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The dog days of summer may be fast approaching, but festival season is still in full swing. Outside Lands returning to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park this weekend (August 7-9), for its first edition since the death of co-founder Jonathan Mayers last year. The lineup includes headliners Charli XCX, the Strokes, and Rüfüs Du Sol,

Sleep has more in store than an upcoming tour and comic book. The stoner doom-metal gods are set to drop Hempispheres (get it?) on October 30 via Third Man. The follow-up to 2018’s The Sciences marks the band’s first with its new lineup of Bubba Dupree and Dale Crover, who join longtime frontman Al Cisneros.

When Kanye West released Vultures 2, his second collaborative LP with Ty Dolla $ign, in 2024, he quickly drew accusations of using AI to deepfake his own voice. Now, a lawsuit filed by a producer who claims to have worked on the album appears to corroborate those rumors. According to a new Rolling Stone report,

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

Three weeks after teasing the follow-up to 2024’s Blue Lips, TDE rapper and noted golf fanatic Schoolboy Q has announced a brief 10-year anniversary tour of his 2016 record Blank Face LP. The trip kicks off this October in Atlanta, includes two hometown shows in Los Angeles, and wraps things up in Las Vegas. Check

New Radicals, the legendary one-hit-wonders whose frontman, Gregg Alexander, went on to write “Murder on the Dancefloor,” are back with their first original song in nearly three decades. The bucket-hatted bandleader wrote “One Night Only (Break Loose Break Free!)” for the soundtrack to One Night Only, a rom-com starring Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner that

Ariana Grande is “taking a step back from visibility” after she completes the Eternal Sunshine Tour in one month, a representative for the artist told People. As such, the Petal singer will no longer appear in the West End revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1984 musical Sunday in the Park With George alongside

In March, Bay Area rap crew SOBxRBE played their first show in seven years. Now Yhung T.O., DaBoii, and Slimmy B have reunited for their first new music in just as long. “Ten Summers” is about “coming back together on our own terms and showing that you can move beyond things that once felt impossible

Remi Wolf is back with her first song in two years, following Big Ideas. She debuted “Twiggy” live last weekend during a surprise appearance at Hayley Williams’ headlining set at Newport Folk Festival. Check out the recorded version of the song below. “Twiggy” pairs a warm, finger-picked guitar arrangement with lyrics about a close and

If you thought Justin Long digging his own grave in the music video for “Hate That I Made You Love Me” was intense, wait until you see Ariana Grande’s latest visual for Petal’s title track. Once again directed by Christian Breslauer, the seven-minute short film opens with a parental advisory warning before Grande makes her

Following his public apology over sending inappropriate messages to an underage fan, guitarist Simon O’Connor has been dropped from Modest Mouse’s upcoming tour dates. According to a post made on the band’s Instagram, he has been replaced by Seth Jabour of Les Savy Fav. Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Modest Mouse for further

When Shearwater singer Jonathan Meiburg isn’t making music with his Texas band, you can find him researching the life forms of the ocean floor in Antarctica. It may sound like quite the balancing act, but Meiburg’s scientific work fits neatly into their expansive, meditative new album. Laden with Meiburg’s field recordings, The New World traverses

Jam City, aka UK producer Jack Latham, will return on September 23 with his Mad Decent debut, My World. Leading the follow-up to 2023’s Jam City Presents EFM is the title track, a queasy R&B tune featuring Aidan, Bawo, and Ox Eye. Listen to that below. “I just went deeper and deeper into my own

Linda Perhacs has been found safely after her friends and manager launched a public effort to locate her this week. Her manager, Laurel Stearns, said in a statement to Rolling Stone, “We extend our sincere thanks to everyone who helped amplify this effort by sharing information, reaching out with support, and expressing genuine care for

Ear have lined up a smattering of North American tour dates behind Rumspringa, their recent A24 Music debut. The New York-based IDM-pop duo will play headlining shows in Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, and Chicago throughout the month of September—plus a hometown gig at a helipad on the East River. Support at different dates will come from

BTS have withdrawn their music from the 69th annual Grammy Awards. The seven-member K-pop group—RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, V, Jungkook, Jimin—all shared the same statement on their personal Instagram Stories on Wednesday, noting that they “have decided not to submit for Grammy consideration this year.” “We hope our music can be heard and loved for

In one of those team-ups so obvious it feels like it already happened, EDM Power Rangers Ninajirachi and Porter Robinson have collaborated on a new joint single. Titled after a global cyberattack that took place in 2017, “WannaCry” has been, according to press materials, many years in the making; the first concert Ninajirachi ever attended

Linda Perhacs, the folk singer-songwriter who found cult fame decades after the release of her 1970 debut, Parallelograms, has been reported missing. A group of her friends and longtime collaborators—including former manager Laurel Stearns, Julia Holter, and DubLab co-founder Mark “Frosty” McNeill—have shared a statement online in hopes of finding the 82-year-old musician after last

The independent Bazooka! Fest is returning to Brooklyn next month, with Destroyer’s Dan Bejar set to headline alongside previously announced performers Stephin Merritt, Joanna Sternberg, Times New Viking, and Sad13. Check out the full lineup below. This year’s edition takes place on August 22 and 23 at the Meadows and the Wood Shop. Founded by

Faith No More have reunited—for real this time, apparently. After a series of ill-omened interviews, Mike Patton and the band have lined up four stadium shows Down Under with System of a Down, their first live dates since 2016. Check out the full itinerary below. Faith No More have been reliably unpredictable since Patton joined

A Brooklyn street has a new name courtesy of one of the city’s most esteemed rappers: Wu-Tang Clan’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard. During a ceremony held today (July 26) with the late MCs friends, family, and a group of local officials, Putnam Avenue in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood was co-named ODB Jones Way in honor of the

There’s a new horse in Orville Peck’s stable. After releasing the 2020 EP Show Pony and the 2022 album Bronco, he’s back with Mule, which arrives on September 18 via Warner. He teased the album with the Emmylou Harris, Noah Cyrus, and Allison Russell-featuring “Prologue (Eulogy of a Man Turned Mule)” earlier this month, and

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 releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Charli XCX, the Strokes, Tyla, and more. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday

Hole’s first three albums—Pretty on the Inside, Live Through This, and Celebrity Skin—are being repressed in various vinyl styles for release on September 18. Pretty on the Inside comes with a remastered 12-inch of the single “Teenage Whore,” backed by B-sides “Burn Black” and “Drown Soda,” which will also make their streaming debut upon the

Ministry are calling it a day. Al Jourgensen has followed through on his long-promised announcement of a final album from the industrial metal outfit—Hate to Go (Take Out or Delivery)—saying in a statement that he is “fucking done.” A series of farewell shows will begin in the coming months; check out the initial European run,

Worldpeace DMT have released a new mixtape, Flowers Powers, in tandem with the announcement of their formal follow-up to The Velvet Underground & Rowan. The mixtape includes recent single “Lonesome” and a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi.” Listen to the whole thing below. The album, Stick Around for Tea, is coming in October.

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

This fall, Mubi will release Pulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?, a 90-minute film narrated by the band’s own Jarvis Cocker. Directed by their longtime collaborator Garth Jennings, the feature combines footage from their arena tour behind last year’s reunion album, More, with archival film tracing the band’s rise from tenacious Sheffield also-rans

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

As they prepare to tour North America in September, Militarie Gun have announced an expansion of God Save the Gun. Originally released last October, the LP will now come with three additional songs. One of them, “World’s Always Burning,” features Mannequin Pussy’s Marisa Dabice; check it out below. God Save the Gun (Deluxe) arrives August