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In 2022, DaBaby was charged with felony battery and accused of sucker-punching a Los Angeles County rental property owner during an unauthorized music video shoot. The rapper has now agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor simple battery, TMZ reports and Pitchfork can confirm. As a result of the plea deal, DaBaby has also been sentenced

Eminem has released his new album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce). Having previewed his first album since 2020 with “Houdini” and “Tobey,” the Detroit rapper has delivered a concept album about his career milestones and controversies. Listen below. The concept record, Eminem said, concerns the last bow of his alter ego, Slim

Rod Argent—the primary songwriter, keyboardist, and founder of the wildly influential 1960s rock group the Zombies—will immediately retire from touring following a stroke. Argent and the Zombies’ team at the Rocks Management announced the news today, writing, in a statement, that Argent’s stroke occurred not long after he returned home to London from a tour

Kelly Lee Owens is back with a new album. Out October 18, Dreamstate is the Welsh producer-songwriter’s debut for DH2, a Dirty Hit imprint for electronic music, helmed by the 1975’s George Daniel. Daniel himself is among the credited producer-writers, alongside Bicep and Tom Rowlands from the Chemical Brothers. “Love You Got” leads the LP;

Chicago indie-rock and folk musician Tasha has announced a new album. Her third LP is titled All This and So Much More and arrives September 20 via Bayonet. Today, she’s sharing the lead single “The Beginning,” which comes with a music video directed by none other than Tomberlin. In the clip, Tasha goes for a

Tim Heidecker has announced a new album that he recorded with his Very Good Band. The full-length, Slipping Away, arrives October 18 via Bloodshot. Leading the new album is “Well’s Running Dry,” which comes with a video featuring footage of Heidecker and his bandmates making the song. Watch it below. Slipping Away follows Heidecker’s 2022

Moses Sumney has announced a new EP. His first new record in three years is titled Sophcore and arrives August 2 via his label Tuntum. The indie rock singer-songwriter has also shared the new song “Gold Coast,” which you can listen to below. Sophcore is fifth EP of Sumney’s career, following 2018’s Black in Deep

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have announced a new album. Landing August 9, Flight B741 is the 26th studio LP from the prolific Australian rock band. The six-piece is releasing the record on its new (P)Doom Records. Today, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have shared lead single “Le Risque,” which features the vocal

Prince’s former business advisors L. Londell McMillan and Charles Spicer Jr. have won a key ruling in their ongoing estate lawsuit against several of the late artist’s heirs, reports Billboard. McMillan and Spicer are currently managers of Prince Legacy LLC, the estate management holding company they co-created with several of Prince’s legal heirs, but several

Jessie Ware and the xx’s Romy have shared a new song together. “Lift You Up,” produced by Stuart Price, is the first collaboration between the British artists. The two also premiered the track onstage at Glastonbury. Check out the new song, plus footage of the Glastonbury performance, below. Romy previously worked with Ware on the

Sault, the elusive UK collective, have released a new surprise album. Titled Acts of Faith, their 11th LP is out now via Forever Living Originals and is available to download for free as a .wav file through a WeTransfer link that the group shared online. It’s one 32-minute track that’s produced by Inflo. This past

The Go! Team are ringing in the 20th anniversary of Thunder, Lightning, Strike, their eclectic debut album, with a reissue and a fall tour. The new edition of the LP, out September 13 via Memphis Industries, comes with a bonus disc of band member Ian Parton’s original CD-R versions of the songs in all their

Eminem has announced the release date for his first new album since 2020’s Music to Be Murdered By and its companion, Music to Be Murdered By – Side B (Deluxe Edition). The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) is out Friday, July 12. Below, find a trailer for the album. Eminem recently returned with

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sued again, this time for alleged sex trafficking, sexual assault, and other allegations, TMZ and the Los Angeles Times report. Adria English, a former adult-film star, says Diddy hired her to work as a “go-go dancer” at a party in 2004, before rehiring her for parties where she alleges her

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has failed in his bid to become a member of the United Kingdom’s parliament. Rowntree stood for the centrist Labour Party in the Mid Sussex district, a long-standing stronghold for the embattled Conservative Party. The seat went to the Liberal Democrats, another centrist party, unseating the Tories for the first time

Angel Marcloid’s latest as Fire-Toolz—one of her many aliases—collects 14 antsy compositions recorded over the past four years, during which time she sallied deeper into deathcore and death metal, she said in press materials. Infernal vocals crawl across her wondrously maximalist soundscapes, wraithlike interlopers in a euphoric swirl of jazz fusion, Midwest emo, and digital

Kendrick Lamar is celebrating Independence Day with the music video for his chart-topping Drake diss song, “Not Like Us.” Watch the video, directed by Lamar and his pgLang co-founder, Dave Free, below. The triumphal “Not Like Us” visual opens with Lamar rapping a bit of a new track that includes the line “Keep a horn

Kesha has shared the studio version of “Joyride,” her first single of 2024 and first to be released on her own label, Kesha Records. Below, check out a lyric video for the song, which she debuted live in June at Brooklyn’s Planet Pride. Kesha co-wrote the track with Zhone and Madison Love. Kesha has touted

After weeks of teasers and speculation, Quavo and Lana Del Rey have finally released their new song “Tough.” It comes with a music video, directed by the musicians and Wyatt Spain Winfrey, in which Quavo and Del Rey slow dance together while singing along to the song, play guitar on a cottage porch, and bask

As promised, Donald Glover has released his new Childish Gambino song “Lithonia.” It’s the first taste of Glover’s new Gambino album Bando Stone & the New World. Check out “Lithonia”—co-produced by Glover, Ludwig Göransson, Max Martin, and Michael Uzowuru—below. Along with “Lithonia,” Glover has shared that Bando Stone & the New World is out July

Eminem is back with another new song. The Detroit rapper has released “Tobey,” a new single with fellow Michiganders Big Sean and BabyTron. To start the track, BabyTron raps, “Tobey Maguire got bit by a spider, but see, me, it was a goat.” The song’s credited producers are: Car!ton, Cole Bennett, Daniyel, Eminem, John Nocito,

The racketeering and gang conspiracy trial against Young Thug and five associates in Atlanta, Georgia—already the longest criminal trial in Georgia history at 18 months, with more to inevitably follow—has been paused indefinitely due to alleged misconduct by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville, reports The Washington Post. Earlier today, Judge Glanville announced that

Cass McCombs has announced a short North American tour for this September, kicking off shortly after a set of three reissues. Early EP Not the Way and the albums A and Prefection will get digital, vinyl, and CD reissues on September 6, from 4AD, with a cassette called 2000-2004 Demos, Live and Radio coming, via

Fresh off his Album of the Year win, for Michael, at the 2024 BET Awards, Killer Mike has dropped a new single. “Humble Me” comes with a black-and-white music video in which the rapper is stripped of his jewelry and placed in handcuffs. Through the lyrics, Killer Mike addresses his arrest at the 2024 Grammy

Clairo has released Charm’s opening track, “Nomad.” It’s the second preview of the new album, following lead single “Sexy to Someone.” Listen to Clairo’s new song below. Clairo co-produced Charm, her third studio album, with El Michels Affair’s Leon Michels. The album is out July 12, and the singer-songwriter will support the record with concerts

Blxst is readying his debut album: I’ll Always Come Find You is out July 19 via Red Bull Records and Evgle. Featured on the new album is a song with Anderson .Paak called “Dance With the Devil.” Check out the music video for the new track below. In a press statement, Blxst discussed working with

In a statement shared with Pitchfork, one of Jane Doe’s attorneys, Micha Star Liberty, called the lawsuit “a vital step towards justice, highlighting the necessity of protecting the rights of those who have been exploited.” Another of Doe’s attorneys, Helene M. Weiss, added, “Our client deserves justice, and she’s hopeful that this litigation may serve

Chvrches’ Iain Cook has made a new remix of the Cranberries’ 1993 single “Linger.” Listen to the new track below. According to a press release, Cook made his new track by deconstructing the original and reassembling it, keeping intact the vocal melody of the late singer Dolores O’Riordan. “When I got the stems, the first

Tinashe is following her April single, “Nasty,” with the new song “Getting No Sleep.” Tinashe co-wrote the new track with producers Billy Lemos and Nosaj Thing. Find the “Getting No Sleep” video, which comes with a trigger warning for people with photosensitive epilepsy, below. Along with the new song, Tinashe has announced the August 16