Music

Prince, the Clash, Frankie Beverly, and Roxanne Shanté are among the Grammys’ 2025 Lifetime Achievement honorees, the Recording Academy announced today. Frankie Valli, Dr. Bobby Jones, and Taj Mahal round out the recipients; Erroll Garner, Glyn Johns and Tania León have been named as the Trustees Award winners. The Technical Grammy will go to the

Former President Barack Obama has shared his annual list of his favorite songs of the year, featuring Kendrick Lamar’s GNX track “Squabble Up,” “Yayo,” by rising Nigerian star Rema, and the Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman duet “Right Back to It.” Billie Eilish, Tyla, Fontaines D.C., Shaboozey, Beyoncé, Moses Sumney, Johnny Blue Skies, and more appear

Hozier returned to Saturday Night Live for the NBC program’s final pre-Christmas episode of 2024. He first played “Too Sweet,” which former President Barack Obama recently named one of his favorite songs of the year. The Irish musician then did the Pogues’ holiday classic “Fairytale of New York.” Watch Hozier’s SNL performances below. Hozier made

Alfa Anderson, the singer of some of disco group Chic’s biggest songs, including “Le Freak,” “Good Times,” “My Forbidden Lover,” “At Last I Am Free,” “I Want Your Love,” has died. The band’s Nile Rodgers shared the news on social media, but he did not disclose a cause of death. Anderson was 78 year old.

Spotify has formally rejected Drake’s recent accusations that the streaming giant helped Universal Music Group illegally inflate streams of Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us,” Billboard reports and Pitchfork can confirm. In court documents viewed by Pitchfork, Spotify refers to Drake’s petitions as “legally deficient” and writes that they “should be denied.” In filings

A new movie from the Weeknd, which shares a title with his forthcoming album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, has received a North American release date of May 16, 2025, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The suspense thriller stars Abel Tesfaye alongside Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan, with director Trey Edward Shults (known for the A24 movies

Quinn continues to collage ticklish hyperpop, breakneck digicore, and introspective bedroom-rap on Stars Fell on Trench. Released with little fanfare on a Sunday, the latest addition to her bewildering catalog smothers sung and rapped verses in impish, anarchic production, a barrage of samples, counter-harmonies, displaced genre tropes, and hectic sound effects swarming around earworms that

Questlove is set to direct a new documentary about the history of Saturday Night Live’s musical guests, Deadline and Variety report. To coincide with SNL’s five decades on the air, Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music will “feature untold stories behind the culture-defining, groundbreaking, and newsmaking musical performances, sketches, and cameos of the past

Pitchfork continues to celebrate the Year in Music with a club night tonight (Thursday, December 19). The event, presented by AdHoc, features RP Boo, Dazegxd b2b Intimacy Simulator, Anysia Kym, DJ Ess, Alphonse Pierre, and Mano. Due to delays with original venue Night Club 101 the event will now take place at the Brooklyn venue

Yesterday (December 17), Megan Thee Stallion filed a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court for a restraining order against Tory Lanez, reports The Associated Press. She claims that Lanez—who shot her multiple times in 2020 and is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence after being found guilty of felony charges of assault with a semiautomatic

Netflix has shared the first trailer for a forthcoming documentary about late Swedish DJ-producer Avicii, AKA Tim Bergling. Avicii — I’m Tim includes interviews with, among others, David Guetta and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and will be narrated by Bergling himself, using archival video and recordings. The documentary will be available to stream globally on December

The shortlists for the 2025 Academy Awards’ music categories are here. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named Daniel Blumberg, Bryce Dessner, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Hans Zimmer among the potential nominees for Best Original Score. Reznor and Ross are also Best Original Song nominees, as are Maren Morris, Pharrell Williams, and

SahBabii is going on tour in support of his new album, Saaheem. The rapper’s Resurrection Tour begins in February, in Houston, and is scheduled to conclude, on March 25, at Center Stage in the Atlantan’s hometown. See SahBabii’s tour dates below. SahBabii released Saaheem, his first new project in years, in November. The musician’s team

Lady Gaga, Chappell Roan, and Dua Lipa took part in the new Apple TV+ holiday special A Carpool Karaoke Christmas. As part of the special, Gaga debuted a new cover of the Christmas classic “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.” Listen to the new track below, and scroll down for the trailer for A Carpool

Zakir Hussain, the groundbreaking percussionist who helped bring the tabla and Indian classical music to the world stage, has died, his family said in a statement. He died, in a San Francisco hospital, of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a chronic lung disease. Hussain was 73 years old. Hussain was born in Mumbai to a tabla-playing father

Earlier this week, Surf Gang hosted their monthly show on NTS Radio, and they debuted a handful of new songs. One of the tracks, produced by Evilgiane and JonBoyIce, is an as-yet-untitled collaboration with Earl Sweatshirt. Listen to the whole episode below; the song with Earl Sweatshirt begins around the 3:56 mark. Earl Sweatshirt released

Gracie Abrams was the musical guest on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Chris Rock. The pop singer played “That’s So True” and “I Love You, I’m Sorry,” from her new album, The Secret of Us. Watch those performances and her SNL promo video with Rock and Heidi Gardner, below. Abrams has

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new projects from Bossman Dlow; Amen Dunes; Roc Marciano & Alchemist; Saint Etienne; Daniel Blumberg; YhapoJJ:

Röyksopp have shared a new album, Nebulous Nights – An Ambient Excursion Into Profound Mysteries—an ambient reinterpretation of their Profound Mysteries project. Röyksopp recorded Nebulous Nights live, weaving in auditory call-backs to their catalog. Listen to the record below. The Norwegian electronic music duo said in a press release, “Outside the pure listening pleasure, Nebulous

Pink Siifu has announced a new album: Black’!Antique will arrive January 27 via Dynamite Hill. Today, Siifu has shared a new single from the project, “WhoUWithHo+.” The track features Dallas-born producer and artist Kal Banx. Check it out below. Black’!Antique follows Siifu’s 2021 solo LP Gumbo’!, as well as a pair of collaborative albums from

The team behind Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right is opening a new music space within New York’s historic Pyramid Club. Night Club 101 will officially open in the East Village early next year, with a preview club night in partnership with Pitchfork on Thursday, December 19. The event is presented by AdHoc, and will feature

Midas Man, the long-in-the-works biopic of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, will be available to watch in North America from Wednesday, January 22, 2025, via Olyn. Starring Jacob Fortune-Lloyd in the lead role, the film charts Epstein’s life as a gay, Jewish maverick who was instrumental in the Beatles’ rise before his death, of an accidental

Sacred Bones Records has announced a new collection of music by the late cult artist Q Lazzarus. Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From the Motion Picture) is a 21-song compilation featuring a trove of unreleased tracks, all recorded between 1985 and 1995. The songs were retrieved from Q Lazzarus’ archive of

Magdalena Bay are extending their Imaginal Mystery Tour into 2025. Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin will perform in Australia in March before returning to North America for concerts in April and May. Supporting the experimental pop duo at most of the spring shows is Sam Austins. See Magdalena Bay’s tour dates below. Magdalena Bay announced

Victoria Monét has released a Christmas album featuring transformed instrumentals from her 2023 record, Jaguar II. On A Jaguar II Christmas: The Orchestral Arrangements, Monét, composer Maurice “Pirahnahead” Herd, and a live orchestra rework songs like “Cadillac (A Pimp’s Anthem)” into “Cadillac Christmas,” and “Stop (Askin’ Me 4Shyt)” into “Stop (Askin’ Me 4Gifts).” Listen to

Elvis Costello has announced 2025 tour dates where he’ll play music from the early years of his career. On the June and July stops of the Radio Soul! Tour, Costello and the Imposters will play songs taken from 1977’s My Aim Is True, 1978’s This Year’s Model, 1986’s King of America, and other early classics,

Mustafa has announced a 2025 tour in support of his debut album, Dunya. The musician will begin the tour in North America, in February, before heading to the United Kingdom and Europe for May concerts. He will close out the Lost in the Dunya Tour with stops in Ethiopia and Sudan. See Mustafa’s tour dates

Jack White is adding more stops to his recently announced No Name Tour. The new shows take place in France, the Netherlands, England, and Scotland in the winter. See all of White’s upcoming tour dates below. White spent the summer and autumn playing concerts in support of No Name, but he was announcing the shows

Shygirl has announced a new EP: Club Shy Room 2 is out February 14 via Because Music, and it will include the recent Saweetie collaboration “Immaculate.” The six-track release will also feature “F*Me,” a new song featuring French singer Yseult that’s co-produced by Mura Masa and Shygirl. Find the new track’s video below. This year,

“The pleading speaks for itself. This is a very serious matter that will be litigated in court,” Jane Doe’s attorney, Tony Buzbee, said in a statement to Pitchfork. Roc Nation, the management company founded by Jay-Z, posted a lengthy statement on X casting doubt on the claims and alleging that Buzbee sent his lawyer a