MusicPlaylistMusic / 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 MORE7 of Chase Infiniti’s favourite K-pop tracksMeet The Deep, K-pop’s antihero ‘This is our Nirvana!’: Are Geese Gen Z’s first great rock band?10 of Yung Lean’s best collabs‘We’re like brother and sister’: Yung Lean and Charli xcx in conversationIs art finally getting challenging again?The only tracks you need to hear from November 2025Inside the world of Amore, Spain’s latest rising starLella Fadda is blazing a trail in the Egyptian music sceneThe rise of Sweden’s post-pop undergroundNeda is the singer-songwriter blending Farsi classics with Lily Allen 6 Flog Gnaw artists on what’s inspiring them right now