Music

Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks’ first collaborative album, 1995’s Orange Crate Art, is being reissued on 2xCD and 2xLP, marking the first time it’s ever been pressed to vinyl. It’s out June 19 via Omniverse Recordings. It’ll feature previously unreleased session outtakes and instrumentals, including Wilson and Parks’ cover of “What a Wonderful World,”
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Thom Yorke was the musical guest on tonight’s remote broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In addition to sitting down for a somewhat rare late night TV performance, he also debuted a new song called “Plasticine Figures.” According to Fallon, it was an unfinished song that Yorke decided to finish for tonight’s performance.
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Nilüfer Yanya will perform the next session in Pitchfork’s new stay-at-home concert series. The performance will broadcast live on Instagram this Wednesday, April 29, at 4 p.m. Eastern. You can tune in at Pitchfork’s Instagram. Pitchfork’s concert sessions take place on our Instagram every Wednesday and Friday, and viewers will be able to donate to the
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Facebook has announced sweeping changes to its Facebook Live platform, including plans to let artists charge for entry to concert livestreams. Other changes include the return of Live With, which allows co-hosts to join a stream, and the integration of livestreams into online-only event pages. The company has not detailed the Facebook Live payment system
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Hamilton Bohannon has died. The percussionist, bandleader, and music producer who started his music career as the drummer for a young Stevie Wonder in the mid-1960s passed away on Friday, April 24, as the Newnan Times-Herald reports. He was 78 years old. Bohannon grew up in Newnan, Georgia, a city 40 miles southwest of Atlanta.
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This week’s Saturday Night Live featured a sketch called “Big Papi Cooking Show,” wherein Kenan Thompson offers a cooking tutorial (sort of) as former Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz. During the sketch, Thompson introduced “Big Bunny,” which of course was Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny tries to sell viewers “big ass pots” and sweatpants. “Are
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Live Nation has announced a new “Ticket Relief Plan” to issue refunds to customers who hold tickets to shows that have been postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, as The New York Times reports. The concert conglomerate, which also owns Ticketmaster, previously indicated that fans who held tickets to rescheduled concerts would be given
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Chvrches were the musical guests on last night’s remote edition of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. They played their Love Is Dead track “Forever” in separate white studios. Watch their colorful performance below. Chvrches’ most recent single “Death Stranding” arrived last year. The song was written specifically for Playstation 4’s video game of the
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Lil Uzi Vert has shared a new song. It’s called “Sasuke.” Uzi teased the single in a tweet earlier today (April 24). Give “Sasuke” a listen below. Last month, Uzi dropped two new albums, his long-awaited LP Eternal Atake, followed by LUV vs. The World 2, an addendum to the former that features Future, Young
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Rosalía, like most of us, is finding new ways to stay entertained at home. So, on her Instagram Stories yesterday (April 23), she sang a bunch of her favorite songs, as Billboard notes. Among the tracks Rosalía covered were Frank Ocean’s “Dear April,” Billie Eilish’s “when the party’s over,” Beyoncé’s “Halo,” Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina,” Dua
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Over 20 artists are coming together this Thursday (April 23) to cover Foo Fighters’ “Times Like These.” Among the participating musicians are Dua Lipa, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Ellie Goulding, AJ Tracey, Biffy Clyro, Sigrid, Sean Paul, Sam Fender, and Royal Blood, according to the BBC and The Guardian. The artists recorded their “Times Like
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Derek Jones, the guitarist of the Las Vegas post-hardcore band Falling in Reverse, has died. His bandmate Ronnie Radke revealed the news. He was 35. The cause of death is currently unknown. Pitchfork has reached out to Falling in Reverse’s representatives. Jones was one of the original members of the band and, with Radke, was
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