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Note: This article contains descriptions of alleged assault. Today’s episode of the N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN-hosted Revolt podcast Drink Champs featured multiple guests discussing the Black Lives Matter movement. One of those guests was Russell Simmons, who faces multiple allegations of sexual assault. Following the episode’s release, TIDAL—which promoted Simmons’ interview on social media, presumably

This Heat will release their discography digitally for the first time. The titles include the British experimental rock band’s two studio albums (1979’s This Heat and 1981’s Deceit), the 1980 Health and Efficiency EP, and a series of live albums (Repeat and Metal, Made Available, and Live 80/81). The records will come to streaming on

Bright Eyes’ return continued last night with a performance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The band performed “Mariana Trench” from their just-announced new album Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was. Watch it happen below. The new album is out August 21 via Dead Oceans. It features the previously shared songs

Sacramento rapper Bris was shot dead on June 21, Sacramento County Coroner records confirm. He was 24. According to Sacramento Police, officers responded to a report of shots fired on June 21 at approximately 12:42 a.m. near Franklin Boulevard and Fruitridge Road. Upon arrival at the scene, officers located the rapper, born Christopher Treadwell, who

Sudan Archives performed a set for NPR’s “Tiny Desk” series. Filmed in March, the performance featured “Confessions” and “Glorious” from her 2019 album Athena and “Nont for Sale” from 2018’s Sink EP. Sudan Archives played the set accompanied by violinist Jessica McJunkins, violist Dominic Johnson, and cellist Khari Joyner. Check it out below. Read Pitchfork’s

Global Citizen and the European Commission have announced an upcoming televised concert titled “Global Goal: Unite for Our Future.” The virtual event will take place June 27, and feature performances by Quavo, Christine and the Queens, J Balvin, Usher, Coldplay, Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus, Shakira, and more. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will host. According to

Hamilton Leithauser and his family recorded a remote edition of NPR’s ongoing “Tiny Desk Concert” series. Leithauser is accompanied by his wife, daughters, nieces, and father as he performs tracks from his last two albums. Watch their performance of “In a Black Out,” “The Garbage Men,” “Here They Come,” “The Stars of Tomorrow,” and “Isabella”

On Thursday, Noname released her new single, “Song 33.” It was widely speculated that Noname was responding to J. Cole’s song “Snow on Tha Bluff.” “He really ’bout to write about me while the world is in smokes,” she rapped on the new song. “When his people in trees, when George was begging for his

Last week, Tunde Adebimpe of TV On the Radio released a new song called “People.” You can listen to it via Bandcamp below and purchase it here. Proceeds from the track will be divided between three beneficiaries: the ACLU, the Movement for Black Lives, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Adebimpe recently made an appearance

The estate of Tom Petty has issued a cease and desist to Donald Trump’s presidential re-election campaign. The campaign used Petty’s song “I Won’t Back Down” at a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma held Saturday night (June 20). In a statement posted after the rally, Petty’s family wrote that they had issued an official cease and

Thurston Moore has announced a new album that’s due in the fall. It’s called By the Fire, and it’s out September 25 on his Daydream Library Series label. He’s shared a song from the record, “Hashish,” which you can hear below. My Bloody Valentine’s Deb Googe contributed bass and backing vocals to By the Fire,

Beyoncé has dropped a new song called “Black Parade.” She released the song on Juneteenth (June 19), a day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Hear it below. Along with the track, Beyoncé unrolled an online directory that spotlights Black-owned artists and other businesses through her BeyGOOD charitable foundation. Proceeds from the

One of popular music’s most positive songs, “I Can See Clearly Now” has been covered by several artists since the original No. 1 recording by Johnny Nash in 1972. The latest band to show the song some love and shower the listener with awesomeness is The Side Deal, comprised of founding members of Train, Sugar

City Girls have shared a new song and announced a new album called City on Lock that’s coming later tonight. Watch the video for “Jobs” and check out the tracklist to City on Lock below. City on Lock arrives nearly two years after the duo’s breakout albums Period and G I R L C O

On May 26, the day after George Floyd was killed, 12-year-old Keedron Bryant shared a powerful video where he sang a cappella, “I’m a young Black man/Doing all that I can/To stand.” The song’s lyrics were written by Keedron’s mother Johnetta Bryant. Sharing the video, Bryant wrote, “Just singing what’s on my heart… hope this

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Earlier this year, Mobb Deep’s classic 1995 album The Infamous got a 25th anniversary reissue. In the latest episode of Song Exploder—the podcast where artists go through every detail in the creation of a song—Havoc discussed their iconic song “Shook Ones, Pt. II.” Listen to the full episode, which includes a full playthrough of the

Perfume Genius has covered Mazzy Star’s iconic “Fade Into You” for Amazon Music’s new PROUD playlist. “I chose ‘Fade Into You’ because I carried it with me for a long time and I always looked to it for the warmth and the very heavy vibe that it always brings,” Perfume Genius said in a statement.

Dame Vera Lynn—the English singer who performed for troops during World War II—died Thursday morning (June 18), the BBC reports. She was 103. Her best known songs include “We’ll Meet Again,” “There’ll Be Bluebirds Over,” and “There’ll Always Be an England.” She was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire

The Brooklyn-based independent record label Ghostly International has joined Secretly. The label and its publishing arm Ghostly Songs (now administered through Secretly Publishing) join Bloomington, Indiana’s Secretly Group (Secretly Canadian, Jagjaguwar, and Dead Oceans) and Chicago’s Numero Group as Secretly affiliates. Ghostly International founder Sam Valenti IV is now a managing partner of Secretly, and

Bob Dylan is set to release his next album Rough and Rowdy Ways this week on June 19. He previously shared the tracklist, as well as the singles “Murder Most Foul,” “False Prophet,” and “I Contain Multitudes.” Now, it’s been revealed that Fiona Apple and Blake Mills were among the recording personnel on the album,

The Killers are back with the newest single from their upcoming new album Imploding the Mirage. This one’s called “My Own Soul’s Warning.” The track features and was co-produced by Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado. The new song follows “Caution” and “Fire in Bone.” Listen to it below. The Killers originally announced that Imploding the Mirage would

This Friday (June 19), Detroit rapper Tee Grizzley will release his new mixtape The Smartest. It features Big Sean, Meek Mill, Lil Baby, and Lil Keed, plus production from Hit-Boy, DJ Mustard, and Scott Storch. Check out the mixtape’s artwork and tracklist below. The mixtape includes the recently shared single “Mr. Officer,” a song that

A new biopic about the late Lemmy Kilmister is in the works, The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline report. The film, currently called Lemmy, will be directed by Greg Olliver, who also helmed the 2010 documentary Lemmy. According to the reports, the movie will focus on Lemmy’s early life, before he became the frontman of Motörhead.

Randy Newman stopped by the latest remote edition of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he performed “Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)” from his 1974 album Good Old Boys. “This is a song I wrote back in the Pleistocene era,” Newman joked. “But it’s become relevant again.” Watch Newman’s performance below.

The 2021 Oscars were originally scheduled to air on February 28, but today (June 15), it was announced that the next Academy Awards ceremony has been postponed until April 25, The Los Angeles Times reports. The news comes after multiple film eligibility rules changed for the 2021 ceremony, including the rule that films must screen

The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our