Vic Mensa has announced that his punk project 93PUNX will perform a “Fuck I.C.E.” protest concert on September 1 at I.C.E.’s Downtown Los Angeles headquarters. Mensa took to Instagram to break the news, writing in the post’s caption: “@93punx guerrilla performance at I.C.E. headquarters in LA monday 4pm 🦍 meet me there.” Mensa’s post doesn’t
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It looks like Kim Kardashian West has revealed that her husband Kanye West is releasing a new album next month. The record appears to be called Jesus Is King and it looks set to arrive on September 27. Check out the tweet below. Pitchfork has reached out to Kanye West’s representatives for more information. Last
Skrillex, Boys Noize, and Ty Dolla $ign have shared a new song called “Midnight Hour.” Check it out below. [embedded content] “Midnight Hour” is Skrillex and Ty Dolla $ign’s third collaboration this year, following “two nights part ii” (with Lykke Li) and “Malokera” (with MC Lan, TroyBoi, and Ludmilla). Last year, they worked together on
Pusha T has shared a new song featuring Ms. Lauryn Hill. The single, called “Coming Home,” is co-produced by Charlie Heat, Kanye West, and Mike Dean. Listen to “Coming Home” below (via G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam Recordings). Along with the new song, Pusha T has launched the “Third Strike Coming Home Campaign” with Brittany K. Barnett’s
Cigarettes After Sex have announced their second studio album. It’s called Cry and it arrives October 25 via Partisan. Today’s album announcement comes with the record’s first single, “Heavenly.” Listen to that below. Find physical editions of Cry at Rough Trade. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)
The Save the Music Foundation has announced the launch of the J Dilla Music Tech Grant, a program that will fund electronic music creation, recording, and production training for public high school students. Named after the late iconic producer, the grant aims to foster music education with nontraditional instruments and production methods. Grant schools receive
When Taylor Swift won Video of the Year last night at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards for “You Need to Calm Down,” she took a moment to mention the Equality Act petition attached to the video. She noted that it had gathered “five times” the number of signatures required to “warrant a response from
The PondHawks, a Chicago based, genre defying duo, is creating a buzz both nationally and internationally with their new single, “Afraid of Love.” In the style of the Beatles, yet with their own unique sound and vibe’ “Afraid of Love” makes a statement. Mario and Jorie have a musical chemistry that is unmatched. Their harmonies
Brooklyn singer-songwriter Madison McFerrin has announced a new EP. You + I is due out November 5, following last year’s Finding Foundations, Vol. II EP. It marks her first project in which there is full instrumental backing behind her vocals. Along with the announcement, McFerrin has shared You + I’s lead single, entitled “Try.” In
The 2019 MTV Video Music Awards closed out with a performance that celebrated the show’s first-ever New Jersey iteration. The finale featured Naughty by Nature, Redman, Fetty Wap, and Wyclef Jean—all of whom are from the Garden State. They performed their biggest hits, including “Trap Queen,” “O.P.P.,” “Hip Hop Hooray,” and “Gone Till November.” Then
Bad Bunny and frequent collaborator J Balvin took the stage tonight at Newark’s Prudential Center for the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards. They played recent single “Que Pretendes” from their joint LP OASIS, all while dangling from the ceiling, dancing with bouncing animals, and tromping around in very large shoes. Check out their bonkers performance
Today (August 26) is Women’s Equality Day, and nearly 140 musicians—including Lady Gaga, Lizzo, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, and many others—have joined a new Planned Parenthood campaign called #BansOffMyBody in support of reproductive rights and abortion access. The artists have signed their names in a new full-page ad running in the August 24 issue of
Dave Chappelle hosted a block party and benefit concert in Dayton, Ohio tonight (August 25) honoring the victims of the recent mass shooting in the city’s Oregon District. Surprise performers included Stevie Wonder, Chance the Rapper, Teyana Taylor, Thundercat, and others. Find clips of Stevie Wonder performing “Higher Ground” and “Superstitious” below, as well as
A film adaptation of the wildly popular AMC series “Breaking Bad” has finally been announced. According to a recent report by The New York Times, the film—titled El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie—is slated for an October 11 release on Netflix, and will star Aaron Paul reprising his role as Jesse Pinkman. Netflix has shared
Kanye West’s weekly gospel and worship Sunday Service series is in Dayton, Ohio today. As Kim Kardashian West notes on Twitter, the event is happening “in support of the victims and survivors of the Dayton mass shooting.” Watch it happen here. Today, Dave Chappelle is also hosting a block party in Dayton as a benefit
Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are teaming up for another film score…but this time, it’s for Pixar, as Variety points out. The Disney-owned animation studio responsible for classics like the Toy Story franchise, A Bug’s Life, and Wally recently announced a new movie called Soul, which includes a voice cast of Questlove,
David Byrne has launched a new solutions-oriented online magazine called Reasons to Be Cheerful. RTBC will publish stories “detailing real changes with measurable impact that are meant to inspire and uplift,” according to a press release. Watch a trailer for RTBC below. RTBC covers many subjects, such as health, culture, science and technology, climate and
Chromatics have released a new song, “I Want to Be Alone,” with a psychedelic video directed by Johnny Jewel. Watch it below. The song follows the single “Time Rider,” released earlier this year ahead of a spring North American tour. In May 2018, Chromatics released the single “Black Walls,” announcing that Dear Tommy, their long-awaited
Vagabon is changing the title of her sophomore album. The record, previously known as All the Women in Me, is now called Vagabon. The LP is also getting a new release date. It was previously set to come out September 27, and will now arrive October 18 via Nonesuch. Below, check out the new cover
Bad Bunny and J Balvin have dropped the video for “Cuidao por Ahí,” the third visual from their collaborative LP OASIS. It was shot on the Greek island Mykonos and directed by Colin Tilley, who previously helmed the clip for “Que Pretendes.” In the bizarre new clip, Bad Bunny and Balvin bring heavy goth vibes
The alluring, pulchritudinous, and bewitching pop/Funk/blue-eyed soul recording artist, Israeli born, Kfir Danieli has hit the New Music Weekly Top 40 Music Charts at number 32, with his attitude driven super-hit “Drama Queen”, right behind One Republic, and surpassing multi-platinum recording stars Drake and Katy Perry. Re-inventing his already successfully, sensational dance career with song
Jim James, frontman of My Morning Jacket, is releasing a new album with conductor/composer Teddy Abrams and the Louisville Orchestra. The Order of Nature comes out on October 18 via Decca Gold. Below, listen to the album’s “Set It to Song.” Scroll down for the first part of a mini-documentary on the making of The
Bill Callahan played New York’s Webster Hall tonight during the East Coast leg of his Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest tour. During his set, he paid tribute to his late friend and label-mate David Berman by covering Berman’s Silver Jews song “I Remember Me.” Callahan also reportedly played Silver Jews’ 1994 song “Trains Across the
Indie duo Whitney are being honored by their hometown of Chicago. Today, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that August 30 will be Whitney Day, in celebration of the group and their forthcoming LP Forever Turned Around, which arrives the same day via Secretly Canadian. The group will celebrate with various events around their native city, including
Kodak Black has pled not guilty to federal weapons charges, CBSMiami and The Associated Press report. According to The AP, authorities say that Kodak could face up to eight years in prison. Sentencing is reportedly set for November 13. Pitchfork has reached out to Kodak Black’s lawyers and representatives. Kodak was arrested on the charges
An appellate court has ruled on Wednesday that iconic film composer Ennio Morricone may reclaim the rights to his film scores, THR reports. Morricone sued Bixio Music Group in 2016 in an attempt to regain the copyrights to six of his film scores from the late ’70s and early ’80s. Morricone argued that his contract
Eminem’s publishing company Eight Mile Style filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit against Spotify today, THR reports and documents viewed by Pitchfork confirm. The lawsuit claims that Spotify has no license to host about 250 of Eminem’s songs including many of his biggest hits (“My Name Is,” “Lose Yourself,” “Stan,” “Without Me,” “The Real Slim
Los Angeles alt-rock band that dog. are back with their first new material in more than 20 years. “If You Just Didn’t Do It” is the first single from Old LP, their first album since 1997’s Retreat from the Sun; it’s out October 4 via UMe. Listen to the new track below. The band’s lineup
Amen Dunes (a.k.a. Damon McMahon) has released a remix to his song “L.A.” featuring British singer-songwriter Westerman. McMahon remixed the closing track from his 2018 Sacred Bones LP Freedom with the Grammy-winning engineer Craig Silvey, trading verses and harmonizing with the “Easy Money” singer. Listen to the track below. Amen Dunes recently played the 2019
Animal Collective’s Avey Tare and Geologist have released the sprawling new composition ”Summer Blaze.” The nearly 25-minute long track serves as side A of the New Psycho Actives Vol. 2 single. Listen to the track below. The record serves as a sequel of sorts to the 2015 split New Psycho Actives Vol. 1 , which