Dev Hynes to return home to the capital for Village Underground show    

Last month, Dev Hynes released the silky, woozy, generally excellent Cupid Deluxe, his second album as Blood Orange, and it was one of our favorite LPs of the year. Today, Hynes posted a non-album track, “West Drive (Profit Vocal Dub),” on Soundcloud, writing that it’s “1 of roughly a million cuts that did...

Putting together her great 2012 EP True, the EP that turned her into an indie sensation, Solange Knowles worked closely with Dev Hynes, who records as Blood Orange. Hynes worked as a producer, songwriter, and musician on the EP, and the record gives a sense of two voices figuring out how to intertwine with each [...]

While honoring Blood Orange’s Cupid Deluxe as last week’s Album Of The Week, Tom noted a powerful connection at work: “Friends singer Samantha Urbani is Hynes’s girlfriend, and on Cupid Deluxe, she’s also his Snoop Doggy Dogg, an effortlessly smooth stoner-pop vocalist who steals entire songs without even necess...

Last week Death Grips dropped a new album out of nowhere — a really good new album — but considering it’s a spontaneous digital, free release, we decided it fit better in MOTW than AOTW (plus we wanted to give Blood Orange’s awesome new album some love). But let’s just get straight into it, becau...