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Smirk, the power-pop-meets-punk-rock brainchild of Portland musician Nick Vicario, has a knack for turning tropes inside out. On his latest effort, Speculative Fiction, he reinvents suburban anhedonia with an unexpectedly meticulous, pop-forward sensibility. With help from friends like Ceremony’s Ross Farrar, Advertisement’s Ryan Mangione-Smith, and members of the Hotline TNT crew (who play in Smirk’s

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Margo Price is celebrating July 4 weekend in typically righteous fashion, surprise releasing a protest album—or mixtape, per a press release—comprising a series of covers and a few originals. Among them are a new recording of her cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos),” now featuring Joan Baez and Memphis Mariachi. Watch

Rico Nasty has reunited with producer Kenny Beats, who is now calling himself Kenneth Blume, for her new album, RX. It’s out July 24. Lead single “Cupcake” marks a return to Rico’s signature “sugar trap” sound following her 2025 rap-rock LP Lethal. Below, watch her joyride in an off-roader in the song’s Miggy-directed video. “I

Jorja Smith has set a release date for her third album. What Are The Odds lands on FAMM on August 21, and Smith previewed it today with a new song with Wizkid, “Alive.” A music video, which follows the singers as they dance, sweat, and flirt their way through a Paris summer night. Watch it

You can now add Walton Goggins to the busy (and occasionally contentious) rollout for the Strokes’ forthcoming album Reality Awaits. The White Lotus and Fallout actor appears alongside Julian Casablancas and a collection of dancing clowns in the Johann Rashid-directed music video for the band’s single “Going Shopping.” As many astute Strokes fans have pointed

Djrum has a new EP on the way. I Wander, the British producer’s follow-up to Under Tangled Silence, is due August 14, via Houndstooth. The record, says Felix Manuel in a press release, “can be digested in bitesize chunks, or taken as a whole. Each track tells a different story on their own, but taken

Victor Willis, who co-founded the Village People and co-wrote their biggest hits, died Tuesday, June 30, after a “short but aggressive illness,” according to a post on the singer’s and the Village People’s Facebook pages. His wife posted a similar statement on the singer’s own Facebook page. Willis was 74 years old. Formed in 1977, the

Catalan composer and experimental musician Marina Herlop is readying a new album, Dja Dja. Herlop will self-release her follow-up to 2023’s Nekkuja on October 9. Below, listen to a new song from the record, “Jaque.” According to press materials, Dja Dja was inspired by the “the hero’s journey,” the narrative framework popularized by Joseph Campbell

Bluegrass virtuoso Billy Strings has announced So Much for Goodbyes, his fifth studio album, out August 28 on Reprise. The project is dedicated to his late mother, Debra Apostol, whose artwork graces its cover. You can listen to lead single “Burn the Other End” and check out Apostol’s piece below. “I made this record to

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Just as they’ve pushed the boundaries of what can reasonably be called an LP, YHWH Nailgun are now testing the limits on visual albums, too. The New York experimental rockers have shared a music video set to Magazine, their new 11-minute, 10 track album. Directed by Lane Stewart, the nocturnal short follows several mysterious characters

Longtime friends Ela Minus and Nick León are joining up for a new collaborative, three-song EP. The Colombian electronic musician and the Brooklyn-based producer will release Qué Les Pasó a Mis Amigos? on August 7 via Domino, but they’re sharing its lead single “Espiral” today. Give it a listen below. Qué Les Pasó a Mis

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

Agriculture have announced a stateside trek. In the fall, the black metal band will tour their second album, 2025’s The Spiritual Sound, primarily on the West Coast, but will travel to the Midwest to play a short run of shows in November. Throughout the month-long sprint, the Los Angeles quartet will be joined by Brooklyn

On Friday (June 26), Lorde celebrated the one-year anniversary of Virgin by unveiling 49 demos from the album’s recording sessions and wrote a long, behind-the-scenes newsletter to her fans. Among the archived material uploaded to the pop star’s website are photographs, notes, artwork ideas, and the aforementioned tracks, which she calls “skeletons” of what would

Ms. Lauryn Hill received the inaugural Living Legend Icon Award at the BET Awards 2026 tonight. To celebrate her big moment at the awards ceremony, a number of musicians paid tribute to the Fugees member—including SZA, Doechii, Nas, Doja Cat, Queen Latifah, Tems, Lizzo, Rapsody, Tierra Whack, and more—before Hill ended up performing one of

Erykah Badu is going on tour in September. She’ll be joined by the Alchemist for the whole North American trek. Select shows will also feature De La Soul, Smino, and “additional special guests,” according to a press release. See Erykah Badu’s full itinerary below. Last year, Badu and the Alchemist teamed up for a joint

During a recent press event announcing the new Rolling Stones album, Mick Jagger recounted the unexpected recruiting he did one day in the studio. “There’s this bloke standing there with his back to me with this long gown on,” Jagger said. “And when he turned around, he was covered in lipstick. And I said—I’d never

The Phoebe Bridgers news cycle continues apace. After yesterday’s announcement of Lost Weekend, her first solo album in six years, Bridgers has unveiled “Lost Boys,” its lead single and her first solo song in four. In the Lance Oppenheim and Pablo Rochat-directed music video, she plays an elf surrounded by knights in a Renaissance-style video

After teasing a studio collaboration together several months ago, Steve Lacy has finally shared the new song he recorded with SZA. “Is It Cool?” is a back-and-forth track between the two singers where they delve into their struggles with romance and tendencies to self-sabotage. Give it a listen below. SZA first spoke of the existence

Harmony Tividad is done with the intentional brain-rot pop of Gossip, at least for now. The former Girlpool member picks back up the acoustic guitar and, with it, her natural instincts for indie-pop earworms. Broadly recounting an endless cycle of becoming in the modern world, Lifetime is a detailed and thoughtful reflection that takes note

Heavens to Betsy, the punk duo of Corin Tucker and Tracy Sawyer whose 1994 split led to the formation of Sleater-Kinney, will tour this fall for the first time since the breakup. After launching the reunion with a surprise show in Portland, Oregon, last night, Tucker and Sawyer have lined up an itinerary that includes

Carly Rae Jepsen’s lead single from her forthcoming double LP has arrived. The pop-rockish “On Wires” is the first offering from the 24-track Day and Night. Check out the Caio Vieira-drected music video for it below. In a new interview with NME, Jepsen spoke of the single’s origins as a “come hither” track, before needing

Empress Of has announced new album Dream House, the follow-up to 2024’s For Your Consideration. Out Sept 18 via Giant Music, the record reflects on life after the Altadena fires that destroyed Lorely Rodriguez’s home—a topic explored on the single “Wild Storm,” released today with a Mitch deQuilettes-directed video shot in the aftermath. Rodriguez will

With an hour’s notice and a bat of her eyelashes, Charli XCX ushered in her third single from Music, Fashion, Film: “Wink Wink.” The new song gets a music video directed by Aidan Zamiri, in which the pop star swears she’s “not a bad girl anymore” while eating strawberries in a field, washing window panes,

A Jay-Z documentary series is coming to HBO in the fall. Jaÿ-Z in 8 follows a simple premise: eight episodes of conversation between the rapper and Rick Rubin, who also directed the series. “Without the pain you wouldn’t have done the work,” Rubin says in the new teaser trailer, to which Jay-Z responds: “So the

Navy Blue questioned who he is and how his past selves have informed that identity on Sir Render, his album that dropped earlier in June. Now he’s bringing that sentiment to life in a new music video for the title track. In it, a preteen discovers a suit of armor made out of boxes and

beabadoobee has announced the follow-up to 2024’s This Is How Tomorrow Moves. Titled Pylon, the album arrives via Dirty Hit on September 18. The singer-songwriter has also shared a video for the record’s first single, “Sun Has Set,” which offers a first-person POV of beabadoobee beating someone up—until she suddenly gets sleepy and takes a

Philadelphia psych-folk duo and frontrunners for most “un-Googleable band name” @ (pronounced like “at”) have signed to 4AD for their sophomore album. Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak will release Autosmile on October 16 via the storied British label. As a lead single, they’ve shared the LP’s title track alongside a stripped-down performance video. Watch it