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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 Bossman Dlow; Amen Dunes; Roc Marciano & Alchemist; Saint Etienne; Daniel Blumberg; YhapoJJ:

Röyksopp have shared a new album, Nebulous Nights – An Ambient Excursion Into Profound Mysteries—an ambient reinterpretation of their Profound Mysteries project. Röyksopp recorded Nebulous Nights live, weaving in auditory call-backs to their catalog. Listen to the record below. The Norwegian electronic music duo said in a press release, “Outside the pure listening pleasure, Nebulous

Pink Siifu has announced a new album: Black’!Antique will arrive January 27 via Dynamite Hill. Today, Siifu has shared a new single from the project, “WhoUWithHo+.” The track features Dallas-born producer and artist Kal Banx. Check it out below. Black’!Antique follows Siifu’s 2021 solo LP Gumbo’!, as well as a pair of collaborative albums from

The team behind Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right is opening a new music space within New York’s historic Pyramid Club. Night Club 101 will officially open in the East Village early next year, with a preview club night in partnership with Pitchfork on Thursday, December 19. The event is presented by AdHoc, and will feature

Midas Man, the long-in-the-works biopic of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, will be available to watch in North America from Wednesday, January 22, 2025, via Olyn. Starring Jacob Fortune-Lloyd in the lead role, the film charts Epstein’s life as a gay, Jewish maverick who was instrumental in the Beatles’ rise before his death, of an accidental

Sacred Bones Records has announced a new collection of music by the late cult artist Q Lazzarus. Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From the Motion Picture) is a 21-song compilation featuring a trove of unreleased tracks, all recorded between 1985 and 1995. The songs were retrieved from Q Lazzarus’ archive of

Magdalena Bay are extending their Imaginal Mystery Tour into 2025. Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin will perform in Australia in March before returning to North America for concerts in April and May. Supporting the experimental pop duo at most of the spring shows is Sam Austins. See Magdalena Bay’s tour dates below. Magdalena Bay announced

Victoria Monét has released a Christmas album featuring transformed instrumentals from her 2023 record, Jaguar II. On A Jaguar II Christmas: The Orchestral Arrangements, Monét, composer Maurice “Pirahnahead” Herd, and a live orchestra rework songs like “Cadillac (A Pimp’s Anthem)” into “Cadillac Christmas,” and “Stop (Askin’ Me 4Shyt)” into “Stop (Askin’ Me 4Gifts).” Listen to

Elvis Costello has announced 2025 tour dates where he’ll play music from the early years of his career. On the June and July stops of the Radio Soul! Tour, Costello and the Imposters will play songs taken from 1977’s My Aim Is True, 1978’s This Year’s Model, 1986’s King of America, and other early classics,

Mustafa has announced a 2025 tour in support of his debut album, Dunya. The musician will begin the tour in North America, in February, before heading to the United Kingdom and Europe for May concerts. He will close out the Lost in the Dunya Tour with stops in Ethiopia and Sudan. See Mustafa’s tour dates

Jack White is adding more stops to his recently announced No Name Tour. The new shows take place in France, the Netherlands, England, and Scotland in the winter. See all of White’s upcoming tour dates below. White spent the summer and autumn playing concerts in support of No Name, but he was announcing the shows

Shygirl has announced a new EP: Club Shy Room 2 is out February 14 via Because Music, and it will include the recent Saweetie collaboration “Immaculate.” The six-track release will also feature “F*Me,” a new song featuring French singer Yseult that’s co-produced by Mura Masa and Shygirl. Find the new track’s video below. This year,

“The pleading speaks for itself. This is a very serious matter that will be litigated in court,” Jane Doe’s attorney, Tony Buzbee, said in a statement to Pitchfork. Roc Nation, the management company founded by Jay-Z, posted a lengthy statement on X casting doubt on the claims and alleging that Buzbee sent his lawyer a

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 Nettspend, Smino, Lauren Mayberry, Shabaka, Lucy (Cooper B. Handy), Advance Base, Kassie Krut,

Lizzo has scored a significant legal victory in the workplace harassment lawsuit that was filed last year by her former tour employee Asha Daniels. A California federal judge ruled that Daniels does not have the standing to sue Lizzo as an individual because she named the musician’s production company, Big Grrrl Big Touring Inc., and

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scored director Luca Guadagnino’s new A24 movie, Queer. The Nine Inch Nails musicians have now released their official soundtrack album via Milan Records. Listen to Queer (Original Score) below. Reznor and Ross’ new album opens with “Vaster Than Empires,” an original song featuring vocals from the legendary Brazilian artist Caetano

Thursday are closing out 2024 with another new song. Following the April comeback track “Application for Release From the Dream,” they’ve now released “White Bikes,” along with a black-and-white video created by Duran Levinson and Nick Scholey. Watch the video for the new song below. Thursday recorded “White Bikes” in June at Hansa Tonstudio, the

On Christmas Day, the much-hyped, Dylan-approved Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is coming to cinemas. In the starring role, Timothée Chalamet himself sings a number of Dylan classics, and his renditions will be collected on A Complete Unknown (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), also out December 25. Listen to two tracks, “Girl From the North

Pearl Jam will continue to tour their new album, Dark Matter, into 2025. The ‘90s Grunge stalwarts will hit the road again in April for a run of U.S. dates, which will kick off in Hollywood, Florida, on April 24th and wrap up May 18th in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Scroll down to see the full list

Sky Ferreira is back with her first new music since 2022. The new song, “Leash,” was written specifically for the upcoming A24 movie Babygirl, starring Nicole Kidman. Co-written by Ferreira and Jorge Elbrecht, “Leash” features lyrics about working through shame, feeling trapped, and fighting for yourself to persevere. Listen to “Leash (Babygirl Original Soundtrack)” below.

Bob Dylan has been an active X user lately, and he’s shared a new message about the soon-to-be-released new movie about him, A Complete Unknown. “There’s a movie about me opening soon called A Complete Unknown (what a title!),” the 83-year-old singer-songwriter began his post. “Timothee Chalamet is starring in the lead role. Timmy’s a

Valee and Surf Gang have announced Grey Sky London, a new collaborative new project that comes out on December 13. The first taste of the project is “Why Not,” produced by Evilgiane and NikeTech. Listen to the new song below. Surf Gang have released a handful of collaborative projects in 2024, including Jack & the

Clairo has released the music video for her Charm single “Sexy to Someone.” In the visual, the singer-songwriter builds a fire in the woods and pals around with a Yeti, the costume apparently provided by Charm producer Leon Michels. Watch it below. Charm came out in July. The following month, Clairo shared her first music

The YSL trial is over. Two months after Young Thug walked free from jail, the longest trial in Georgia history concluded on Tuesday (December 3) with the acquittal of the final defendants, Deamonte “Yak Gotti” Kendrick and Shannon Stillwell, on the murder, racketeering, and gang charges against them, The New York Times reports. Stillwell, who

Bob Bryar, the longtime My Chemical Romance drummer who played on The Black Parade and Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, has died, the band confirmed on Instagram. “It is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to Bob Bryar, our former bandmate and an important part of the history of

Later this month, Pitchfork Presents will host two events in New York to ring in the end of an eventful 2024. First up is Pitchfork Year in Music, a mixtape of conversations, interviews, games, and the sounds of the year. Presented by Thought Enthusiast, hosted by Deputy Director Jeremy D. Larson, and moderated by Head

Robert Smith has released a new remix of the Cure’s “A Fragile Thing.” Take a listen to “A Fragile Thing (RS24 Remix)” below. The Cure released “A Fragile Thing” in October as the second preview of the comeback album Songs of a Lost World. The first single, “Alone,” landed in September, and the band’s complete

Drake is going on tour in Australia and New Zealand. The Anita Max Win Tour kicks off on February 9, in Melbourne, Australia, at Rod Laver Arena. See all of Drake’s tour dates below. On February 9, in New Orleans, Drake’s rival Kendrick Lamar will play the Super Bowl LIX halftime show. Due to time

Will Cullen Hart, a founding member of the Athens, Georgia, indie-rock collective Elephant 6, died on Friday, November 29, of a heart attack, according to a statement on the Elephant 6 website. One of the musician’s Elephant 6 co-founders, Robert Schneider, shared that Hart died “suddenly, peacefully, and in a very happy mood around the

J. Cole will mark the 10th anniversary of his album 2014 Forest Hills Drive with a concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The show takes place on Monday, December 16. Pre-sale tickets go on sale online beginning on Monday, December 2, at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, and the general on-sale period begins on