The London and Paris editions of Pitchfork Music Festival have announced their return. The 2026 events will take place in venues across the two cities from November 2 to 8. Pitchfork Paris has also unveiled its first wave of artists, including headline shows on the Monday to Wednesday dates from Iceage, Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis
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Two days ago, Boards of Canada released Inferno, their long-awaited LP and first album in 13 years. While most everybody had to wait until Friday to listen, horror movie fans got to hear one of its unreleased songs a little early: “The World Becomes Flesh” plays in Backrooms, the new A24 film directed by Kane
There’s something refreshing about a country song that doesn’t try to overpower you in the first thirty seconds. No forced party anthem energy. No checklist of trucks, whiskey, and small-town clichés. “Summer Before The Fall” by Bee Smith and Chris Chitsey wins you over the old-fashioned way: through believable emotion, strong writing, and two singers
It’s hard to overstate the contributions DMX, who died in 2021 at 50, made to New York hip-hop history during his lifetime. This week, the city recognized that impact by naming the corner of School Street and Brooke Street in Yonkers, where the MC was born and raised, “Earl DMX Simmons Way.” Per the Yonkers
Big Thief have debuted a trio of new songs, “Carry,” “Forgive the Dream,” and “Space and Time.” They introduced the tracks to the world in an appropriately dreamy fashion: during an acoustic performance on Belgium’s Radio 1, recorded in a sun-drenched field between the Irish cities of Dublin and Limerick. Watch the set below. During
Joanna Newsom’s hometown of Nevada City has declared May 27 “Joanna Newsom Day.” On Wednesday, a City Council meeting was held at Nevada City’s City Hall where mayor Adam Kline, a longtime friend and early supporter of Newsom (who also plays in the band Golden Shoulders), made the announcement. He presented her with the honor,
DJ Screw’s catalog is finally making it to streaming platforms this month. Starting today with the digital release of the 56-minute DJ Screw Originals (Volume 1), the DJ Screw Estate will roll out the Houston legend’s classic mixtapes weekly through the end of June. Listen to DJ Screw Originals (Volume 1) below. Up until now,
I must have fallen asleep in 2026 and woken up in 2010; She & Him are performing on Kimmel and Gold Panda just announced a new album. Derwin Dicker has kept plenty busy since then, but the point stands. He’ll share Ton Up, described in an Instagram post as “eight rough-hewn dance tracks and two
Syd’s third album is on the way. Beard arrives on July 17 via Warner imprint Free Lunch Records, and features Raphael Saadiq, Big Sean, Rodney Jerkins, James Fauntleroy, Van Hunt, and Jordan Ward. The Internet co-founder also tapped Florida duo Blu June for a lead single, “Callin.” Check that out below. Beard marks Syd’s first
London’s Ezra Collective are releasing a new album, Here Because Of Hope. Arriving via Partisan, the record is out September 18. The jazz quintet has also shared a preview of the album, “Only Love,” featuring British-Gambian rapper Pa Salieu. Watch the lively music video below. Here Because Of Hope is Ezra Collective’s first album since
Gilla Band are back their first music in three years and an expansive list of tour dates through 2027. Check out the new single “Giraffe” —which arrives alongside an inventive animated music video from Cuan Roche and Chanthila Phaophanit—as well as the full list of stops below. In a statement about the making of “Giraffe,”
The Cramps formally ended in 2009 following the sudden death of their co-founder Lux Interior. Ever since, there’s been no new music, reissues, or archival releases from the band, not even after Jenna Ortega’s viral dance to “Goo Goo Muck” in Wednesday caused a surge of interest. That changes today with Gravest Gravy, a lost
“Finally Feel Big” marks a vulnerable new chapter for emerging indie pop artist Liana Valle, who is turning deeply personal experiences into music that resonates far beyond the surface. With emotionally raw storytelling and introspective lyricism, Valle’s latest release captures the quiet but powerful journey of reclaiming self worth after heartbreak, criticism, and emotional exhaustion.
A month after returning with a Yōsui Inoue cover and news of a new label deal, Cornelius has announced his Eat Your Own Ears debut, Refractions. The Japanese composer and songwriter recruited guests including his Bad Advice/Mind Train collaborator Arto Lindsay, former Yura Yura Teikoku guitarist Shintaro Sakamoto, Bid from the British punk band the
Melbourne garage rockers Eddy Current Suppression Ring have returned with a new album. The self-released In Light of Recent Events, their follow-up to 2019’s All in Good Time, is out now. Give it a spin below. Although it’s been seven years since their last proper LP, Eddy Current Suppression Ring have shown signs of life
Jazz luminary and saxophonist Sonny Rollins has died, according to a public statement by his publicist, Terri Hinte. In the recent past, the icon had been struggling with respiratory health issues, which had kept him from public performance since 2012. He died at home in Woodstock, New York. He was 95. Born and raised in the Harlem neighborhood
For Veeze fans patiently waiting on the follow-up to 2023’s acclaimed Ganger, you can now bide your time with the Detroit rapper’s surprise new mixtape Y’all Won, along with a video for the single “Wrong Place, Wrong Time,” featuring cameos from Playboi Carti and Lil Baby. Check it all out below. In the years since
Rob Base, one-half of the seminal Harlem duo Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, died on Friday (May 22) after a “private battle with cancer.” He was 59. “Rob’s music, energy, and legacy helped shape a generation and brought joy to millions around the world,” a statement on his Instagram page read. “Beyond the stage,
Earlier this month, Drake turned a long-teased album drop into a three album bonanza, releasing the new LPs Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour at once on May 15. Now, Billboard reports that he has become the first artist to hold the No. 1, 2, and 3 spots on its Billboard 200 chart in the
Philipp Jung, the German DJ and producer behind the electronic duo M.A.N.D.Y. and the influential Get Physical label, has died. The British DJ Damian Lazarus, a onetime Get Physical signee, shared the news on May 20, giving Jung’s age as 55. Jung’s personal Facebook page and his labels’ Instagrams have since posted their own tributes.
From kissa bars to city pop, Western fascination with Japanese musical tradition is a well-worn trope at this point. But Portland ambient duo Visible Cloaks have set themselves apart from the trend-chasing masses through their genuinely meaningful contributions to Japanese genre kankyō ongaku, or “environmental music.” Last year, Spencer Doran, who makes up the group
DJ Koze’s first song of the year is here. His latest conjury of club mesmerism, the seven-minute “Spiralen,” is the front half of a AA-side single coming on June 12, via his Pampa label. That’ll be backed by another long song, promisingly titled “Wo’s Patric?!?” Find the “Spiralen” video below and the single art beneath
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is readying a new album. The composer and synthesist will release Ruin: It’s Not Just Music on October 2 through Someone Special, a label she co-founded this year with James Daniel. Below, listen to a title track of sorts, “Ruin,” via a video starring a pole-dancing Pedro Esteveaqui. In a press release,
Less than a month after dropping his first solo single ever, Mike D is already back with another new song. The Beastie Boy recorded “What We Got” during the same sessions as “Switch Up,” and was joined in the studio by producer Carter Lang as well as his sons, Davis and Skyler Diamond. Listen below.
It’s only been three years since Feeble Little Horse last released an album—2023’s excellent, blown-out Girl With Fish—but between the canceled tour, a standalone single, and sporadic activity online since then, it feels like the wait has been far longer. Alas, that ends very soon; Feeble Little Horse have announced their new album, Bitknot, is
Where else but Portland? Last night (May 20), Kevin Morby played the Oregon capitol’s Revolution Hall, where he was joined onstage by a certified local hero: Portlandia star and Sleater-Kinney founder Carrie Brownstein. Together, they performed the band’s 2005 classic “Modern Girl,” a track so essential within Sleater-Kinney’s enduring catalog Brownstein named her 2015 memoir
Loukeman is celebrating the recent end of his SD album trilogy with a tour spanning both sides of the Atlantic. Although the trek launches in the United Kingdom in June, the majority takes place this fall. The producer, real name Luke Fenton, will travel to Chicago, Brooklyn, Paris, and Berlin in his travels during sweater
There is something deceptively glamorous about the life of a cabaret singer. The lights are low, the gowns shimmer, the applause rises like champagne bubbles, and for a fleeting moment the audience sees only elegance. What they rarely see is the war behind the curtain. For performers like Quinn Lemley, survival in entertainment is not simply
A posthumous album by the late cult folk singer and visual artist Ed Askew is being released on Drag City. Out July 31, The Final Painting features contributions from, among others, Bill Callahan and William Tyler; Sharon Van Etten sings backing vocals on the single “Gray Air-o-Plane.” Below, watch a video that sets the song
The first teaser trailer for Live Nation’s Rolling Loud movie is here. If this is the first you’re hearing of a Rolling Loud movie, Owen Wilson stars in it as a “by-the-book dad trying way too hard to be a cool dad” (this is a direct quote from the promotional copy) who soon loses his
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