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Olivia Rodrigo just dropped her new song “The Cure.” (No, not that the Cure—though Rodrigo and Robert Smith did sing “Just Like Heaven” together at Glastonbury last year.) The single is accompanied by a music video directed by Cat Solen and Jamie Gerin, which casts Rodrigo as a midcentury nurse saving hearts—well, attempting to—at a

For Veeze fans patiently waiting on the follow-up to 2023’s acclaimed Ganger, you can now bide your time with the Detroit rapper’s surprise new mixtape Y’all Won, along with a video for the single “Wrong Place, Wrong Time,” featuring cameos from Playboi Carti and Lil Baby. Check it all out below. In the years since

Philipp Jung, the German DJ and producer behind the electronic duo M.A.N.D.Y. and the influential Get Physical label, has died. The British DJ Damian Lazarus, a onetime Get Physical signee, shared the news on May 20, giving Jung’s age as 55. Jung’s personal Facebook page and his labels’ Instagrams have since posted their own tributes.

From kissa bars to city pop, Western fascination with Japanese musical tradition is a well-worn trope at this point. But Portland ambient duo Visible Cloaks have set themselves apart from the trend-chasing masses through their genuinely meaningful contributions to Japanese genre kankyō ongaku, or “environmental music.” Last year, Spencer Doran, who makes up the group

DJ Koze’s first song of the year is here. His latest conjury of club mesmerism, the seven-minute “Spiralen,” is the front half of a AA-side single coming on June 12, via his Pampa label. That’ll be backed by another long song, promisingly titled “Wo’s Patric?!?” Find the “Spiralen” video below and the single art beneath

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is readying a new album. The composer and synthesist will release Ruin: It’s Not Just Music on October 2 through Someone Special, a label she co-founded this year with James Daniel. Below, listen to a title track of sorts, “Ruin,” via a video starring a pole-dancing Pedro Esteveaqui. In a press release,

Less than a month after dropping his first solo single ever, Mike D is already back with another new song. The Beastie Boy recorded “What We Got” during the same sessions as “Switch Up,” and was joined in the studio by producer Carter Lang as well as his sons, Davis and Skyler Diamond. Listen below.

Charli XCX is back with a new song “SS26.” It arrives alongside a visual from “Von Dutch” director Torso, which places Charli in the glamorous chaos of a major fashion show. She rocks a variety of looks on and off the runway and even recovers from a catwalk stumble straight out of Sex and the

It’s only been three years since Feeble Little Horse last released an album—2023’s excellent, blown-out Girl With Fish—but between the canceled tour, a standalone single, and sporadic activity online since then, it feels like the wait has been far longer. Alas, that ends very soon; Feeble Little Horse have announced their new album, Bitknot, is

After a 10-year wait, Ariana Grande has officially premiered fan favorite “Knew Better Part Two.” The song, an extended version of Dangerous Woman’s “Knew Better,” now appears as a bonus track on the just-released Dangerous Woman (Tenth Anniversary Edition). The single was originally a SoundCloud exclusive that dropped a few months after the album’s 2016

Where else but Portland? Last night (May 20), Kevin Morby played the Oregon capitol’s Revolution Hall, where he was joined onstage by a certified local hero: Portlandia star and Sleater-Kinney founder Carrie Brownstein. Together, they performed the band’s 2005 classic “Modern Girl,” a track so essential within Sleater-Kinney’s enduring catalog Brownstein named her 2015 memoir

Loukeman is celebrating the recent end of his SD album trilogy with a tour spanning both sides of the Atlantic. Although the trek launches in the United Kingdom in June, the majority takes place this fall. The producer, real name Luke Fenton, will travel to Chicago, Brooklyn, Paris, and Berlin in his travels during sweater

Arab Strap are back, and in typically caustic form. The Scottish duo of Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat will return with Half-Told Tales on September 4, via Rock Action. The song that accompanies the news, “You You You,” comes with a fun video directed by Luke Bovill. Watch it below. Half-Told Tales marks the duo’s

The first teaser trailer for Live Nation’s Rolling Loud movie is here. If this is the first you’re hearing of a Rolling Loud movie, Owen Wilson stars in it as a “by-the-book dad trying way too hard to be a cool dad” (this is a direct quote from the promotional copy) who soon loses his

A posthumous album by the late cult folk singer and visual artist Ed Askew is being released on Drag City. Out July 31, The Final Painting features contributions from, among others, Bill Callahan and William Tyler; Sharon Van Etten sings backing vocals on the single “Gray Air-o-Plane.” Below, watch a video that sets the song

Chrome Hearts, the fashion brand that shares a name with Neil Young’s current backing group, has voluntarily dropped its trademark-infringement lawsuit against the band, Billboard reports. The complaint, filed last September, argued that Chrome Hearts LLC had owned the rights to the name since 1991, decades before Young debuted the lineup, in 2024. Young’s band—featuring

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

All Things Go Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 2026 edition. Lola Young, Hayley Williams, Mitski, and Brandi Carlile will headline the three-day music festival at Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, with Ethel Cain, Zara Larsson, and Muna rounding out the bill. It takes place from September 25 to 27. That same weekend, the New

The Avalanches have returned with their first new single in six years. “Together” features Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza, and Prentiss, an 18-year-old artist and producer based in Jackson, Missouri. An anthropomorphic iPod and floppy disk are the stars of the song’s accompanying visualizer, which was directed and animated by frequent collaborator Jonathan Zawada. Check it

The Smashing Pumpkins have detailed an extensive run of concerts they’re calling The Rats in a Cage Tour. Each show on this fall leg will feature “two unique sets” celebrating Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ recent 30th anniversary, as well as other “unruly hits and dark treasures.” Find their complete list of tour dates

Sir Paul McCartney was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on May 16, taking on the slot for the first time since 2012 to ring in the show’s Season 51 finale. The 83-year-old artist performed opposite host Will Ferrell, playing his new song “Days We Left Behind” and a Wings classic, “Band on the

Drake is back with his first solo album since 2023’s For All the Dogs… and his second, and his third. After months of teasing a new LP, Iceman, he revealed on a live stream that he had two more albums dropping last night, Habibti and Maid of Honour. All three arrived on schedule. He has

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new drops available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Kevin Morby, Drake, Smerz, and Jeff Parker. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday

Nick Valensi, one of the original guitarists in the Strokes, is dropping out for an unspecified portion of the band’s upcoming performances. “Nick will be taking a temporary break from the scheduled tour, but we look forward to his return,” reads a message posted to the Strokes’ Instagram story and viewed by Pitchfork. Valensi will

Two months after Swedish rapper/enigma Bladee dropped a pair of singles, he’s back with a new song called “Blondie” and an album announcement. Produced by fellow Drain Gang member Whitearmor, Sulfur Surfer arrives May 20 on Trash Island. A tracklist hasn’t been revealed, but one song is confirmed to feature David Tibet’s long-running doom folk

Twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz are back with their first Ibeyi album in four years. Offering, the follow-up to 2022’s Spell 31, is out June 26. Unlike the duo’s first three albums, which were released on XL, Offering will premiere independently, on the sisters’ own label, IBEYI Records. You can check out the lead single,

Note: This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual assault. Jermaine Jackson, a Jackson 5 co-founder and older brother of Michael Jackson, has been ordered to pay Rita Barrett $6.5 million in damages after failing to respond to a rape lawsuit she filed in 2023, TMZ reports and court records confirm. Barrett alleged in the lawsuit

Seemingly discontented with only one album dropping on May 15, Drake unveiled three new LPs at the same time: Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour. Features across the trio include Future, Molly Santana, Sexyy Red, Loe Shimmy, and 21 Savage, with beats coming from Ovrkast, Riot, Boi-1da, DJ Frisco954, and more. Drake first revealed he’d

Lady Gaga has released a new live project, Mayhem Requiem, via Apple Music. The album, which was recorded during a no-phones-allowed show at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre in January, “reimagines” her 2025 album Mayhem with new arrangements. It also arrives with a concert film that will show at one-night-only screenings in select AMC theaters tonight