Wherever Röyksopp are floating right now, it probably isn't Monday. "Happy Up Here", the first single from Norwegian duo's upcoming Junior, is a lightly percolating walk through the clouds, its rubbery synthesizers and wispy vocals suggesting a sunny-day equivalent to Air's Moon Safari (the French duo are a frequent point of comparison ...

Norwegian downtempo duo Röyksopp haven't blessed us with a proper album since The Understanding almost four years ago, but that's about to change. On their website, Torbjørn Brundtland and Svein Berge announced that Junior, their third album, will be coming out on March 23. This announcement is both good news, as the duo are ...

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, make way for Fever Ray. The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson has lifted the shroud of secrecy surrounding her previously mentioned solo project to reveal a debut album due next year and a lead-off single due much sooner. Get acquainted with Fever Ray by way of inaugural single "If I Had a Heart". You may reca...

Photos by Karin Dreijer AnderssonI'll bake the cake, you round up the candles: November 2009 marks the 150th birthday of Charles Darwin's epochal evolution text On the Origin of Species. And who better to commemorate the occasion than, okay, the Knife! With an opera?? Next thing you'll tell me Adam and Eve aren't actually my great-great-great-gr...

Kanye West, DJ Benzi, and Patrick "Plain Pat" Reynolds have put together a West remix compilation called Sky High. A-Trak, Diplo, Nick Catchdubs, Cousin Cole, Benzi, and plenty of others are among the remixers. Some of the remixes, such as A-Trak's grafting of The College Dropout's "Get 'Em High" onto the instrumental track from the Kni...