Music

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

The music video for Andy Michaels’ sleeper hit single “Darling It Hurts” starts off a lot like most lyric-focused music videos do; a melody, a mighty verse before us, an some kindred imagery to convey a deeper narrative existing beyond the poetry Michaels is singing to us with such a passionate delivery. But, with that

Brooklyn rapper Pop Smoke has died at the age of 20, TMZ and Rolling Stone report. According to TMZ’s source, he was shot during a home invasion at his house in Hollywood Hills. Pop Smoke was reportedly pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood on the morning of Wednesday, February 19. The suspects

The Weeknd has shared the title track from his new album After Hours. He’s also shared the album’s artwork and release date. The album arrives on March 20. Listen to the new song below. [embedded content] The singer announced the title of his new album in February after sharing the songs “Blinding Lights” and “Heartless”

Stephen Malkmus has shared a video of his previously unreleased song “Brainwashed.” The solo acoustic performance was filmed for La Blogothéque at La Fontaine de Belleville in Paris. He also expanded his U.S. tour in support of his forthcoming third solo album Traditional Techniques. Check out the “Brainwashed” video and the full list of dates

Foo Fighters have announced a tour celebrating the band’s 25th anniversary. The 2020 Van Tour, which will revisit cities that Foo Fighters toured through in 1995 behind their eponymous debut album, kicks off April 12 in Phoenix and will take them across North America. Find the band’s full roster of tour dates below and buy

Ozzy Osbourne has canceled his 2020 tour. The press release announcing the cancellation cites health problems and says he’ll soon seek treatment in Europe. Last month, Osbourne revealed that he’d been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Refunds are available at the point of purchase. “I’m so thankful that everyone has been patient because I’ve had a

Last year, Harry Styles covered Lizzo’s “Juice” at BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge. Lizzo promptly reacted by tweeting, “*melts*,” and, the two later performed the song together live. Now, Lizzo’s taking on a Harry Styles song: She’s covered Styles’ “Adore You” at the Live Lounge. She also did her own “Cuz I Love You” and

English DJ and producer Andrew Weatherall has died of a pulmonary embolism, his management announced today (February 17). He was 56 years old. Weatherall’s management said in a statement, “He was being treated in hospital but unfortunately the blood clot reached his heart. His death was swift and peaceful.” Andrew Weatherall began his music career

Chance the Rapper performed at the halftime show for the NBA All-Star Game in his home town of Chicago tonight (February 16). During his set, Chance was joined by Lil Wayne for a rendition of the Coloring Book track “No Problem.” Later in the performance, Quavo and DJ Khaled hopped onstage to sing “I’m the

David Byrne’s hit stage show American Utopia ends its first run tonight (February 16), following 121 performances at Hudson Theatre on Broadway. Now, Byrne has announced the popular musical’s second run, which will kick off September 18, 2020, and continue for 17 weeks through January 17, 2021. The second run will return to the Hudson

Polo G has shared a new single featuring North Carolina rapper Stunna 4 Vegas and Memphis’ NLE Choppa. The song, “Go Stupid,” is produced by Mike WiLL Made-It and Tay Keith. Check out the track’s music video, directed by Michael Garcia, below. Polo G released his debut album Die a Legend last year. He recently

Phil Elverum recently made an appearance on the weekly Blink-182 fan podcast Blink-155, which is—by the hosts’ own account—“an unnecessary podcast that reviews every Blink-182 song.” Elverum called in to talk about “I Miss You,” the ballad from the pop-punk trio’s 2003 self-titled album. “The first time I listened, I watched the video, which was

Major Lazer have teamed up with Brazilian singers MC Lan and Anitta for a new single called “Rave De Favela.” They’ve also shared a racy music video to accompany the new track. Watch Anitta, MC Lan, Diplo, and others dance around a photo studio in the clip below. Major Lazer’s last studio album was 2015’s

There is a new indictment in the federal case against R. Kelly, who is facing charges related to child pornography and obstruction of justice. The superseding indictment was filed yesterday (February 13) in an Illinois federal court. It replaces the original indictment from July 2019. There are no new charges against R. Kelly in the

Henry Rollins has been announced as the voice of Tri-Klops in Netflix’s animated He-Man Reboot, Deadline reports. Tri-Klops is a henchman of the villain Skeletor. Both charaters are enemies of the main protagonist, He-Man. The voice cast for the forthcoming Masters Of The Universe: Revelation series also includes Mark Hamill (as Skeletor), Sarah Michelle Gellar,

Tonight (February 14), Hannibal Buress is playing in the 2020 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game presented by Ruffles in Chicago. He’s shared two new tracks to celebrate the occasion. One is a remix of Kurtis Blow’s “Basketball” and the other is a new “All-Star Juke Remix” of the “Hannibal’s Hands” meme from The Eric Andre Show.

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 Tame Impala, Katie Gately, yMusic, the Men, Soakie, and A Boogie Wit Da

Bronx rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie has announced that his new album is coming at the end of the week. Artist 2.0—the sequel to his debut 2014 mixtape Artist—is out February 14 via Highbridge the Label/Atlantic. Watch a trailer for the new album below. The new album is set to feature the previously shared