months. NME picked up 10 must-see acts: Amyl & The Sniffers, Black Midi, Boy Azooga, Geowulf, Great News, Halo Maud, King Princess, Men I Trust, Viagra Boys, WWWater.