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Duncan Sheik, the Tony-winning composer of Broadway’s Spring Awakening and singer behind the 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” has died in Manhattan, reports the New York Times. He was 56. According to Sheik’s mother, the cause of death was cardiac arrest. Earlier this week, the musician was reported to be in critical but stable condition following

Troye Sivan has dropped his new She’s the Best single, “Party.” Built around a prominent sample of Madonna’s Y2K single “Music,” the track comes with a risqué, baroque video directed by Gordon von Steiner. Sivan plays a Medieval knight in the clip, which also features a voiceover courtesy of Sir Ian McKellen. That’s right: Gandalf

Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner became a New York Times bestselling author with her 2021 memoir, Crying in H Mart. Now, she’s making her highly anticipated return to the nonfiction world with her new book, Thank You for Your Suffering. The upcoming memoir—out April 27, 2027, via Knopf—documents the year that Zauner lived abroad in South

This article has been updated with a new statement from Robert Kraft. Last week, Macklemore said that he had been ousted as an opener on the U.S. leg of Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour after calling for a free Palestine onstage. Now, the rapper has pledged to donate $1 million of his net earnings from the

Kevin Morby found a way to synthesize his soaring and heartfelt indie rock as a singer-songwriter on May’s Little Wide Open, and he’s back with a new song that does the same. The jangly “PBJ” is about opening yourself up to the world, and there by his side to bring that emotion into focus are

Drake must be stopped. In a year when he’s already dropped two-and-a-half hours of new music—plus 18 accompanying music videos—the rapper has (at least) one more trick up his sleeve. In August, he began teasing something called “Fear of Missing Out,” which last week he described as “a not so short film,” and, later, “self

Fatima Al Qadiri has announced 3TWI (عتوي), a new EP arriving October 9, via Hyperdub. The title translates as “dirty old man,” press materials note; a single, “7ilween”—loose translation: “pretty young things”—is out now. Watch a video directed by the artist Sophia Al-Maria below. Two of the EP’s four songs feature Bobo Secret and Lama3an;

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” has spent its 22nd total week atop the Billboard Hot 100, tying the all-time record held by Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” If Langley’s out-of-the-blue country smash holds its position for one more week—as it seems on track to do—it will officially become the longest-running No. 1

Big Ears is set to take over downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, for its 2027 edition, which takes place April 1-4. Jeff Tweedy, Robert Glasper, Weyes Blood, Oneohtrix Point Never, Bill Frisell, and Dinner Party—the supergroup of Glasper, Terrace Martin, Kamasi Washington, and 9th Wonder—top the billing for the music, art, and film festival. Also listed are

Chief Keef has postponed a hometown Chicago concert that was set to be his first in the city in 14 years. (Although he headlined Lyrical Lemonade both earlier this year and in 2024, that’s technically in Bridgeview, Illinois.) The show, which was scheduled for September 12 at the Huntington Bank Pavilion, will now take place

Jeff Tweedy is now a card-carrying member of the Twisted Teens fan club. On September 11, the Wilco frontman shared a cover of the New Orleans duo’s “Wild Connection,” which appears on their February album Blame the Clown. Give it a listen on his Substack. In a short essay about the cover, Tweedy complemented bandleader

We’ve been hearing about Quavo’s next studio album for months now, thanks to two previously released singles and a steady stream of clips of the Migos rapper recording on a yacht with Pharrell. Now we know when the full thing is arriving. Qrömelife, which was executive produced by the Neptunes co-founder, is dropping October 2

Enter this story with caution: Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon has made a meatloaf-themed jingle so deft, unctuous, and maddeningly catchy it will probably ruin your weekend. True to his folk locavore bona fides—though not his penchant for the ponderous and arcane—Vernon recorded the chirpy number to promote the Minnesota bar and grill Howard’s Bar, opened

A federal jury has found Lil Durk not guilty of plotting to kill Georgia rapper Quando Rondo. Durk has been in federal custody since 2024, when he was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit stalking, and stalking resulting in death. Prosecutors had argued the Grammy winner worked with a cohort

Jhené Aiko has spent the six years since Chilombo navigating setbacks and false starts. “It’s like every time I tried to lock in, life knocked me on my ass,” she said ahead of Westside Whimsy, a suite of mellifluous odes to her Los Angeles hometown. To mark the occasion, the R&B singer enlisted a slate

Note: This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual assault. N.O.R.E. is facing allegations of sexual assault from a former music executive, who claims the Queens rapper and podcast host forcibly digitally penetrated her in a Manhattan nightclub in 1999. At the time, Carmen Bryan, who was working as the finance officer of Def Jam affiliate

Ahead of releasing her new album, Frequency of Love, Victoria Monét has announced a run of North American headlining shows. The Frequency of Love Tour will hit most major U.S. and Canadian cities—including a night at Madison Square Garden—across late October, November, and December. Check out the full itinerary below. Monét spent the summer supporting

Soul Glo are gearing up to release their first album since 2022. Due out January 15 on Epitaph, Na I’m Gon Grab Allat follows 2022’s Diaspora Problems, and features contributions from MIKE, Bbymutha, TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Eugene Robinson, and more. Today, they also shared a new song with Mannequin Pussy, “February Theory,”

Between recording two albums and playing the European festival route, Beirut have stayed busy this decade. But Zach Condon and his bandmates haven’t been able to cross the pond in that time, and they’re looking to change that in 2027. Next spring, Beirut will finally perform their first North American tour in eight years. Check

Universal Pictures has announced a wave of additions to the cast of its forthcoming Snoop Dogg biopic, Variety reports. Among them is SwayvoTwain—aka Michael D’Angelo Archer Jr., the son of late neo-soul legends D’Angelo and Angie Stone—who will play Biggie Smalls. G Perico is also set to portray Big Reecie Cup, and one-time Ellen Show

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

During a mid-set break at this year’s Summer Sonic festival in Japan, a teaser highlighting old Radiohead footage with the words “Tokyo 2027” appeared on screen. A week later, multiple billboards with slightly different phrasing—“Radiohead 2027”—popped up around Tokyo’s Miyashita Park. What, exactly, the band had planned was further kept under wraps, but no longer.

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. Below, hear the first single from the album, “Blister Sunrise.” Gonzalez made the new record with collaborators Joe Berry, Clément Libes, and Benoit de Villeneuve, he said in a post

Jan St. Werner, AKA one-half of the German electronic duo Mouse on Mars, has a new solo record on the way. Squares Will Fall, due out November 13 on Thrill Jockey, features contributions from Sufjan Stevens, Justin Vernon, Beirut’s Zach Condon, the National’s Ben Lanz, and more. You can listen to an excerpt of the

Bad Bunny is officially an Emmy award winner. At the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday night, his Super Bowl LX Halftime Show swept all seven categories it was nominated in. It made the Debí Tirar Más Fotos artist’s all-American spectacular the most-decorated nominee of the night. The special brought home the Emmy for Outstanding Variety

Steven Hall, the musician who performs as Nirosta Steel, has issued an apology for following the accounts of what appeared to be AI-generated child actors on the popular Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, also known as Red Note. On Monday, August 24, an X account with the username @simonwestgate shared a post that read, “now

This weekend, Kanye West returned to Chicago for his first hometown sets since 2021. After numerous international show cancellations, a ban from the UK, and allegations that his most recent album, Bully, was made with AI, Ye’s homecoming marked one of his most highly anticipated performances in years. Among the first night’s guests were Big

The boys are fighting. This week, Yeat mysteriously vanished from Slime Language 3, the third installment of Young Thug’s YSL label compilation series. The rapper was originally featured on the track “Eaters” alongside Travis Scott, Future, and Tezzus before fans noticed on Monday (August 31) that his verse had been removed. Rumors swirled about another

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 Chat Pile, Melissa Auf der Maur, and more. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music

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