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Little Dragon have announced 2020 tour dates. The first show takes place next March in Stockholm, Sweden. The band will then play European shows for the rest of the month, followed by North American concerts in April and May. Check out Little Dragon’s tour poster below. Get tickets here. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from

UK post-punk band Wire have announced a new album, Mind Hive. Out January 24, 2020, via pinkflag, it’s the follow-up to 2017’s Silver/Lead. Below, check out “Cactused,” and scroll down for the Mind Hive tracklist and cover art, as well as the band’s 2020 tour dates. [embedded content] Mind Hive: 01 Be Like Them02 Cactused03

Juice WRLD has been sued by the pop punk band Yellowcard, The Blast and Billboard report. The band, which broke up in 2017, claims that his “Lucid Dreams” copied melodic elements of their song “Holly Wood Died” without permission. Yellowcard’s members are seeking $15 million, royalties, and co-ownership of the song. In addition to Juice

Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders held a campaign rally in Queens, New York this past Saturday, October 19. During the event, he played Sheer Mag’s “Expect the Bayonet,” journalist Liz Pelly reports and Sanders’ communications director confirmed to Pitchfork. When reached by Pitchfork, representatives for Sheer Mag shared the following statement from

Kanye West has a new release date for Jesus Is King. This time, he’s tweeted that it’s out on October 25. He tweeted the news with the below image of the album on vinyl. It’s due the same day that an accompanying documentary film is coming to IMAX theaters. Jesus Is King was originally announced

The Philadelphia post-hardcore band mewithoutYou will apparently call it quits in the coming months. “We have decided on next year as our last as an active band,” they wrote in a statement on social media. “We nevertheless have many plans in the interim, the details of which are forthcoming.” Next year will mark 20 years

Last night, Maggie Rogers performed at Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater in Austin, Texas. The concert was one of Rogers’ final stops on her Heard It in a Past Life tour. Earlier today (October 20), Rogers took to Twitter to respond to an unfortunate occurrence of verbal harassment that took place at

Frank Ocean’s Beats 1 radio program “blonded RADIO” is back with a new episode. It’s live streaming now; check it out here. Vegyn and Roof Access have returned to host the episode alongside Ocean himself. It marks the first new installment of the show since the 2018 Christmas episode aired last December. The show kicked

Frank Ocean returned to Beats 1 today for another episode of “blonded RADIO.” Near the end of the broadcast, he released a new song called “DHL.” It’s available on iTunes—find it here or check it out below. [embedded content] The new song follows the tease of other new songs called “Cayendo” and “Dear April” from

Bon Iver sat down with CBS This Morning’s Anthony Mason to discuss the band’s rise and the recording of i,i. Justin Vernon, Jenn Wasner, Sean Carey, and the other members of the group also talked about whether listeners have generally learned how to pronounce “Bon Iver” (Vernon says, “No. It’s okay though… Some people call

Respect, the forthcoming biopic based on the life of Aretha Franklin, has announced a new slate of cast members. Joining previously announced star Jennifer Hudson (who was selected by the Queen of Soul to portray her before her death) are Forest Whitaker (as Franklin’s father, the Reverend C.L. Franklin), Marlon Wayans, Mary J. Blige, Marc

Frank Ocean has penned a lengthy note on Tumblr addressing criticism of his queer club night PrEP+, which launched last night New York City. According to a press release, PrEP+ paid “homage to what could have been of the 1980s’ NYC club scene if the drug… had been invented in that era.” In the note,

This year, Insecure creator and star Issa Rae co-founded a new music label called Raedio. Rae and her label have now partnered with Atlantic Records, as Variety notes. To mark the partnership, Raedio has shared “Kinda Love,” a new single from Boston-born and Los Angeles-based Haitian-American singer TeaMarrr. It comes with a music video featuring

The Flaming Lips have announced their first-ever official live album. The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra captures a 2016 live performance of the band’s landmark 1999 LP. The concert was recorded with a 68-piece orchestra and 57-person choir conducted by Andre De Ridder. The album arrives November 29

Yesterday, Amazon Web Services announced Intersect Music Festival, which takes place in Las Vegas from December 6-7. The lineup includes Foo Fighters, Beck, Kacey Musgraves, Anderson .Paak, and many more. The Black Madonna is also featured on the lineup, and today, she’s expressed outrage over Amazon’s involvement in the event. She wrote that Amazon was

Improbably recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, Music City U.S.A. for the county genere, AV Super Sunshine’s “Candyland” isn’t a hayseed farmer’s lament or paint by number love song ready for sale at your nearest Wal-Mart. The new single from the pride of Wisconsin’s rambunctious imagination is an energetic and inspired take on kicking medication he once

For the past month, Kanye West has been holding one-off screenings for his forthcoming IMAX film Jesus Is King. Now, he’s released a brief trailer for the film, which will see a limited theatrical release at select IMAX theaters around the United States on October 25. The trailer is soundtracked by a gospel rendition of

Beck has released “Hyperlife” and “Uneventful Days,” two new songs from his forthcoming LP Hyperspace. The album is due out November 22 via Capitol. Listen to both songs below. Earlier this year, Beck promised the new album with the release of a Pharrell-assisted new single called “Saw Lightning.” Find physical editions of Hyperspace at Rough

Arca has announced that her music will soundtrack the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. A composition she wrote using the Bronze AI engine will play for two years once the museum reopens on October 21 after four months of renovations. The Bronze format allows artists to make what is described

In a new interview with British GQ, Elton John shared some choice words about this year’s remake of The Lion King, which starred Beyoncé, Donald Glover, and more. “The new version of The Lion King was a huge disappointment to me, because I believe they messed the music up,” he said. After providing songs for

In one of the most high profile performances in its history, NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series welcomed Taylor Swift to the NPR offices for its latest instalment. Before heading out on a 2020 world tour, she sat behind the desk to perform, mostly acoustic, songs from her new album Lover. Of the album, she says

Earlier this year, Mute Records announced that they had partnered with Throbbing Gristle to bring the band’s discography to streaming services for the first time. The label also revealed that they planned to make “long out of print and important pieces of work” from the band publicly available, both physically and digitally, for the first

Producer Justin Raisen has accused Lizzo of plagiarism, as The Guardian notes. On Instagram, Raisen claimed that he, Lizzo, songwriter Jesse Saint John, and producer/songwriter Yves Rothman wrote the line, “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100 percent that bitch,” for a demo called “Healthy.” The same lyric is featured on Lizzo’s

The influential slowcore band Duster have announced their first new album in 19 years. The self-titled LP spans 12 tracks and arrives December 13 via Muddguts. Check out the cover art, which features a painting by Salvatore Olentino, below. Earlier this year, Duster shared the new song “Interstellar Tunnel” (which will not appear on the

Katy Perry, Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, Capitol Records, and others are appealing a recent ruling that Perry’s “Dark Horse” plagiarizes a Christian rap single from 2009, Variety reports and Pitchfork can confirm. In the appeal over the lawsuit focusing on rapper Flame’s 2009 single “Joyful Noise,” Perry and the rest asked the court to overturn

In a new interview with GQ’s Will Welch, Pharrell has denounced “Blurred Lines,” the 2013 Robin Thicke song that he co-wrote and featured on. “I didn’t get it at first,” he said. “Because there were older white women who, when that song came on, they would behave in some of the most surprising ways ever.