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Frank Ocean has penned a lengthy note on Tumblr addressing criticism of his queer club night PrEP+, which launched last night New York City. According to a press release, PrEP+ paid “homage to what could have been of the 1980s’ NYC club scene if the drug… had been invented in that era.” In the note,

The Prince Estate has released a previously unheard acoustic demo of his song “I Feel for You,” originally featured on his self-titled second album in 1979. Check that out below. “I Feel for You” became a hit years after its release by Chaka Khan, who covered it on her studio album of the same name

The Flaming Lips have announced their first-ever official live album. The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra captures a 2016 live performance of the band’s landmark 1999 LP. The concert was recorded with a 68-piece orchestra and 57-person choir conducted by Andre De Ridder. The album arrives November 29

Yesterday, Amazon Web Services announced Intersect Music Festival, which takes place in Las Vegas from December 6-7. The lineup includes Foo Fighters, Beck, Kacey Musgraves, Anderson .Paak, and many more. The Black Madonna is also featured on the lineup, and today, she’s expressed outrage over Amazon’s involvement in the event. She wrote that Amazon was

The beloved films of Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli will soon be made available to stream for the first time. HBO Max has announced it has picked up the exclusive streaming rights to all of the entire Studio Ghibli catalog, which includes Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaä

Beck has released “Hyperlife” and “Uneventful Days,” two new songs from his forthcoming LP Hyperspace. The album is due out November 22 via Capitol. Listen to both songs below. Earlier this year, Beck promised the new album with the release of a Pharrell-assisted new single called “Saw Lightning.” Find physical editions of Hyperspace at Rough

Arca has announced that her music will soundtrack the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. A composition she wrote using the Bronze AI engine will play for two years once the museum reopens on October 21 after four months of renovations. The Bronze format allows artists to make what is described

Ben Cook has stepped down from his position as president of Atlantic Records UK following rumors of a controversial costume he wore to an event, the BBC reports. “Seven years ago, at a birthday party where guests were asked to come dressed as their favorite musical icon, I came as a member of Run-D.M.C.,” Cook

In one of the most high profile performances in its history, NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series welcomed Taylor Swift to the NPR offices for its latest instalment. Before heading out on a 2020 world tour, she sat behind the desk to perform, mostly acoustic, songs from her new album Lover. Of the album, she says

Earlier this year, Mute Records announced that they had partnered with Throbbing Gristle to bring the band’s discography to streaming services for the first time. The label also revealed that they planned to make “long out of print and important pieces of work” from the band publicly available, both physically and digitally, for the first

Kevin Morby has announced a brand new string of tour dates in support of his recent album Oh My God. The new additions take place next April in the United States. Check out Morby’s latest tour posters below. Find the rest of his dates at his website. Get tickets here. (Pitchfork may earn a commission

The influential slowcore band Duster have announced their first new album in 19 years. The self-titled LP spans 12 tracks and arrives December 13 via Muddguts. Check out the cover art, which features a painting by Salvatore Olentino, below. Earlier this year, Duster shared the new song “Interstellar Tunnel” (which will not appear on the

Katy Perry, Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, Capitol Records, and others are appealing a recent ruling that Perry’s “Dark Horse” plagiarizes a Christian rap single from 2009, Variety reports and Pitchfork can confirm. In the appeal over the lawsuit focusing on rapper Flame’s 2009 single “Joyful Noise,” Perry and the rest asked the court to overturn

In a new interview with GQ’s Will Welch, Pharrell has denounced “Blurred Lines,” the 2013 Robin Thicke song that he co-wrote and featured on. “I didn’t get it at first,” he said. “Because there were older white women who, when that song came on, they would behave in some of the most surprising ways ever.

TNGHT recently stopped by BBC Radio 1 to share their new Essential Mix. The electronic music duo of Hudson Mohawke and Lunice played unreleased tracks in addition to music from Rustie, JPEGMAFIA, Scratcha DVA, J-E-T-S, Girl Unit, and more. Check it out here. Last month, TNGHT released “Serpent,” their first new song in six years

Queen Latifah will be honored by Harvard University for her contributions to black history and culture, the Associated Press reports. Latifah is one of seven honorees who will receive the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal on October 22. Other recipients include poet and educator Elizabeth Alexander, artist Kerry James Marshall, and more. The medal is named

Camila Cabello was the musical guest on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live. She played “Cry for Me” and “Easy,” performing the former in elaborate rococo dress and the latter in a more modern white dress. Check it out below. Camila Cabello’s last studio album was 2018’s Camila. More recently Cabello shared singles “Señorita”

Chance the Rapper will host and perform on Saturday Night Live October 26, joining the ranks of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Woody Harrelson, and Stranger Things’ David Harbour as hosts for the show’s 45th season. Chance released his most recent album, The Big Day, in July. He released a new video for his song “We Go High”

Several artists scheduled to perform at this weekend’s Rolling Loud music festival at New York City’s Citi Field have been removed from the lineup after the New York City Police Department sent a letter to festival organizers requesting their removal, as The New York Times’ Joe Coscarelli reports. Casanova, Pop Smoke, Sheff G, Don Q,

On Thursday, October 10, Zedd tweeted out that he had been “permanently banned” from China for liking a South Park tweet celebrating the 300th episode of the long-running Comedy Central series. While it’s unclear whether this means that his music is banned from Chinese airplay or if the producer/DJ himself is banned from traveling to

Neil Young and Crazy Horse have announced a new documentary chronicling the creation of their forthcoming album Colorado. It’s called Mountaintop, and you can check out the film’s trailer below. [embedded content] Colorado marks Neil Young’s first record with Crazy Horse in seven years. The album arrives October 25 via Reprise, while Mountaintop hits theaters

Young Thug and Lil Uzi Vert have shared a brand new music video for their joint track “What’s the Move.” Watch Thug and Uzi hit the club in the Hidji Films-directed visual below. “What’s the Move” appears on Young Thug’s most recent album So Much Fun, which came out in August and features contributions from

Pitchfork is pleased to announce “The Best Party of the 2010s,” a celebration of our Best Songs and Best Albums of the 2010s lists. The release party will take place at The Dance, a new venue in New York City, on Thursday, October 17 at 8 p.m. The event will feature Pitchfork editors and contributors

Julien Baker has shared two recent songs on streaming platforms for the first time. “Tokyo” and “Sucker Punch” first appeared in a vinyl-only collection of singles for Sub Pop last year, but you can listen to them online below. Earlier this year, two other fresh songs from Baker made their way to streaming. She also

British grime star Stormzy is featured on the latest cover of TIME Magazine. The rapper sat down with his rottweiler Enzo and reporter Renni Eddo-Lodge to discuss his headlining set at Glastonbury this year, his publishing imprint Merky Books, and more. Of his dedication to supporting black British culture, Stormzy said, “There’s a whole side

Will Smith is overseeing the development of a new Fresh Prince of Bel-Air spinoff series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In a new story on the movie star/rapper and his various commercial exploits, it is reported that Westbrook—a new company overseen by Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith—will be handling production. The Fresh Prince

Lana Del Rey has announced a new batch of U.S. concerts. The new shows in support of Norman Fucking Rockwell! take place this November. Check out Lana’s full itinerary below. Get tickets here. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.) Lana began her NFR! tour in September. At

Jack White’s Third Man Records and Misfire have launched a new podcast about the White Stripes Hosted by Kentucky journalist Sean Cannon, the first season of Striped: The Story of the White Stripes will retrace the band’s early days through interviews with friends, fans, and other musicians. Below, listen to a trailer for Striped, as

Charly Bliss are the latest guests to perform at NPR’s Tiny Desk. Joined by a string section courtesy of Washington, D.C.’s Rogue Collective, they played three songs off this year’s Young Enough. Watch the band perform rearrangements of “Capacity,” “Young Enough,” and “Chatroom” below. “It’s been really incredible rearranging these songs for this [Tiny Desk