Music / PlaylistMusic / PlaylistThe only tracks you need to hear in AugustThe month’s best new music, with tracks by Normani, Missy Elliott, Velvet Negroni, and moreShareLink copied ✔️August 30, 2019August 30, 2019TextSelim Bulut In this month’s new music round-up, we’re featuring Normani’s killer crossover moment, “Motivation”, Missy Elliott’s old school comeback “Throw it Back”, and a genre-hopping banger from Velvet Negroni, “Kurt Kobain”. We also include some under-the-radar cuts, including rising UK songwriters Phoebe Green and M.T. Hadley, Dazed100 producer Object Blue, and LA experimentalist vōx. Although we post these round-ups at the end of every month, we update the playlist regularly for our subscribers – so be sure to follow us on Spotify and Apple Music if you can’t stand to wait for new tracks. Otherwise, listen to the playlist below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORECorridos tumbados: A guide to Mexico’s most controversial music genreSekou is the 21-year-old baritone making 70s soul cool againDon’t Be Dumb: The top 5 features on A$AP Rocky’s new album The rise of ‘Britainicana’: How Westside Cowboy are reshaping UK indieR!R!Riot is Taiwan’s pluggnb princessWhen did UK underground rap get so Christian? Why listening parties are everywhere right nowA night out with Feng, the ‘positive punk’ of UK UgDoppel-gäng gäng gäng: 7 times artists used body doublesWesley Joseph is the Marty Supreme of R&B (only nicer) How Turnstile are reinventing hardcore for the internet ageWill these be the biggest musical moments of 2026?