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Madison Square Garden temporarily disabled its on-site surveillance system during Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding, according to a new Wired report. The New York City venue reportedly locked security staff out of its camera network and facial recognition software for seven hours on July 2, the night of Swift and Kelce’s rehearsal dinner, and

An archival album of John Prine music, originally released in a limited run for Record Store Day 2026, is coming to streaming services on October 9, via Oh Boy. Today, “World Without Love,” one of five unreleased songs on the LP, has been unveiled. Watch a lyric video, assembled from Super 8 footage of Prine

Victoria Monét has announced a new album, Frequency of Love, out October 2 on Lovett/RCA. She also revealed one of the LP’s singles, the Kaytranada-produced “Reach Out,” which arrives with a lively music video replete with chic backup dancers vogueing the house down. Watch it below. Frequency of Love follows the release of her 2023

Nearly two months after Nina Protocol announced it was shutting down, the free, independent music platform has been acquired by SoundCloud. The agreement allows SoundCloud to inherent Nina Protocol’s editorial archive, genre map, and—if artists choose to opt into SoundCloud’s “creator ecosystem”—their music catalogues. Musicians who take SoundCloud up on that offer will reportedly “gain

M83 is readying a follow-up to 2023’s Fantasy: I Wrote You a Letter is due out September 25, via Anthony Gonzalez’s own Other Suns label. Check out the tracklist and artwork below. Gonzalez made the new record with collaborators Joe Berry, Clément Libes, and Benoit de Villeneuve, he said in a post on Instagram that

It’s been a long road for NewJeans, from the halcyon days of their chart-topping Get Up EP, to a yearslong legal dispute tied to allegations of workplace mistreatment and copyright infringement, to a failed attempt to rebrand as NJZ. The K-pop group officially announced a hiatus in 2025, and there has been little news since

Chelsea Wolfe has announced her next album, The Dark, which is set to land on Loma Vista on August 21. The record’s lead single, “Cold,” is out now, along with hauntingly beautiful visuals placing Wolfe in the foggy wilderness. Wolfe’s follow-up to 2024’s She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She was co-written with

Sylvan Esso have announced their first album in four years. Ow ∞, the follow-up to No Rules Sandy, will be the North Carolina duo’s first release on its own Psychic Hotline label, launched back in 2018. The new single “Concrete Glen” samples Sigur Rós’ Ágætis Byrjun track “Svefn-g-englar”; watch a video for that, directed by

Mike D is taking his Mike D 5D band on the road behind his forthcoming solo album Thank You. The Beastie Boys alum has added 10 new shows apiece in North America and Europe, expanding a five-show run announced last month. Check out the full itinerary below. Mike D is joined in the band by

John Glacier has released the first single off her next album, Lack of Joy is Death. “Bond Girl” takes a more upbeat approach to the East London artist’s ambient rap with flows buoyed by a clubby beat as she raps about jet-setting and talking to Vogue (a likely reference to her actual British Vogue interview

Arca is preparing to unveil her first full-length project in five years. XXXXX, which follows the Kick series that ran from 2020 to 2021, arrives next Friday, July 31, via XL. While no new music accompanies the album announcement, a livestream directed by Daniel Sannwald has been lined up for this Thursday at 3:30 p.m.

Jennifer Finch, the longtime bassist of the ’90s feminist grunge band L7, has died. Finch was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2011 and, more recently, an aggressive form of brain cancer. Her bandmates shared the news of her death on Saturday (July 18) along with a statement on Instagram, calling her a “beloved bandmate, friend,

The 2026 FIFA World Cup came to a close today (July 19) after over a month of intense gameplay. But before Spain beat out defending champion Argentina for the win with an overtime goal, another major spectacle was in order: the first-ever official World Cup Halftime Show. The inaugural event featured performances from Shakira, BTS,

While Echo and the Bunnymen have been a steady presence on the road for years, the English rockers have yet to release an album since 2014’s Meteorites. That will change on September 18 with Apples for Isaac, their first LP in 12 years. Check out the animated video for first single “Brussels Is Haunted” below.

A new festival is coming to Santa Monica, with the Killers and Olivia Dean topping the inaugural bill. Ocean Way Festival—produced by the much–reviled Coachella organizer Goldenvoice—will take place on September 26 and 27. Jack White, Khruangbin, and Sublime are also among the performers. Elsewhere on the bill are Durand Jones and the Indications, Alvvays,

Tricky may not have released an album in six years, but he has kept busy; Theis Thaws and Lonely Guest are just two aliases the trip-hop innovator has used to record new music. But, as press-release legend has it, when Tricky’s manager, Alan McGee, heard the bones of the tracks that would become Different When

Leon Bridges has announced a new, 12-track album and released precisely a third of it. Happiness Anytime, out September 25 via Columbia, is preceded today by “Light the Way,” “Tears of Joy,” “Illusion,” and “Your Love Is Electric.” Listen to all four below. Bridges’ follow-up to 2024’s Leon is produced by J Lloyd-Watson and Lydia

Bill Callahan is lending his weathered baritone to the audiobook world. The fabled Austin singer-songwriter is set to narrate Rise Above, the upcoming memoir from Matthew Schnipper. The book details how Schnipper navigated grief following the death of his nearly two-year-old son Renzo in 2021. (Full disclosure: Schnipper is a former executive editor of Pitchfork.)

Jeff Tweedy recently took a night off from Wilco’s North American tour to perform for a Jimmy Kimmel Live! episode that aired last night. Watch him do the Twilight Override single “Out in the Dark” with a five-piece band—including his sons Spencer and Sammy Tweedy—below, following an introduction by The Studio actor Ike Barinholtz. Wilco’s

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey is out in theaters today, and with it comes an original soundtrack from the indefatigable Ludwig Göransson. Closing the OST—and the film itself—is a new song from Göransson, James Blake, and Travis Scott, co-written with Nolan himself. Listen to “When I’m Home” below. Scott’s involvement in the mythological epic—mild

This post has been updated to include a statement from Spotify. Lorde would prefer to let her music speak for itself, especially when it comes to misleading AI descriptions. In an Instagram story posted on July 16, the singer expressed frustration over Spotify’s new About the Song feature, which uses AI to generate a summary

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Dave Kendall, who created and hosted the influential MTV show 120 Minutes, has died. His friend Matt Pinfield, who hosted the show after Kendall’s tenure, shared the news on Instagram. Bangkok Post, where Kendall worked from 2017 to 2025, also ran an obituary. No cause of death was given. Kendall was 63, according to Bangkok

Whoopsie-daisy! Yoo-hoo! Lana Del Rey appears to have not one, but two new albums on the way. In an Instagram post on July 15, Del Rey said that her long-forthcoming LP Stove has a companion record, which she added will be completed in a month. She also appeared to reveal album artwork for both records,

A new collection of early-career David Bowie music is coming to Parlophone on September 18. The Shel Talmy Recordings compiles songs the titular producer, known for his work with the Who and the Kinks, made with the late singer in 1965, when he was still going by Davie Jones. Among the 22 tracks are ten

Fiona Apple has written a handful of new songs lately, and her latest functions as the theme song for the new Apple TV series Lucky. “Horns of the Bull” is one-minute-and-forty seconds of pattering drums, warm piano chords, and Apple’s sing-spoken cadence that gives way to a mid-song growl. Listen to it below. Lucky is

It’s been a busy two days for Josh Homme, between his feature on the latest Mastodon single and, today, the premiere of “Easy Street,” the first new music from Queens of the Stone Age since 2023’s In Times New Roman…. The band first debuted the song during their 2025 Paris Catacombs concert. The release arrives

Toronto singer-songwriter Charlotte Cornfield is going on tour with Friendship this December. No, not the concept of camaraderie—the Philadelphia band whose latest record, Caveman Wakes Up, came out in 2025. The co-headliners will spend the last month of 2026 traversing the U.S., making stops in New York, Atlanta, Nashville, St. Louis, and more. (Requisite hometown

Jake Xerxes Fussell is readying a new album for release on September 18, via Fat Possum. The Southern folk singer-songwriter made The Old Beloved Path with producer Ben Whiteley in North Carolina. Leading the record is Fussell’s take on the folk standard “Rock Island Line.” Check that out below. Though he typically avoids such well-trodden