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Grateful Dead have broken the record for the most Top 40 albums on the Billboard 200 charts, surpassing previous holders of the title Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. Dave’s Picks Vol. 49 became the jam band’s 59th album to cross into the Top 40. Presley, Sinatra, and Grateful Dead were previously tied with 58 albums

Last night, at the 2024 Grammys, Phoebe Bridgers called out former Recording Academy chairman and CEO Neil Portnow, telling him to “rot in piss” over his infamous 2018 comments about women in music, as well as the sexual assault allegations he is currently facing. Bridgers and her Boygenius bandmates, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus, were

Billy Joel performed at the 2024 Grammy Awards tonight, and below, you can watch him do it. The Long Island singer-songwriter, who performed multiple times in the 1980s and ’90s, returned to play his new song “Turn the Lights Back on”—his first in 17 years—at “at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. He released the single

The 2024 Grammy Awards are today (Sunday, February 4) in Los Angeles. SZA enters the day with nine nominations, the most in the field. Victoria Monét, engineer Serban Ghenea, and Phoebe Bridgers are close behind, earning seven nods each. As a solo artist, Bridgers received just one more nomination than her bandmates in Boygenius, who

Alana Haim and Teyana Taylor will star in a new Paul Thomas Anderson film, a source confirmed to Pitchfork. The news, broken by The Hollywood Reporter, completes the unnamed movie’s main cast, which already included Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Regina Hall. Wood Harris and Shayna McHayle are also on board. Anderson wrote the script,

After teasing its release, Burial has finally shared his new two-track EP, Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above, on XL Recordings. This is the first time that the British producer, whose landmark albums for Hyperdub helped popularize the label in the 2000s, has released his solo music on a different label. The 12″ vinyl version will come

Billed as the late Lee “Scratch” Perry’s final studio album, King Perry comprises tracks the dub legend worked on until days before his death in 2021. As well as Perry’s collaborator in the studio, producer Daniel Boyle, the album features vocal contributions from Tricky, Happy Mondays’ Shaun Ryder, and Greentea Peng, among others. On album

Back to Black, the new Amy Winehouse biopic directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, has an official trailer after last month’s teaser. Marisa Abela portrays the late singer in her ascendancy from a plucky teenager to a troubled icon of jazz and pop; the trailer focuses on her bloody-minded approach to her career, and the friends, family,

Wayne Kramer, the co-founder, lead guitarist, and vocalist of the iconic Detroit proto-punk outfit MC5, has died. The news was shared on Kramer and MC5’s official social media pages. A cause of death was not disclosed. Kramer was 75 years old. Kramer and his bandmates got their start a young age, forming the Bounty Hunters

Boygenius played two acoustic sets last night at the Smell in downtown Los Angeles. During the shows, they said, “We’re going away for the foreseeable future,” and Boygenius’ representatives confirmed to Pitchfork that the group is going hiatus. Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus formed Boygenius in 2018, sharing their self-titled debut EP that

TiaCorine has dropped her new Almost There EP. The North Carolina rapper’s major label debut—as its her first project on Interscope—is eight tracks long, including the previously released singles “Yung Joc” and “Bonnet.” Listen to the EP in its entirety below. Almost There boasts three guest features across its runtime. Luh Tyler appears on “Yung

Lil Yachty has shared a new song titled “A Cold Sunday.” The Aris Tatalovich-produced single comes with a music video directed by AMD Visuals, in which he raps along to the song through multiple screens simultaneously and ruminates on heartbreak over a soulful jazz riff. Check it out below. “A Cold Sunday” follows Lil Yachty’s

Schoolboy Q is on his way back. The Top Dawg Entertainment rapper has shared the tracklist for his new album, Blue Lips, and indicated that it will arrive on March 1. See the tracklist trailer below. Schoolboy Q has been relatively quiet since releasing his fifth studio album, Crash Talk, in April 2019. Prominently, he

Billy Joel is officially back. As promised, the Long Island singer-songwriter has released “Turn the Lights Back,” his first original song since 2007. Listen to the new song—produced by Freddy Wexler and co-written by Joel, Wexler, Arthur Bacon, and Wayne Hector—below. Freddy Wexler is a prominent pop producer and songwriter. He’s worked on Ariana Grande

Florence and the Machine have released a cover of composer Walter Kent and lyricist Nat Burton’s “(There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover.” Florence Welch recorded the song with producer Jack Antonoff for his soundtrack to the new Apple TV+ show The New Look. Listen to the cover below. The New Look is

The Recording Academy and the Black Music Collective will present Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz with 2024’s Global Impact Awards, according to Billboard. Carey and Kravitz will accept the trophies on Thursday, February 1, at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The Global Impact Award is a CEO Merit Award that recognizes Black music

Joni Mitchell has announced a concert at California’s Hollywood Bowl. The show takes place on Saturday, October 19, 2024, and features Brandi Carlile and her Joni Jam band. A previous Joni Jam show at Washington’s Gorge Amphitheatre featured Annie Lennox, Sarah McLachlan, Marcus Mumford, Wynonna Judd, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, Lucius and more. Mitchell is

Kara Jackson has announced spring tour dates behind her breakout debut, Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? The tour—which Jackson is calling the No Fun Tour—begins in the singer’s Chicago hometown in April. See all of Jackson’s tour dates below. Read more about Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?

Hovvdy: 01-31 San Francisco, CA – Fillmore *02-01 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom *02-02 Vancouver, British Colombia – Vogue *02-03 Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre *02-05 Boise, ID – Knitting Factory *02-06 Bozeman, MT – The Elm *02-08 Aspen, CO – Belly Up *02-09 Englewood, CO – Gothic Theater *02-10 Englewood, CO – Gothic Theater

Khruangbin have announced a North American tour in support of their new album, A la Sala. The tour kicks off with a Sunday performance at the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. After that, the Houston trio will continue playing shows into the fall. Khruangbin will have support on tour from Hermanos Gutiérrez, John

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Teresa A. Beaudet has ordered Marilyn Manson to pay Evan Rachel Wood’s legal fees that she accrued while defending against his defamation and emotional distress claims that have since been removed from Manson’s still-pending lawsuit against her, reports Rolling Stone. That amount is slightly less than the total Wood

After earning the most nominations at this year’s Grammy Awards, SZA has been announced as a performer at the event on Sunday, February 4. SZA is up for nine awards, including Album of the Year. The other performers at the 2024 Grammys include Joni Mitchell, Burna Boy, Luke Combs, Billie Eilish, Billy Joel, Dua Lipa,

Justin Timberlake just returned with a new song and the promise of a new album, and he is not stopping there: The pop singer has now announced the Forget Tomorrow World Tour. For now, the “world” encompasses just the United States and Canada, with Timberlake kicking off the tour in Vancouver on April 29. He’s

Justin Timberlake capped off his big week with an appearance last night on Saturday Night Live. On the program, he debuted a new song with Houston rapper Tobe Nwigwe called “Sanctified.” For his second performance, he did his new single, “Selfish.” Watch Timberlake perform on SNL below. Also on Saturday Night Live last night, Timberlake

Joni Mitchell will be performing at the 2024 Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 4. It’ll be the first time that the 18-time nominee takes the stage at the ceremony. The other performers at the 2024 Grammys are: Burna Boy, Luke Combs, Billie Eilish, Billy Joel, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Travis Scott, and U2, the latter

Pharrell Williams has announced a biopic, Piece by Piece, that he made with the Lego Group. The movie is described in a press release as “an unparalleled motion picture experience that captures the magic and brilliance of Pharrell Williams’ creative genius, one Lego brick at a time.” It also says that the film “defies genres

Not long after releasing “Just Another Rainbow,” Oasis’ Liam Gallagher and the Stone Roses’ John Squire have now shared the details of their debut collaborative album. The new release, simply called Liam Gallagher & John Squire, is out March 1. Listen to the duo’s new single, “Mars to Liverpool,” below. Gallagher and Squire made their

Earlier this month, 21 Savage dropped an expensive-looking trailer for a film called American Dream: The 21 Savage Story. The clip starred Donald Glover and Stranger Things’ Caleb McLaughlin as adult and child versions of the rapper. Now, as many fans and critics speculated, 21 Savage has confirmed that the whole thing was a joke.