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Little Dragon have announced 2020 tour dates. The first show takes place next March in Stockholm, Sweden. The band will then play European shows for the rest of the month, followed by North American concerts in April and May. Check out Little Dragon’s tour poster below. Get tickets here. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from

The latest installment of Tidal’s annual Tidal X benefit concert is taking place at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. This year’s event is being presented in conjunction with Rock the Vote in an effort to support awareness for voter registration, education, and rights. The night is set to feature performances from Lil Uzi Vert, Alicia Keys, Ty

Juice WRLD has been sued by the pop punk band Yellowcard, The Blast and Billboard report. The band, which broke up in 2017, claims that his “Lucid Dreams” copied melodic elements of their song “Holly Wood Died” without permission. Yellowcard’s members are seeking $15 million, royalties, and co-ownership of the song. In addition to Juice

Brandi Carlile has pulled out of this week’s Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit due to the D.C. event’s inclusion of Kirstjen Nielsen, the former U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary. “I don’t think that human rights violators and merit-based abusers of displaced people should be given a platform to ‘reimagine’ history,” Carlile wrote in a

Kanye West has a new release date for Jesus Is King. This time, he’s tweeted that it’s out on October 25. He tweeted the news with the below image of the album on vinyl. It’s due the same day that an accompanying documentary film is coming to IMAX theaters. Jesus Is King was originally announced

The Philadelphia post-hardcore band mewithoutYou will apparently call it quits in the coming months. “We have decided on next year as our last as an active band,” they wrote in a statement on social media. “We nevertheless have many plans in the interim, the details of which are forthcoming.” Next year will mark 20 years

Nick Tosches, the revered music journalist and biographer, has died. He was 69 years old, according to The New York Times. Though the cause of death has not been determined, Tosches had reportedly been ill. Tosches began his career in the late 1960s, alongside critics such as Lester Bangs and Richard Meltzer. The three iconic

Frank Ocean’s Beats 1 radio program “blonded RADIO” is back with a new episode. It’s live streaming now; check it out here. Vegyn and Roof Access have returned to host the episode alongside Ocean himself. It marks the first new installment of the show since the 2018 Christmas episode aired last December. The show kicked

Frank Ocean returned to Beats 1 today for another episode of “blonded RADIO.” Near the end of the broadcast, he released a new song called “DHL.” It’s available on iTunes—find it here or check it out below. [embedded content] The new song follows the tease of other new songs called “Cayendo” and “Dear April” from

Frank Ocean has announced a pair of new singles. Listings for the vinyl releases of “Dear April” and “Cayendo” appeared yesterday on his Blonded website (as Frank Ocean Daily points out). The listings featured footage of Justice and Sango playing their respective remixes of the tracks, presumably filmed at Frank’s PrEP+ club night on Thursday.

This year, Insecure creator and star Issa Rae co-founded a new music label called Raedio. Rae and her label have now partnered with Atlantic Records, as Variety notes. To mark the partnership, Raedio has shared “Kinda Love,” a new single from Boston-born and Los Angeles-based Haitian-American singer TeaMarrr. It comes with a music video featuring

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”