Brand new video from L.A / Montreal based duo LOL Boys in support of their Shlohmo remixed single ‘Changes’. A considerable departure from their original and from Star Slinger’s recent reworking, Shlohmo’s rendition is by nature a lot more introspective and shadowy, as is it’s all black & white video…

Another eccentric video follow-up to ‘A Hundred Million Roses’, this one also happens to feature quirky girl rapper Kilo Kish in it at one point. Dental jewelery, mountains of cocaina, ballerina b*tches and designer ig’nance, just another day in the neighborhood jungle really. The A$AP MOB’s Lord$ Never Worry mixtape that also features Rocky’s ‘Purple Kisses’, will be available to download online come the 28th of August.

Here goes Delilah’s new video for ‘Shades of Grey’, the new single taken off her critically acclaimed debut album From the Roots Up, which peaked at #5 in the UK charts last month. The single sees Delilah’s distinctive vocals permeating an ethereal soundbed of twinkling keys and dramatic build ups; It also reinforces her angular approach to more progressive ‘shades’ of Pop. And for that, her recent chart success should not be overlooked, it’s refreshing to see a major label backed artist unafraid to show off her edges - especially ones like Delilah who bravely explore the (industry) taboo of experimental R&B and takes it chart-ward.

Kooky Parisian artiste Piu Piu, who back in February wooed us with her uber-cool cover of Rick Ross’ ‘B.M.F’, recently returned with another cold-as-crème glacée (hope that don’t sound like Del Boy) single titled ‘Almighty Sun’. Her native swag dallies like a lazy afternoon spent riding a bicycle aimlessly, with a thatched basket full of happy pills. All of that to a pro-ratchet beat with juxtaposing bursts of Moog’ish bass taking Boogie down south. It’s like Juicy J buying flowers for a Godard muse.

It’s been three years since P.O.S released his seminal Never Better album; A purposefully abrasive, no holds barred Punk-Rock Hip Hop album that also incidentally went on to mark one of 2009′s best rap releases. His new single ‘Bumper’ however marks a shift in musical direction, focusing less on the infusion of Hip Hop with Punk-Rock, and more on the electronic tendencies of European dance music. But before you assume he’s gone “all Guetta” (as if), press play and have listen – you’ll quickly realise that P.O.S still very much retaines the organised-anarchy that made Never Better such an enthralling album (…and yes, I’m specifically talking about those effin’ drums), only this time he’s incorporating Euro-continental club influences.

Collaborating with German DJs Boyz Noise & Housemeister, Gayngs’ Ryan Olson, and Innerpartysystem’s Patric Russel his new album We Don’t Even Live Here is due out October 23rd via Rhymesayers.

Taken off their new Phone Line EP, Eglo Records chanteuse Fatima and labelmate producer Funkineven drop off the brand new video for the projects dancefloor reload title track. The song itself, sounds like imaginary coitus with a 56 dial-up and the colourful video has a faint whiff of art-escort with Funkineven like a Cameo-era pimp. The service is in heavy demand and rotation for all the Future-Funk astronauts right now. Out now on iTunes. There’s some vintage Sugababes in that vocal harmony.

It’d been six years since ‘Me & U’ stormed sweatboxes and chav habitats the world over, and her comeback record (after the other dismally promoted ’09 comeback record that was actually quite good), dance-pop masquerade King of Hearts was devoid of attitude and held few candles to any of the earlier Ryan Leslie produced material. Like, really, a first-pump over a bump n’ grind?! This latest Rico Love produced number ‘Balcony’ instead mimes the downtempo ‘Toronto sound’ transferring it over to a Big Apple setting. It isn’t particularly earth shattering and vocally leaves a lot to be desired, though it does have an inevitable slow-burning nuance that feels pretty nice, but at the same time like an ID theft of ‘Marvins Room’ - right down to the chord intervals.

Her long-planned second album also titled King Of Hearts is unlikely to come out next month, extending the myth of Cassie. But before a hipster tear is shed, this track will however feature on forthcoming mixtape Rock-A-Bye Baby out soon. She’s working on that at the same time as the phantom sophmore…

A broody, almost Portishead-vibing slow jam from producer Warren Xclnce, featuring fellow Brit singer/songwriter Etta Bond – herself no stranger to making trippy erotica – we pretty much fired off our first 22Tracks earlier this year with ‘Come Over’ in the final list. Here the North London producer’s guitar swirls as frozen chords stab the dark over anesthetized boom claps, crossing the divide between jazzy Dilla-off-shoot swing, Geoff Barrow noir and narcotic R&B. Bond’s songwriting I always find quite commanding; she fans herself under Xclnce’s ventilated production with a spidery melody, that creeps and crawls across the beat spinning a web of inviting rhetoric. If this track was a cloud of second-hand smoke, it would be exiting a gun. Great record, psychological, sensual and a bit dangerous.

‘Examine Me’ is from a forthcoming Warren Xclnce EP of other druggy joints like the Jill Scott interpolating ‘Freedom’, as Etta Bond’s Emergency Room LP with Raf Riley that bore sensationalist fun ‘Boring Bitches’ is out now to download free here.

After our introduction of Azekel back in March, it appears he’s making headway by fine tuning his experimental approach to post-modernised classic R&B (bar that odd dubstep-pop misstep). Nearly as enticing as his first single ‘Stuck’, ‘That Feeling’ shifts gear but doesn’t reinvent the wheel, nor does it need to in being a simple, sweet ditty. Whereas someone like a Frankie O, for example, may utter “and the peaches and the mangoes, you could sell for me”, East London-bred Azekel asks “can I have another portion of you with medium fries?” It would come across as anything but ham-fisted were it not for the saving grace of British cheek, schoolboy charm and a dulcet hook.

Harlem rapstress Azealia Banks has announced a new release date for her much anticipated debut album Broke With Expensive Taste. Marking her third project of 2012 (following her 1991 EP & Fantasea mixtape), the out-spoken starlet has now officially confirmed February 12th 2013 as the day her LP will be released. A relatively radical jump from the previously announced September launch, but with her latest DAZED magazine cover controversy and her non-stop spouts with other rappers, I’m pretty confident that that delay won’t have much affect on public interest or demand…