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Foxing: 09-17 Nashville, TN – The Mil at Cannery Hall09-18 Louisville, KY – Zanzabar09-20 Detroit, MI – El Club09-21 Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop09-22 Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall09-24 Milwaukee, WI – Vivarium09-25 Saint Paul, MN – Amsterdam Bar and Hall09-26 Omaha, NE – Slowdown09-28 Denver, CO – Marquis09-30 Salt Lake City, UT

Hotline TNT have announced an autumn tour of the United States and released a new remix EP to coincide with the news. Dubbed Somersault, it features remixes of a handful of Cartwheel songs by DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Poisonfrog, Downstairs J, and Car Culture. It’s out now

StubHub is accused of duping customers over ticket prices in a new lawsuit filed by the Washington, D.C., attorney general. The lawsuit, filed in Superior Court of the District of Columbia, alleges that the secondary ticket platform conceals true costs using “drip pricing”: a series of unnecessary steps in the checkout process, where fees accumulate

Jeff Tweedy has announced a U.S. tour, taking in a number of cities where the Wilco frontman rarely performs. Bookended by three-night residencies in Woodstock, New York, and Menlo Park, California, the run is preceded by a pair of separate appearances in Illinois, one in-conversation at the Evanston Folk Festival and the other a solo

Porridge Radio: 10-31 Tourcoing, France – Le Grand Mix11-01 Vendôme, France – Les Rockomotives11-02 Lorient, France – Les Indisciplinées11-07 Dublin, Ireland – Whelan’s11-18 Nottingham, England – Rescue Rooms11-19 Bristol, England – Marble Factory11-20 Leeds, England – Irish Centre11-22 Glasgow, Scotland – Òran Mór11-23 Newcastle upon Tyne, England – Newcastle University Students’ Union11-25 Manchester, England –

The late Steve Albini is getting a street named in his honor in Chicago, Illinois, his longtime home. Thanks to an ordinance passed by Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, the 2600-2700 block of West Belmont Avenue in Avondale, between North Rockwell Avenue and North California Avenue, will officially be declared “Steve Albini Way.” This stretch is where

The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our

Martin Phillipps, the singer-guitarist and founder of the New Zealand jangle-pop band the Chills, has died. The band’s official social media accounts shared the news today, stating, “It is with broken hearts the family and friend of Martin Phillipps wish to advise Martin has died unexpectedly. The family ask for privacy at this time.” Phillipps

Navy Blue is back next week with a new album. After making his Def Jam Recordings debut last year with Ways of Knowing, the rapper will share Memoirs in Armour, on August 2, via his own Freedom Sounds. The first taste of the album is “Low Threshold,” which comes with a music video directed by

Pharrell Williams was a surprise addition to the Olympic torch-bearing relay in Paris today (July 26), joining Snoop Dogg and others as the flame traveled from Marseille to the French capital. Celebrities including Salma Hayek, MC Solaar, singer Patrick Bruel, and drag queen Minima Geste were among the earlier torch-carriers, with Williams concluding the ritual

Toumani Diabaté, Malian master of the traditional, 21-stringed West African instrument the kora, has died, The New York Times reports. Diabaté’s manager Saul Presa confirmed the news to The Times, stating that the musician died on Friday, July 19, in a hospital in Bamako, Mali, due to kidney failure. Toumani Diabaté was 58 years old.

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