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Amelia Dimoldenberg has announced the final series of her long-running, algorithm-conquering interview series Chicken Shop Date. The deadpan host welcomed the likes of Paul McCartney, Billie Eilish, Dave, and Sabrina Carpenter across a 12-year run, posing acerbic, flirty, and fearless questions that used spontaneity and awkwardness to jolt guests off script. The decision to wind

Last week, Miley Cyrus announced plans to drop a new album, Bass Persuades, under the newly-adopted mononym Miley. Today, she returned with the first preview of the record, a pop-meets-post-punk title track accompanied by a video heavily inspired by leather culture. Watch the Mert Alas-directed video for “Bass Persuades” below. Bass Persuades follows Miley’s 2025

As they prepare to release the A. G. Cook-produced ZIRP! next month, Diiv have shared a new song, “Kid,” with a video from Jaxon Whittington. The director enlisted a couple of little pals to film the short: Diiv frontperson Zachary Cole Smith’s son Roy and his friend Julian. Watch the charming video below. The band’s

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has shared the first trailer for No One’s Disciple, a documentary about late Rush drummer Neil Peart. Peart’s bandmates, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, both get talking heads, as do a couple of his drummer peers: Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith and the Police’s Stewart Copeland. “After Neil passed away,

Four days after Say Anything’s Max Bemis cancelled a series of acoustic performances amid allegations he sent inappropriate messages to underage fans, Wavves’ Nathan Williams has weighed in on the status of the duo’s upcoming collab album, Cherry Soda. “Going back into the studio on Monday and I will finish this as a proper wavves

Djrum has barely taken a breath since returning in spectacular fashion with the EP Meaning’s Edge in late 2024. Within two years, the British producer has released the stellar Under Tangled Silence, various remixes, and, just last month, another EP, I Wander. Now, he is completing the cycle with a DJ-Kicks mix, set for release

Say Anything’s Max Bemis has postponed a series of upcoming acoustic performances amid allegations that he sent inappropriate messages to underage fans. On August 29, Say Anything announced on Instagram that Bemis would take a step back “due to the need to prioritize his mental health and personal well-being.” Accusations of inappropriate behavior by Bemis

Jason Isbell and several other artists are suing the AI platform Suno for allegedly generating music based on their names without permission, reports The Wall Street Journal. The 400 Unit frontman filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Boston, alongside artists Guy Forsyth, Eduardo Calle, and Camper Van Beethoven’s David Lowery. “Jason Isbell’s musical

Miley Cyrus—now just Miley, at least professionally—has a new album on the way. Bass Persuades (say that five times fast) lands September 18 via Atlantic, only a year and change after Cyrus’ last record, Something Beautiful. Check out the cover below. On social media, Cyrus wrote: “Music takes hold of us. We feel it, sing

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

A Las Vegas jury has found Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, guilty of arranging the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before delivering the verdict. The case originates in May 1996 when Davis’ nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, allegedly assaulted Trevon “Tray” Lane, an associate of Death Row

Skaiwater is following the March release of Wonderful with a surprise second album of the year. The previously unannounced Femme Fatale, which a press release notes was “inspired by Young Thug,” includes one guest spot (Sophie Gray on “Sophia”) and is available to stream now. “If creation began with attraction (energy pulling energy), lust, seduction,

Young Thug has dropped the third installment of Slime Language—his Young Stoner Life label compilation series. Future, Veeze, and Travis Scott all appear on the project, which is split into two “sides,” each with their own cover art. Rounding out the guest list are Cash Cobain, Lil Babt, Tezzus, diamond*, Pz’, Sk8star, Yeat, and many

On Saturday, August 30, the inaugural edition of Olivia Rodrigo’s Lilith Fair-inspired music festival Daisy Chain Fields brought a boatload of generational female talent to Irvine, California. Rodrigo headlined the event and had plenty of surprises in store for the crowd, among them a performance of “Landslide” with Stevie Nicks. Watch it below. After Rodrigo

Dinosaur Jr. are hitting the road next year. Just a few days after kicking off a fall tour in support of their first new album in five years, There Near, J Mascis and co. extended the North American run into 2027. Next year’s dates will run from February through March, and feature support from Los

Never Enough: Versions is not a collection of Turnstile cover songs or remixes. The Baltimore experimental hardcore band is adamant that it’s a “reimagined album” of songs from last year’s Grammy-winning full-length Never Enough. What’s the difference? For starters, there’s more collaborators than there are songs on the original tracklist, and the list is as

Floating Points has released Mere Mortals, his score to a ballet of the same name, which gets its European premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival tonight (August 28). The San Francisco Ballet production, which debuted in 2024, retells the myth of Pandora, who opened the box that unleashed humanity’s evil into the world. But, says,

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore have lined up their second collaborative album of the year: a score for Threshold, a documentary about Olympic cross-country skier Jessie Diggins made by the American directors Lars and Torsten Brinkema. With the announcement come three songs: “Cold Open,” “Sick and Tired,” and “Gallivare 10km.” Listen to them below ahead

Ice Spice and Lil Yachty have a new song together, “Out My Face (My Baby).” Both the track and its accompanying video, directed by AMD and Yachty himself, are split into two halves. The clip’s first act stages Ice Spice in a variety of lightly surreal tableaus—a boardwalk face-in-the-hole board, surrounded by masks of her

Mac DeMarco fans awoke to a surprise on Friday: four new albums from the singer-songwriter. Well, they’re sort of new—some fans have already heard Dog on the Rock, Seven Off the Two, Seaplane Dog, and The View From Tian Tian, after being handed copies of them on CD-Rs during DeMarco’s most recent tour. The releases,

“Shane MacGowan was full of contradictions—and that’s where the truth of him lived,” writes the Edge in a statement introducing U2’s new cover of the Pogues’ “Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah.” The track is the latest offering from the upcoming tribute album 20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan, out November 13 via Rubyworks.

AZ Chike and Tyler, the Creator have dropped a new song together, “Look Like My Mama,” along with its music video. The cinematic clip, directed by Stacking Memories, opens at “NRFTW High School.” There, taped across lockers that look suspiciously like the ones in Napoleon Dynamite, are flyers that read “NO REST FOR THE WICKED”—the

Straight off the release of new album Punching the Clown, Lambchop have shared a deadpan comedy short, Joke Country, depicting a fictional radio interview. Steve Marsh plays the host interviewing Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner, portrayed by Henry Phillips, who led the cast of a 2009 film also called Punching the Clown. The 10-minute short, directed by

David Byrne is once again adding to his decades-long concert-film legacy with the upcoming Who Is the Sky? Helmed by The Brutalist writer-director Brady Corbet, the forthcoming project, a follow-up to 2023’s Spike Lee-shot American Utopia, was filmed over multiple nights in Byrne’s hometown of Baltimore during his most recent tour. Release details will be

The Hive already knew they were getting a 20th anniversary deluxe edition of Beyoncé’s 2006 sophomore album B’Day on September 4. Now, the pop star has revealed what it will entail. The expanded four-LP physical release—pressed on 180-gram “Bayou Blue” vinyl—features the original album, the previously released “Morning Dew (Donk),” Spanish-language recordings, a 60-page commemorative

Ravyn Lenae has postponed her upcoming North American tour for undisclosed reasons. The R&B singer was set to hit the road this September and October in support of her latest album, Blue Island. “After talking with my team, I’ve made the difficult decision to postpone touring this fall,” Lenae wrote in an Instagram Story viewed

William Basinski has returned to solo piano composition for his first album since 2022’s Janek Schaefer collaboration …On Reflection and first solo LP in six years. Passing the Cup of Sorrows consists of a single 40-minute work, part of which, titled “Passing the Cup of Sorrows 1.1,” is excerpted below. The album arrives October 23.

Dolly Parton has died at 80 after a brief battle with cancer. Parton’s nephew, Bryan Seaver, announced the death on social media. “Dolly opened the door for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians, and dreamers from every walk of life and across every continent,” he said. “From her example, we believed that anything was possible.” Parton’s

Dolly Parton died today at the age of 80. Tributes have already begun to pour in from musicians and celebrities who considered the country legend an idol, a mentor, and, in some cases, a collaborator. “So glad she’s with her Carl Dean,” Kacey Musgraves wrote on X. “No one talk to me today.” Reba McEntire

Philadelphia indie rock band 2nd Grade have an album on the way. Girls and Boys is out October 30 via Lame-O Records. The record includes the previously released “Cellophane Girls” and a new single, “Anywhere Girls,” out today. Listen to that below. The 20-track album is split into 10 songs about “girls” and 10 about