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Bad Bunny has just released his new LP YHLQMDLG. The new 20-track album features his Sech collaboration “Ignorantes,” as well as guest appearances by Daddy Yankee, Duki, Jowel Y Randy, and more. Listen to YHLQMDLG below. According to a press release, YHLQMDLG stands for “Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana,” which means “I

In 2016, Brooklyn band Satorii filed a lawsuit asserting that Woody Guthrie’s iconic folk song “This Land Is Your Land” belongs in the public domain. Now, according to a report by The New York Times’ Ben Sisario, a federal judge has rejected the attempt to release the song from its copyright holders and free it

100 gecs have announced a world tour. Laura Les and Dylan Brady have dates across North America, Europe, and Australia this spring and summer. The trek includes stops at this year’s Coachella and Primavera Sound. Find those dates in the tour poster below and get tickets here. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made

Green Day have called off a string of March tour dates in Asia “due to the health + travel concerns with coronavirus.” The posted a statement announcing that their upcoming performances are postponed, which you can read it in full below. Green Day’s postponement came on the heels of BTS canceling a handful of April

David Byrne appears alongside John Mulaney and Saturday Night Live cast member Heidi Gardner in a promo for this week’s episode. Watch it below. Mulaney hosts the Leap Day episode of Saturday Night Live, and Byrne will be this week’s musical guest. Mulaney previously hosted SNL in March 2019 and April 2018. David Byrne’s American

The National have covered INXS’ “Never Tear Us Apart” for a new Australian bushfire relief compilation. Listen below. Australian songwriter and musician Julia Stone is spearheading the new Songs for Australia compilation, which comes out digitally on March 5 via BMG. The album will benefit those “who are working towards creating a better future for

Disclosure have shared another new song, their second single to be released this week. It’s called “Tondo” and it heavily samples the song “Tondoho Mba” by Cameroonian artist Eko Roosevelt. Listen below. “Over the past few years, we have been exploring more and more African genres of music,” the Lawrence brothers said in a press

Built to Spill have announced a U.S. tour. The dates will feature an all-new lineup joining frontman Doug Martsch, including bassist Melanie Radford and drummer Teresa Esguerra, as BrooklynVegan notes. The tour kicks off this spring in Portland and currently wraps up in Denver in August. Find the full itinerary below and buy tickets here.

Phoebe Bridgers has returned with a new single. “Garden Song” arrives with a video directed by her brother Jackson Bridgers. To create the visual, Bridgers asked her brother to orchestrate a serious of surprises to take place while she smoked a bong. Among them is an appearance from Tig Notaro dressed as a monk. Watch

Richard Russell, the producer and musician best known as the head of XL Recordings, has announced a new album from his Everything Is Recorded project. FRIDAY FOREVER is out April 3 via XL—one day after the release of his new memoir. He’s also shared a new song from the album. Listen to “03:15AM / CAVIAR,”

Throwing Muses have announced Sun Racket, their first new album in seven years. The 10-song LP is due out May 22 via Rough Trade. Check out the first single “Dark Blue” below. Sun Racket is the band’s 10th studio album and the followup to 2013’s Purgatory/Paradise, which was released as an art book packaged with

Chicano Batman have announced their fourth LP Invisible People. The Los Angeles band’s follow-up to 2017’s Freedom Is Free arrives May 1 via ATO. The new album is a collaboration with engineer Shawn Everett and producer Leon Michels. The announcement arrives with the new song “Color my life.” Watch the George Mays-directed video below. Find

The latest episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon was an episode-length celebration of BTS. The band, who just released their new album MAP OF THE SOUL : 7, hung out around New York City with Fallon. They sat down in an empty subway car with Fallon for an interview about their careers, their

Yeasayer have sued Kendrick Lamar and the Weeknd over the Black Panther soundtrack single “Pray For Me,” TMZ reports and documents viewed by Pitchfork confirm. The band claims in the lawsuit that “Pray For Me” infringes on their All Hour Cymbals song “Sunrise.” The band claims that “Pray For Me” features a “distinctive choral performance”

Atlanta rapper Young Nudy has released his new mixtape Anyways. It includes his recent song “No Go.” Listen to the tape below (via Young Nudy, LLC/Same Plate/RCA Records). Anyways follows Nudy’s 2019 full-length collaboration with Pi’erre Bourne Sli’merre. He also shared his Faded in the Booth mixtape last year. Young Nudy heads out on tour

BTS have released their new album, MAP OF THE SOUL : 7. The 20-track album features songs from their last release, 2019’s MAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA, plus, as its closer an alternative version of the lead single “ON” featuring Sia. The album drop is accompanied by a music video (or “Kinetic Manifesto Film”)

Alanis Morissette has shared a new song. Listen to “Smiling,” the opener of her new LP Such Pretty Forks in the Road, below. Co-written with Michael Farrell and produced by Alex Hope, the single appears in the Jagged Little Pill Broadway show. Such Pretty Forks in the Road, Morissette’s first album since 2012’s Havoc and

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 albums from Grimes, King Krule, Kamaiyah, Greg Dulli, Medhane, and Sunny Jain. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s

Allie X has tapped Mitski for a new collaboration, “Susie Save Your Love.” The song appears on the Canadian singer-songwriter’s new album Cape God, which also features Troye Sivan. She and Mitski co-wrote the song; it was produced by Oscar Görres (aka OzGo) and Valley Girl (Nate Campany). Listen to that below. Back in 2018,

James Blake is set to perform with the Los Angeles Philharmonic this summer. The show, conducted by Thomas Wilkins, takes place on Saturday, August 22 at the Hollywood Bowl. Check out the event poster below. Blake is playing shows in support of his Grammy-nominated record Assume Form. Find his schedule below. Get tickets here. (Pitchfork

Burna Boy has announced his Twice as Tall tour. He’ll play U.S. shows this spring, followed by stops in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Canada in the summer. Check out Burna Boy’s tour poster below. Get tickets here. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.) Burna Boy released

The United Kingdom’s Home Office has announced new regulations that will require musicians from the European Union to apply for Tier 5 visas in order to tour in the UK once the Brexit transition period ends in December 2020. The UK’s new “points-based immigration system” will end free movement from EU-member countries to the UK,

Brandi Carlile has been named the Record Store Day 2020 Ambassador. She’s the latest in a line of artists selected by RSD organizers to represent the annual event, which falls on April 18 this year. Past artists to be named ambassador include Pearl Jam (2019), Run the Jewels (2018), St. Vincent (2017), and Metallica (2016).

Willie Nelson has announced a new studio album, First Rose of Spring. It’s out April 24 via Legacy. Listen to the title track from the record below. Scroll down for the album cover, created by Nelson’s son Micah. Buddy Cannon produced First Rose of Spring. He and Nelson also co-wrote two new songs on the

Radiohead have recently been sharing rarities on their online library archive. Tonight, they dropped a new rarity on streaming services. Listen to an extended version of “Treefingers” from Kid A below. This year marks the 20th anniversary of Kid A. In 2017, Radiohead reissued a 20th anniversary edition of OK Computer titled OKNOTOK. Last year,

JPEGMAFIA dropped a new song called “BALD!” tonight (February 20). Take a listen to the track below. He teased “BALD!” earlier in the evening, tweeting “MY NEW MUSIC WILL TARGET THE BALD DEMOGRAPHIC.” and “IF U GOT A FUCKED UP HAIRLINE THIS FOR U.” His most recent album was 2019’s All My Heroes Are Cornballs,

Archers of Loaf haven’t released a new song since their final studio album White Trash Heroes came out in 1998. That changes today. Listen to “Raleigh Days,” the North Carolina indie rock institution’s first new song in over two decades, below. The band has also announced a new string of tour dates. Find their tour

Buzzy Linhart, a mainstay of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s and ’70s, died on February 13 in Berkeley, California, the New York Times reports. Linhart’s health had been in decline since a 2018 heart attack. He was 76. Linhart was born in Pittsburgh in 1943 to musician parents and later raised in

Arca has shared a new 62-minute single called “@@@@@.” It’s her first official new music since 2017’s self-titled LP. In a statement about “@@@@@,” which premiered via her NTS Radio collaboration DIVA EXPERIMENTAL FM, Arca said: “@@@@@” is a transmission broadcasted into this world from a speculative fictional universe in which the fundamentally analogue format