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SZA’s new album, Lana, the expanded edition of SOS, has finally arrived. To nobody’s surprise, the eternal perfectionist was still tweaking the record when fans expected it to drop at midnight on Friday (December 20). Now, it is here in all its 38-song glory. The deluxe LP features 15 additional songs—including one titled “30 for

Spotify has formally rejected Drake’s recent p-and-spotify-of-illegally-boosting-kendrick-lamars-not-like-us-streams-in-new-legal-filing/ that the streaming giant helped Universal Music Group (UMG) illegally inflate streams of Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us,” Billboard reports and Pitchfork can confirm. In court documents, viewed by Pitchfork, Spotify refers to Drake’s petitions as “legally deficient” and writes that they “should be denied.” In

Hozier returned to Saturday Night Live for the NBC program’s final pre-Christmas episode of 2024. He first played “Too Sweet,” which former President Barack Obama recently named one of his favorite songs of the year. The Irish musician then did the Pogues’ holiday classic “Fairytale of New York.” Watch Hozier’s SNL performances below. Hozier made

Former President Barack Obama has shared his annual list of his favorite songs of the year, featuring Kendrick Lamar’s GNX track “Squabble Up,” “Yayo,” by rising Nigerian star Rema, and the Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman duet “Right Back to It.” Billie Eilish, Tyla, Fontaines D.C., Shaboozey, Beyoncé, Moses Sumney, Johnny Blue Skies, and more appear

Alfa Anderson, the singer of some of disco group Chic’s biggest songs, including “Le Freak,” “Good Times,” “My Forbidden Lover,” “At Last I Am Free,” “I Want Your Love,” has died. The band’s Nile Rodgers shared the news on social media, but he did not disclose a cause of death. Anderson was 78 year old.

A new movie from the Weeknd, which shares a title with his forthcoming album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, has received a North American release date of May 16, 2025, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The suspense thriller stars Abel Tesfaye alongside Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan, with director Trey Edward Shults (known for the A24 movies

Boldy James links up with King of the Hill–referencing producer WhoTheHellIsCarlo for their first collaborative project. The record swiftly follows Boldy James’ latest stellar full-length, The Bricktionary, the rapper inviting Conway the Machine, Styles P, King Hendricks, and Zelooperz to join him across seven tracks. Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon

Prince, the Clash, Frankie Beverly, and Roxanne Shanté are among the Grammys’ 2025 Lifetime Achievement honorees, the Recording Academy announced today. Frankie Valli, Dr. Bobby Jones, and Taj Mahal round out the recipients; Erroll Garner, Glyn Johns and Tania León have been named as the Trustees Award winners. The Technical Grammy will go to the

Questlove is set to direct a new documentary about the history of Saturday Night Live’s musical guests, Deadline and Variety report. To coincide with SNL’s five decades on the air, Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music will “feature untold stories behind the culture-defining, groundbreaking, and newsmaking musical performances, sketches, and cameos of the past

Massive Attack have turned down an approach from Coachella to perform at the 2025 festival, citing its environmental impact, Robert Del Naja told NME in a recent interview. Speaking to Greg Cochrane, Del Naja lamented the burden on water supplies of the festival, as well as others in desert locations and those accessible only by

Yesterday (December 17), Megan Thee Stallion filed a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court for a restraining order against Tory Lanez, reports The Associated Press. She claims that Lanez—who shot her multiple times in 2020 and is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence after being found guilty of felony charges of assault with a semiautomatic

A new album of unreleased Holger Czukay music will see the light of day on March 28. Gvoon – Brennung 1, coming out via Grönland, collects just more than an hour of music the Can co-founder recorded in the 1990s, during a period working in Cologne alongside younger techno producers who helped verse him in

The shortlists for the 2025 Academy Awards’ music categories are here. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named Daniel Blumberg, Bryce Dessner, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Hans Zimmer among the potential nominees for Best Original Score. Reznor and Ross are also Best Original Song nominees, as are Maren Morris, Pharrell Williams, and

SZA has confirmed that the deluxe version of SOS, long teased with the title Lana, will arrive on Friday. In a new teaser for the album, Ben Stiller lip syncs to one of the new songs. Check it out on her Instagram. SZA has been trailing the album that may or may not be named

Zakir Hussain, the groundbreaking percussionist who helped bring the tabla and Indian classical music to the world stage, has died, his family said in a statement. He died, in a San Francisco hospital, of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a chronic lung disease. Hussain was 73 years old. Hussain was born in Mumbai to a tabla-playing father

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

Gracie Abrams was the musical guest on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Chris Rock. The pop singer played “That’s So True” and “I Love You, I’m Sorry,” from her new album, The Secret of Us. Watch those performances and her SNL promo video with Rock and Heidi Gardner, below. Abrams has

Midas Man, the long-in-the-works biopic of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, will be available to watch in North America from Wednesday, January 22, 2025, via Olyn. Starring Jacob Fortune-Lloyd in the lead role, the film charts Epstein’s life as a gay, Jewish maverick who was instrumental in the Beatles’ rise before his death, of an accidental

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 projects from Bossman Dlow; Amen Dunes; Roc Marciano & Alchemist; Saint Etienne; Daniel Blumberg; YhapoJJ:

Röyksopp have shared a new album, Nebulous Nights – An Ambient Excursion Into Profound Mysteries—an ambient reinterpretation of their Profound Mysteries project. Röyksopp recorded Nebulous Nights live, weaving in auditory call-backs to their catalog. Listen to the record below. The Norwegian electronic music duo said in a press release, “Outside the pure listening pleasure, Nebulous

The team behind Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right is opening a new music space within New York’s historic Pyramid Club. Night Club 101 will officially open in the East Village early next year, with a preview club night in partnership with Pitchfork on Thursday, December 19. The event is presented by AdHoc, and will feature

Pink Siifu has announced a new album: Black’!Antique will arrive January 27 via Dynamite Hill. Today, Siifu has shared a new single from the project, “WhoUWithHo+.” The track features Dallas-born producer and artist Kal Banx. Check it out below. Black’!Antique follows Siifu’s 2021 solo LP Gumbo’!, as well as a pair of collaborative albums from

Sacred Bones Records has announced a new collection of music by the late cult artist Q Lazzarus. Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From the Motion Picture) is a 21-song compilation featuring a trove of unreleased tracks, all recorded between 1985 and 1995. The songs were retrieved from Q Lazzarus’ archive of

Flint, Michigan, rapper Rio da Yung OG was released from a federal prison in Arkansas on Wednesday, December 11. The musician had been serving a 60-month sentence of imprisonment after he agreed to plead guilty to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Rio da Yung OG will complete his sentence via

Magdalena Bay are extending their Imaginal Mystery Tour into 2025. Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin will perform in Australia in March before returning to North America for concerts in April and May. Supporting the experimental pop duo at most of the spring shows is Sam Austins. See Magdalena Bay’s tour dates below. Magdalena Bay announced

YoungBoy Never Broke Again has been sentenced to 23 months in prison in a federal gun case that has run on since 2020. Charged with multiple counts of possessing firearms as a convicted felon, the Louisiana-born rapper, whose legal name is Kentrell DeSean Gaulden, reached a global plea deal that also reduces four other charges

Mustafa has announced a 2025 tour in support of his debut album, Dunya. The musician will begin the tour in North America, in February, before heading to the United Kingdom and Europe for May concerts. He will close out the Lost in the Dunya Tour with stops in Ethiopia and Sudan. See Mustafa’s tour dates

Turnover are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their album Peripheral Vision with a short tour in 2025. Taking place primarily in May and June, it will bring the band to six different cities, with Turnover playing the album live in full at each show. Check out their complete list of tour dates below. Kicking off

Jack White is adding more stops to his recently announced No Name Tour. The new shows take place in France, the Netherlands, England, and Scotland in the winter. See all of White’s upcoming tour dates below. White spent the summer and autumn playing concerts in support of No Name, but he was announcing the shows

Taylor Swift played the final show of her Eras Tour last night (December 8) at Vancouver’s BC Place. And that means it’s time to see how much money she made in ticket sales across the nearly two-year trek. Over 149 concerts, Swift sold $2,077,618,725 in tickets, The New York Times reports via the musician’s production