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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

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

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,

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

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

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KeiyaA has announced a tour of the United States and Europe behind Hooke’s Law. In the “Thirsty” video that accompanies the news, the New York-via-Chicago singer, songwriter, and producer puts her talents in service of the song’s theme—helped along by a Gucci Mane interpolation—by dancing and drinking a lot of milk. Watch it go down

Overmono, the Welsh electronic duo of brothers Tom and Ed Russell, have announced their second album, Pure Devotion. Due out August 7 on XL Recordings, the follow-up to their 2023 debut Good Lies features Ruthven, Kindora, Rock Floyd, and John Joseph Holt. Today, the duo released a lead single, “Lockup,” which retools Birmingham post-punk group

A Broadway jukebox musical about “Weird Al” Yankovic is in the works, Deadline reports. Titled Dare to Be Stupid, its soundtrack will be comprised of parody songs from throughout Yankovic’s extensive spoof oeuvre, including “White & Nerdy” (his take on “Ridin’” by Chamillionaire), “Amish Paradise” (Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”), “Eat It” (“Beat It”), “Like a Surgeon”

Bloc Party have a new album on the way. The London band enlisted Trevor Horn for Anatomy of a Brief Romance, their follow-up to the 2022 LP Alpha Games. Listen to the single “Coming on Strong” below. Kele Okereke says he wrote the record in the wake of a more than decade-long relationship. “Every lyric

Rostam Batmanglij produced Clairo’s 2019 debut Immunity, and together they crafted the masterpiece (and third best song of that year) that is “Bags.” Seven years later, the pair has reunited for the latest single from Rostam’s forthcoming album American Stories. Titled after the late French chanteuse Françoise Hardy, “Hardy” is built around a sample of

Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold their recorded music catalog to Warner Music Group for more than $300 million, reports Billboard. The deal includes all of the band’s recorded output, including their 13 studio albums, which reportedly generate around $26 million annually. Although the band owned their recorded catalog independently for the past year, during

Dua Lipa has sued Samsung over its use of her image on cardboard packaging for some of its televisions, which the singer says she did not consent to. Lipa is seeking “no less than $15 million” in damages for “copyright infringement, trademark infringement and misappropriation of Plaintiff’s likeness and image.” In a complaint filed on

London-based instrumentalist and poet Alabaster Deplume’s new album came to fruition last year, after a fervent period of touring with bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Tcheser Holmes in support of A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole. But the roots of the project date back to 2024, when Plume found himself in occupied Palestine working

PinkPantheress has released a dizzying, extremely British video for her Fancy That single “Girl Like Me.” The Lauzza-directed short opens with an introduction by the British institution Davina McCall—the TV personality who rose to ubiquity as the host of Big Brother—before PinkPantheress dances through a London-themed, cut-and-paste assemblage of moving walkways and synchronised dances, interspersed

Last year, Oasis announced that their momentous 2025 comeback would be documented in a concert film called Oasis Live ’25. Now, the film is set for release at select theaters on September 11—and is “currently untitled,” according to a press release. After a short run in theaters, the documentary will stream on Disney+ and Hulu.

Muna just released their new album, Dancing on the Wall, and now they’ve lined up a sprawling run of shows across the U.S., UK, and Europe. The Gets So Hot Tour officially kicks off September 17 in Phoenix and runs through November. Muna will also spend the summer hitting festivals including Lollapalooza and D.C.’s All

Beastie Boys’ Mike D has released his first song as a solo artist, “Switch Up.” The song is the first new music from any singular Beastie Boy since 2011’s Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. Check it out below. “Switch Up” began as an experiment in Mike D’s home studio, during sessions with his sons, Davis

Hayley Williams is still on her Hayley Williams at a Bachelorette Party Tour but she already has plans for a new one. Her next run, “The Hayley Williams Show,” is set to launch in September and will take the Paramore singer across both North and South America. Magdalena Bay, Rico Nasty, and Annie DiRusso will

Father John Misty has a new song, “The Payoff,” out on Sub Pop. He co-produced the track with Drew Erickson, who has worked on Father John Misty’s past two albums and is also a frequent collaborator of Lana Del Rey and Angel Olsen. Give the song a listen below. “The Payoff” is Josh Tillman’s second

Wilco frontman and noted crossword aficionado Jeff ______ (6 letters; like a popular suiting fabric) has written the New York Times’ monthly bonus crossword for May. The grid’s theme is “My Life Was Saved by Rock ’N’ Roll,” with answers that reference songs by both Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, as well as several

Kelela is releasing her third album this summer. Out July 10, New Avatar pays homage to the singer-songwriter’s early days writing music in the D.C. indie scene, before she made a pivot to electronic-tinged R&B. The full-length blends shoegaze, grunge, R&B, and electronic music, and features collaborations with PinkPantheress, A. K. Paul, and Fousheé. To

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It’s the first Monday in May, which means celebrities have already begun to converge on New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual Met Gala. This year’s dress code is “Fashion Is Art,” which asks guests to “consider the many ways that designers use the body as their blank canvas,” per Vogue. Beyoncé, Nicole

Dolly Parton has scrapped her upcoming six-date Las Vegas residency due to ongoing health issues. The 80-year-old singer-songwriter was originally set to perform at Caesar’s Palace in December 2025 before she postponed those shows (also due to health issues) to September 2026. Now, she’s shared on Instagram that she won’t make the new dates either.

Last night, Olivia Rodrigo hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time, playing double duty as musical guest. With a little luck on her side courtesy of last week’s musical guest Jack White, Rodrigo ; played “Drop Dead,” the lead single off her forthcoming album You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love;

Shakira performed a massive free show in Brazil last night at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach. The performance featured some of the Colombian superstar’s most enduring hits, a few special guests, and, according to Mayor of Rio de Janeiro Eduardo Cavaliere, it drew an estimated crowd of two million people. Check out footage from the

The Magnetic Fields’ Stephen Merritt and Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold appeared on the East Village Radio show “Elia Vs.” today (April 30) to chat with host Elia Einhorn and play a few songs, including the Magnetic Fields’ classic “Book of Love.” Check it out below, and listen to the full episode here. “Book of Love”

On top of her cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2, Lady Gaga contributed three original songs to the film’s soundtrack. She already shared one of them, the frothy Doechii collab “Runway,” and the other two—“Shape of a Woman” and “Glamorous Life” (regrettably not a Sheila E. cover)—are out today. Check them out below. The