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The Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony took place today (July 26), and it featured a performance from Lady Gaga, who sang “Mon truc en plumes.” See photos of her performance on the Seine below, and find footage on YouTube and X. Later, Gojira became the first metal band to play an Olympic opening ceremony. They

Klein continues a string of low-key, boundary-pushing compositions with Marked, an eerie suite that glides between ambient drone, dinner-party jazz, doom metal, and broken hip-hop beats as if through a haunted house of the avant-garde. Its dissociative collage of searing noise and alienated vocal snippets feels at once like commentary and escapism, equally suited to

Veeze has announced a North American tour that he’s calling the Worst Tour Ever. Joining him on the road are Concrete Boys’ Karrahbooo, Florida rapper Wizz Havinn, and “Yea Yea” artist Star Bandz. See Veeze’s tour dates below. Veeze released his album Ganger last year, and he’s more recently dropped the single “Pop Yo Shit.”

The Mercury Prize has announced its 2024 nominees. The panel’s selections for the best British or Irish album of the year include Charli XCX, Beth Gibbons, Nia Archives, Berwyn, the Last Dinner Party, Barry Can’t Swim, Corinne Bailey Rae, and Ghetts, among others. Check out the full shortlist below. The winner will be announced in

Cher has revealed that the first part of her memoir will arrive on November 19. Cher: The Memoir, Part One will be released via Dey Street Books, and the publisher has revealed the cover, which features a vintage black-and-white photo of Cher with her signature black bangs and cat-eye makeup. Check it out below. Part

Seefeel are back after 13 years. A six-track mini-album, Everything Squared, is due August 30 via Warp. “Sky Hooks” leads the record; check that out below. The outfit’s core duo of Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock helmed the mini-album, enlisting Shigeru Ishihara to play bass on two tracks. Since their self-titled 2011 LP, the Warp

Snoop Dogg will be an Olympic torchbearer, carrying the flame for its final stretch before Friday’s opening ceremony. He will bear the Olympic torch through the northern Paris suburb Saint-Denis, the town’s mayor, Mathieu Hanotin, posted on X. Also bearing the torch that day are French actress Laetitia Casta, French rapper MC Solaar, and Ukrainian

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ latest Wild God track is here. “Long Dark Night” is inspired by the poem “Dark Night of the Soul” by the 16th-century Spanish poet St. John of the Cross—“one of the greatest and most powerful poems of conversion ever written,” Cave says in a press release. “Ultimately, though, it’s

Donald Glover has shared a video for “Lithonia,” the single that led the new Childish Gambino album, Bando Stone and the New World. The short opens with a dramatic full-band rendition of the track before taking an alarming turn. Jack Begert directed, with a cast including Suzanna Son, Alex Wolff, and Glover’s longtime collaborator Ludwig

Alanis Morissette headlined the third and final night of Pitchfork Music Festival 2024. During her set, she brought out some surprise guests to do her Jagged Little Pill hit “Ironic,” the pop trio Muna. Watch footage of the performance below. Muna had a set of their own earlier on Sunday at Pitchfork Music Festival. They

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: 07-23 South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground07-24 Northampton, MA – Iron Horse Music Hall07-25 Northampton, MA – Iron Horse Music Hall07-27 Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival09-04 Bowling Green, KY – Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center09-05 Bloomington, IN – The Bluebird09-06 Evanston, IL – Cahn Auditorium09-08 Madison, WI – The

I have been composing my whole life, although I didn’t know initially that was what I was doing. The inspiration for ‘A Ballet Through Mud’ comes from my earliest creative output as a teenager, but its themes are universal—love, exploration, and adventure. I hope people use it to score their own lives, to transform a

The Smashing Pumpkins are releasing a new album, Aghori Mhori Mei, on Friday, August 2. The follow-up to last year’s 33-song Atum spans just 10 tracks. See the tracklist and album cover below. Aghori Mhori Mei is the first Smashing Pumpkins album since the departure, in the autumn of 2023, of longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder.

Jónsi has announced a new album, First Light. The Sigur Rós singer and composer has shared a pair of songs, “Flicker” and “Cherry Blossom,” ahead of the record’s August 30 release. For the record, which he initially conceived as a video game score, Jónsi partnered with the music and wellness platform Myndstream, who will release

New Orleans rapper Rob49 and Cardi B have come together for the new song “On Dat Money.” The single is produced by LunchMoney Lewis and Schife, and George Buford, Frederick Buford, and DirectedByFrankie directed its accompany music video, which you can find below. In a press release, Rob49 said, “I’ve been grinding hard all summer,

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 Childish Gambino, Los Campesinos!, Lava La Rue, Denzel Curry, Total Blue, JT, Blk

Oso Oso, the emo and power pop band led by Jade Lilitri, have announced a new album; Life Till Bones comes out mere weeks from today on August 9 via the band’s own label, Yunahon Entertainment LLC. They’re sharing a new song called “That’s What Time Does” today, which is technically the second track from

The 2024 Emmy Awards will air Sunday, September 15, on ABC, and, today, the nominations have been announced. The awards honor the best TV series, actors, writers, and directors of the past year, as well as various technical achievements. Donald Glover earned two nods for his work on Mr. & Mrs. Smith: Outstanding Lead Actor

The Weeknd has announced a one-night only concert in São Paulo, Brazil. The event will debut an all-new live production, and will take place on Saturday, September 7, at Estádio MorumBIS—a 66,795-capacity soccer stadium in the Brazilian metropolis. Produced by Live Nation, the performance follows the Weeknd’s highly stylized After Hours Til Dawn Tour, which

Japandroids have announced a new album, and it will be the band’s last. Fate & Alcohol, the follow-up to 2017’s Near to the Wild Heart of Life, is out October 18 via Anti-. Leading the LP is the new song “Chicago.” Find it below. Guitarist and vocalist Brian King and drummer and vocalist David Prowse

Caroline Shaw composed the original score for Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon’s forthcoming documentary Leonardo da Vinci. On October 25, she’ll release the music on a new album for Nonesuch. Below, check out the new song “Intentions of the Mind.” Shaw recorded her Leonardo da Vinci score with bassist John Patitucci and the

Missy Elliott is now a star amongst the literal stars, or at least her music is. NASA beamed the rapper’s 1997 debut solo single “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” to Venus using their Deep Space Network last Friday, July 12. The agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California sent the transmission 158 million miles from Earth

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville, who was overseeing the racketeering and gang conspiracy trial against Young Thug and five associates in Atlanta, Georgia, has been recused from the case, reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Lawyers for defendants Young Thug and Deamonte Kendrick filed motions claiming that Glanville held a secret meeting with prosecutors and

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 albums from Johnny Blue Skies, Clairo, Cassandra Jenkins, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Remi Wolf, Brijean, Tink,

Jessica Pratt made her late-night television debut on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The Los Angeles–based singer and songwriter played “Life Is,” the first single from her recent album Here in the Pitch. Watch Pratt and her band perform on the Colbert stage below. Pratt is currently on tour behind Here in the Pitch,

LL Cool J has announced his first new studio album since 2013’s Authentic. The new album, The FORCE (“Frequencies of Real Creative Energy”), is out September 6 via Def Jam Recordings and Virgin Music Group. Guests on the album include Rick Ross and Fat Joe (on recent single “Saturday Night Special”), as well as Eminem,

Tame Impala are back… with a line of A.P.C. clothing. Kevin Parker has brought a capsule of “psychedelic minimalism” to the Parisian fashion brand, whose founder, Jean Touitou, has been a fan since a tip-off from his daughter. “It struck me as a synthesis of everything I’ve liked since the 1960s, from Soft Machine to