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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

Taylor Swift has issued a statement advocating for the removal of statues depicting racist figures in her native state of Tennessee. “As a Tennessean, it makes me sick that there are monuments standing in our state that celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things,” she wrote. “Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford Forrest were DESPICABLE

Beyoncé has shared an open letter on her website to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron. She’s seeking swift justice for Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old emergency room technician who was killed in her home by Louisville police. The letter comes three months after Taylor’s death, and Beyoncé offers three specific calls to action: to bring criminal

After being arrested last month for felony domestic violence, the case against Faith Evans has been dropped, TMZ reports. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office claimed the case was dropped after Evans’ husband, producer Stevie J, declined to testify against Evans. Police previously claimed that when they arrived to Evans and Stevie J’s home,

Bettye LaVette has recorded a new version of “Strange Fruit,” the Abel Meeropol song that was made famous by Billie Holiday. Her rendition appears on her forthcoming album Blackbirds, which arrives August 28. Take a listen to it below. Blackbirds will mark LaVette’s second album for Verve, and follows 2018’s Things Have Changed, on which

T-Pain has shared a new song called “Get Up.” The artist released the single in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. “Get Up” was co-produced by T-pain, LevyGrey, and 11VN, and it opens with an excerpt from a Malcolm X speech. Proceeds from the single’s streaming revenues and merchandise will go to Crime Survivors