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News Watch Japanese Breakfast Perform “Be Sweet,” “Jimmy Fallon Big” on Fallon The songwriter brings her new Jubilee song and her Fallon homage to Fallon’s show By Evan Minsker March 16, 2021 Facebook Twitter Japanese Breakfast on Fallon Facebook Twitter Japanese Breakfast was the musical guest on last night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring

News Musicians Organize Global Protests at Spotify Offices The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers’ “Justice at Spotify” campaign mobilized workers in 31 cities around the world By Matthew Ismael Ruiz March 15, 2021 Facebook Twitter A musician holds a banner in front of Spotify headquarters in Madrid, Spain, March 15, 2021, as part of

News Crumb, Lily Konigsberg, Xenia Rubinos, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist Our weekly playlist highlights songs that our writers, editors, and contributors are listening to on repeat By Pitchfork March 15, 2021 Facebook Twitter Graphic by Drew Litowitz Facebook Twitter The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot

News Grammys 2021 Winners: See The Full List Here Beyoncé, Fiona Apple, Taylor Swift, Megan Thee Stallion, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, and more took home awards By Evan Minsker March 14, 2021 Facebook Twitter Beyoncé and Megan Thee Stallion, March 2021 (Cliff Lipson/CBS via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter The 2021 Grammy Awards are finally here.

News Watch DaBaby and Roddy Ricch Perform “ROCKSTAR” at Grammys 2021 They were joined by a choir and violin player for an extended version of the hit single  By Evan Minsker March 14, 2021 Facebook Twitter DaBaby, March 2021 (Francis Specker/CBS via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter DaBaby performed his song “ROCKSTAR” with Roddy Ricch tonight

News Grammy Nominations 2021: See the Full List of Nominees Here Find out who’s up for Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and more By Allison Hussey, Quinn Moreland, and Evan Minsker March 14, 2021 Facebook Twitter The 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards®, January 2018 (DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images) Facebook

News Watch Adrianne Lenker Perform “dragon eyes” on Fallon An intimate solo performance from home By Madison Bloom March 12, 2021 Facebook Twitter Adrianne Lenker on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, March 2021 (Adam Gundersheimer/NBC) Facebook Twitter Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief was the musical guest on last night’s episode of The Tonight Show

News 6 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Perfume Genius, Blake Mills, and More Also stream new releases from ZULI, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Central Cee, and Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter By Allison Hussey and Evan Minsker March 12, 2021 Facebook Twitter Perfume Genius, October 2020 (Adam Gundersheimer/ABC via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter With

News Posthumous Tony Allen Album There Is No End Announced Check out “Cosmosis,” featuring Skepta and co-produced by Damon Albarn By Madison Bloom March 12, 2021 Facebook Twitter Tony Allen, photo by Bernard Benant Facebook Twitter The Afrobeat legend Tony Allen died in the spring of 2020 at the age of 79. The year prior,

News Spoon Cover Tom Petty’s “Breakdown” and “A Face in the Crowd”: Watch Recorded live at the Catacomb in Austin By Evan Minsker March 12, 2021 Facebook Twitter Spoon’s Britt Daniel, photo by Oliver Halfin Facebook Twitter Noted Tom Petty fans Spoon have shared recordings of two Tom Petty covers. Their renditions of “Breakdown” (which

100 gecs’ Laura Les has shared a video for a new song called “Haunted,” a track she debuted at the A2B2 Night of Fire virtual concert. The visual is directed by Weston Allen. Check it out below. 100 gecs released their debut studio album 1000 gecs in 2019. In 2020, the duo also issued a

Phoebe Bridgers appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers on Thursday (March 11) to discuss her wild year off the back of Punisher. She also brought along a special guest: Her pug was photoshopped out of a recent Variety cover but suffered no such indignity on the show. Other topics include her slap-bass-playing neighbor and

Audiobook and podcast site Audible has announced a new slate of artists to feature on their Words + Music series. Sleater-Kinney, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Gary Clark Jr., Sting, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Yo-Yo Ma will join the current roster of musicians for the “musical storytelling” program. Sleater-Kinney’s program premieres June 17, and will find

Faith No More’s Mike Patton is the latest vocalist to perform the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song. The new rendition is in the trailer for the upcoming retro-style beat-em-up game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. If you would like to hear Patton sing about Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, Splinter, and Shredder, watch the

Pussy Riot have shared a new song called “Panic Attack” with a new music video. Helmed by director Asad J. Malik, the video was filmed on 106 cameras for an immersive AR experience rendered through a video game engine. Watch it below. The new song arrives as the title track of a three-song Pussy Riot

It’s a Wu-Tang family battle: Raekwon and Ghostface Killah have been announced as the next VERZUZ opponents. “Steel sharpen Steel,” Raekwon wrote. It happens on March 20 at 8 p.m. Eastern. It can be viewed the VERZUZ Instagram account or via the Triller app—the new parent company of VERZUZ.  After closing out its first season

Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, has died at age 94. Ottens died last Saturday, March 6, according to NRC Handelsblad. Ottens’ daughter Arine confirmed the news to WTOP. Born in 1926, Ottens first became involved with recorded music while working as head of the product development department at Dutch-based technology company

Grammy Awards season is, at last, in full swing. Delayed from its January date, the 2021 Grammy Awards take place this Sunday, March 14. As schedules are finalized, statuettes buffed, and performers prep their socially distanced stage shows, Pitchfork is here with your one-stop shop compiling everything to look out for. Keep scrolling for all

The Brooklyn-based psychedelic rock band Crumb—the quartet of Lila Ramani, Bri Aronow, Jesse Brotter, and Jonathan Gilad—have returned with a new song. “Trophy” arrives with a new music video directed by Haoyan of America and featuring animations by Truba Animation. Watch it below. The new song and video are the first taste of new music

Jimmy Fallon has a recurring segment called “Do Not Play List.” As he explains, the segment highlights “real songs from real bands that [he] think[s] you should avoid.” Fallon highlighted five tracks in his latest episode, including “Old Man on the Bridge,” the title track of King Kong’s 1991 debut, as Pitchfork contributor Marc Masters

Chika is nominated for the Best New Artist at the 2021 Grammy Awards, and, ahead of the ceremony, she’s covered a song by last year’s winner, Billie Eilish. Listen to Chika’s cover of “my future,” as well as a new version of her own song “U Should,” below. “I picked ‘my future’ by Billie Eilish

A new study from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative reveals the bleak reality for women in popular music. The report—compiled by Dr. Stacy L. Smith, Dr. Katherine Pieper, Hannah Clark, Ariana Case & Marc Choueiti—sought to “assess the gender and race/ethnicity of artists, songwriters and producers across the 800 top songs from

Following her 2020 debut, Los Angeles–based artist Helen Ballentine has announced another new Skullcrusher EP. The new release, called Storm in Summer, arrives April 9 via Secretly Canadian. The EP includes the previously released “Song for Nick Drake” and was recorded with collaborator Noah Weinman. Below, check out the new music video for the Storm

Brittany Howard has recorded a new cover of Jackie Wilson’s classic 1967 song “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher.” Penned by Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner, and Carl Smith, the the track was covered by the Alabama Shakes leader as an Amazon Original. The tracks has been an occasional feature of her live sets

Gladys Knight and Alessia Cara performed the national anthems of their respective countries at the NBA All-Star 2021 basketball game, which is being held tonight at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. Knight was present in Atlanta to sing “The Star Spangled Banner,” while Cara delivered a remote performance of “O Canada” from Toronto.

Cardi B, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, HAIM, Megan Thee Stallion, Harry Styles, Bad Bunny, DaBaby, Dua Lipa, Post Malone, and more have been announced as performers at the 2021 Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy dropped the news today (March 7), stating in a press release that “artists will be coming together, while still safely apart,

Last night on The Late Late Show With James Corden, Caroline Polachek performed her cover of the Corrs’ “Breathless.” Originally released as a bonus track on her album of Pang remixes, the cover was paired with a gothic, steamy set for the performance. Watch it go down below. Polachek released Pang in 2019. She’s since

Back in 2016, it was revealed that actor Joe Manganiello had gotten Morrissey’s approval to make his Smiths-inspired film Shoplifters of the World. Many years later, the film’s official trailer has arrived. Watch that below (via Entertainment Weekly). The film, directed and written by Stephen Kijak, is based on a largely embellished story about a

Beyoncé has released a brief a capella medley of songs in memory of Lyric Chanel, a 13-year-old girl whose two-year struggle with brain cancer was documented on Instagram before she passed away on Friday, as Rolling Stone reports. The medley, set to a slideshow of photos of Chanel, includes the songs “Brown Skin Girl” (The

Mitski has shared a new song from her forthcoming soundtrack for This Is Where We Fall, a new graphic novel by writer Chris Miskiewicz and artist Vincent Kings that’s out on May 5 via Z2 Comics. It’s called “The Baddy Man”—take a listen to the country-tinged track below (via Rolling Stone). The soundtrack will be