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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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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
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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
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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.)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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