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The Verge's weekend editor revisits Soul Glo's 2022 record Diaspora Problems while awaiting the band's new album, NA I'M GON GRAB ALLAT, due in January. Two singles from the upcoming release have already come out, and the piece walks through standout tracks from Diaspora Problems, including 'Gold Chain Punk (whogonbeatmyass?)' and 'Coming Correct.'
Lego has revealed a new collaboration with Daft Punk, the French electronic duo that disbanded in 2021. The partnership will reportedly cover products, content and brand experiences, though specific sets or release dates have not yet been detailed.
Lego and Daft Punk announced an official set recreating the duo's 2007 Alive tour pyramid stage, based on a fan-built model that won Lego's Music to Our Ears contest in 2020. The company is collaborating with fan creator Patrick Harboun, known as RobotRock, to finalize the design, with full details promised in 2027.
Hosts Carolina Hidalgo and Marcus Parks have relaunched their music history podcast No Dogs in Space with a fourth season called Punk 2.0, kicking off with a multi-part look at the New York Dolls. The hiatus stretched over two years, partly because the pair abandoned an earlier planned season on the Washington DC punk scene after research into Bad Brains and the scope of the project became untenable.
Customer experience consultant Adrian Swinscoe and other business advisers are drawing on punk subculture's anti-establishment, do-it-yourself values as a corrective to corporate practices they see as overly metric-driven and impersonal. Swinscoe reportedly grew frustrated that his field had drifted toward benchmarks and abstract data at the expense of genuine customer connection, prompting him to look to punk's ethos for inspiration.
The Verge's weekend editor reflects on rediscovering the Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP while re-ripping old CDs, calling it a standout artifact of the mid-2000s NYC dance punk scene. The 16-minute release is described as built on synth blasts, chanted vocals and syncopated percussion layered over a disco-stomp foundation, distinguishing the band from contemporaries like LCD Soundsystem and The Rapture.