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Former Anti-Flag frontman Justin Sane has been ordered to pay nearly $2 million in damages to a woman who alleged that he raped her in 2010, Rolling Stone reports and Pitchfork can confirm. The woman, Kristina Sarhadi, filed a lawsuit against Justin Sane, whose legal name is Justin Cathal Geever, in 2023, but the singer

Wand frontperson Cory Hanson corralled the same lineup that recorded last year’s Vertigo for his latest solo record, the American Songbook–infused I Love People. Nostalgia whistles through airy country-folk numbers like “Bird on a Swing,” his vocals delivered in a lugubrious tone that settles like an umami note beneath the verdant compositions. Ballad “Lou Reed,”

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard release a ton of music, but you won’t be able to hear it if you’re exclusively a Spotify listener. The prolific Australian rock band has pulled nearly its entire catalog off the streaming platform without much warning or fanfare. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard first signaled their departure

Amaarae has shared a new single from Black Star, the Fountain Baby follow-up arriving next month. “Girlie-Pop!” comes with a sensual video directed by Omar Jones. Check it out below. In a press release, Amaarae said, “‘Girlie-Pop!’ started as a freestyle over an open guitar on a magical night in Brazil! I wanted to make

Drake has tapped Central Cee for a new song. The Toronto musician debuted “Which One” on Thursday evening, July 24, during the second episode of his “Iceman” livestream series. The track played while Drake and Central Cee watched a woman dance in an empty swimming pool. Listen to it below. Earlier this month, Drake dropped

Wednesday are back with another new song from Bleeds, their upcoming sixth studio album. “Pick Up That Knife” comes with a grainy, camcorder-shot music video of a couple making out in the woods and other friends gorging themselves on watermelon, as directed by Sara Melosh. Watch it below. “‘Pick Up That Knife’ is a song

Earlier this month, Lucy Dacus shared an idea on social media: What if she married couples on stage at her shows? “Just thinking about how there may be many people looking to secure those rights asap for whatever reason (!) or maybe money or logistics are getting in the way,” the singer-songwriter wrote on X,

Flock of Dimes, the solo project of Wye Oak multi-instrumentalist and producer Jenn Wasner, has announced a new album and a short tour. The Life You Save is out October 10 via Sub Pop. Leading the record is the new song “Long After Midnight,” which comes with an intimate music video directed by Spencer Kelly

Bright Eyes have shared a new song. The ska-inflected “1st World Blues” arrives with a Jared Sherbert-directed video that stars Conor Oberst alongside members of So So Glos and pro skater Nelly Morville. Watch it below. “‘1st World Blues’ is an homage to ska in all its waves,” the band said in a press statement.

FKA twigs has agreed to drop her long-running lawsuit against her former boyfriend Shia LaBeouf. According to documents obtained by Pitchfork, the musician and her lawyers filed a request to dismiss the complaint with prejudice, meaning that FKA twigs cannot refile the case. In a joint statement to Us Weekly, FKA twigs and Shia LaBeouf’s

Mariah Carey has officially announced her 16th studio album: Here for It All is out September 26. It’s Carey’s first album in her multi-album deal with Gamma., the media company launched in 2023 by former Apple executive Larry Jackson. According to a recent interview with Forbes, L.A. Reid is serving as the executive producer of

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CBS is canceling The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Stephen Colbert announced the news directly to his studio audience during the taping of his July 17 episode. “Before we start the show, I want to let you know something that I found out just last night,” he said. “Next year will be our last season.

Cleo Reed, a multidisciplinary artist based in New York, has described Cuntry as a “folk rap album that tells stories of American labor, empirical agenda, and intends to hold space for the working class.” Reed added that the album deals with the body, “particularly the Black Femme body.” Throughout the songs on Cuntry you will

Today (July 18) marks the 20th anniversary of Imogen Heap’s highly influential 2005 LP, Speak for Yourself. To celebrate, Heap is reissuing the album—her first to be entirely self-written and self-produced. Out October 17, via Megaphonic, the new edition features updated cover artwork and is led by a remastered version of its frequently sampled, famously

Chuquimamani-Condori has released a new album that collects their DJ edits from the past six years. Find the 24-track Edits below. Edits is Chuquimamani-Condori’s first solo project since 2023’s DJ E. It’s also surprise follow-up to Los Thuthanaka, their standout collaborative album with their brother, Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, that Joshua Minsoo Kim called “a dizzying

It appears that Tyler, the Creator is gearing up for something big. The musician has been posting about July 21, and, outside his concert tonight at Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York, there was a large Tyler-like figure in a box that said “DON’T TAP THE GLASS.” Digital signage on the arena also promoted the

Connie Francis, the pop singer known for hit singles like “Pretty Little Baby” and “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool,” died on Wednesday, July 16. Francis’ publicist, Ron Roberts, announced the musician’s death on Facebook, sharing that she died in a hospital in Pompano Beach, Florida. A cause of death was not provided. Francis was 87 years old.

For more than a decade, AraabMuzik has been teasing the sequel to his beloved 2011 album, Electronic Dream. Finally, he’s made it official: Electronic Dream 2 is out August 1. Below, listen to the new album’s lead single, “3AM.” If you thought that Electronic Dream 2 already existed, you’re not entirely wrong. A collection with

Singer Donita Sparks and guitarist Suzi Gardner founded L7 in 1985, and they are going to celebrate the band’s 40th anniversary with a special concert in their Los Angeles hometown. The show takes place on Friday, October 3, at the Belasco, and joining L7 on the bill are co-headliners Lunachicks and CSS. More performers will

Earlier today, it was reported that guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Eric Avery, and drummer Stephen Perkins had sued their former Jane’s Addiction bandmate Perry Farrell for assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract. Their complaint centers on the band’s ill-fated show in Boston that featured an

A new documentary about late singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Director Amy Berg’s It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley was years in the making, and includes never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s archives, as well as interviews with the artist’s mother, Mary Guibert, former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser, hiss former bandmates,

Atlanta rapper Che has confirmed that his new album Rest in Bass is out this Friday, July 18. Details on his follow-up to Sayso Says are otherwise scarce, but he’s today shared the music video for a new song with OsamaSon. Find the “Hellraiser” video below. Che caught ears last year with his songs “Miley

Jeff Tweedy is releasing a triple album. The Wilco frontman will share the 30-song Twilight Override on September 26 via dBpm. Tweedy has today released four new songs: “Enough,” “One Tiny Flower,” “Out in the Dark,” and “Stray Cats in Spain.” Listen to the tracks below. Tweedy will support Twilight Override with a full-band tour

David Kaff, who played keyboardist Viv Savage in Rob Reiner’s 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, has died. His band Mutual of Alameda’s Wild Kingdom shared the news to Facebook yesterday (July 13), writing “David always had a kind word and a quick wit that would slay you where you stand. Then he’d make you

Two Shell have released a new album that marks “the end of a chapter” for the mysterious electronic music duo. The project, IIcons, collects previously unreleased music from the group, including a song featuring vocals from Dorian Electra (“Doom Culture”), and one with contributions from the Tokyo-based musician Daigos (“As the World Bleeds”). Listen to

Jeff Lynne’s ELO—the reformed version of Lynne’s ’70s and ’80s prog-pop outfit Electric Light Orchestra—have cancelled what was slated to be their final show ever. The performance had been scheduled for tonight, July 13, to close out BST Hyde Park’s 2025 summer concert series. A statement shared with Pitchfork explains that “Jeff has been battling

Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon MusicListen/Buy at Bandcamp Fuubutsushi: Columbia Deluxe [American Dreams] Fuubutsushi—the quartet of Patrick Shiroishi, Chris Jusell, Matthew Sage, and Chaz Prymek—perform expanded compositions from across its catalog on Columbia Deluxe, an album recorded live at the Columbia Experimental Music Festival in 2021. Having founded the group