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The second weekend of the the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival begins today (Friday, April 18), and you’ll be able to watch a lot of the major acts from the comfort of your home via the festival’s stage-by-stage YouTube livestreams. Among the streaming acts are headliners Lady Gaga, Green Day, Travis Scott, and

The ascent of Addison Rae continues apace. The burgeoning pop star has released the new song “Headphones On,” which arrives with a music video that was filmed in Reykjavík, Iceland, and directed by Mitch Ryan. In the visual, Rae sports neon pink hair and a pair of wired earbuds, rides a white horse, and pouts

Matmos, the electronic duo whose catalog includes albums made of sampled washing machines and medical procedures, have unveiled their latest gambit: a new album composed entirely of metal object sounds. Metallic Life Review combines the sounds of pots and pans, creaking cemetery gates, metal tape-deck reels, aluminum cans, and many other metals recorded throughout the

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Fresh off the release of a new album, Saba has announced a tour. The Chicago rapper will hit the road for his Big Picture Tour in June. The trek includes a stop at Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash. See Saba’s tour dates, featuring support from Ovrkast., below. Saba and producer No ID recently released their long-teased

The Newport Jazz Festival has announced the lineup for its 2025 edition. The Roots, De La Soul, Janelle Monáe, Jorja Smith, Esperanza Spalding, Terence Blanchard, and many others will perform at the festival’s longtime home at Fort Adams State Park in Rhode Island. The 71st annual event takes place August 1-3. Check out the full

Jeffrey Runnings, the vocalist and bassist with Nebraska post-punk band For Against, died on March 3 due to stage 4 cancer, Independent Project Records has confirmed. “Jeffrey Runnings was not only a good friend and an outstanding musician and songwriter, but someone whose life revolved around music,” Independent Project Records founder and co-owner Bruce Licher

Max Romeo, the celebrated roots reggae vocalist whose political anthems soundtracked a period of upheaval in his native Jamaica, died on Friday, April 11, of complications relating to a heart condition, The Guardian reports, citing his lawyer, Errol Michael Henry. He was 80 years old. Born Maxwell Livingston Smith in the northern Jamaican town of

A jury in Bexar County, Texas, has found Tay-K guilty of murder, News 4 San Antonio reports. It is the second time that the rapper behind the viral song “The Race” has been found guilty of murder. Tay-K was accused by Bexar County prosecutors of shooting and killing a 23-year-old photographer named Mark Anthony Saldivar.

Post Malone is closing out the first weekend of the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday night (April 13). This is the second time in Malone’s career that he’s played the Indio, California, festival, following a 2018 set, but this go-around marks his debut as a headliner and an accidental lineup leaker.

Green Day was one of last night’s (Saturday, April 12) headliners at the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, alongside Travis Scott. The set marked the punk trio’s debut performance at the Indio, California festival, despite frontman Billie Joe Armstrong joining the Replacements on stage in 2014. Scroll down to check out clips of

Travis Scott is tonight’s second headliner at the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, following Green Day, His set, which Scott has teased as the unveiling of a “new chapter,” will mark the Houston rapper’s first performance at the festival since 2017. The official Coachella 2025 poster not only unveiled that he would perform,

A. G. Cook played Coachella tonight (Friday, April 11). In the middle of his set, which drew heavily from Cook’s 2024 solo album Britpop, as well as Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat, Danny Brown appeared in a red telephone booth onstage. The Detroit rapper performed “Attak,” his 2014 collaboration with electronic

Lady Gaga is the Friday headliner at the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. She’s performing at the Indio, California, festival for the first time since her 2017 debut at the event, when she famously replaced a then-pregnant Beyoncé as a headliner. The first weekend of her triumphant 2025 return is sure to feature

Days after the email exchange, Williams spoke with Pitchfork over the phone about her conversation with Grenell, the Kennedy Center employees who contacted her afterward, and why she hopes the institution will continue booking arts programming. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. Pitchfork: Why did you want to reach out to the

The livestream schedule for the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has been announced. Most of the weekend’s performances can be watched on YouTube via the festival’s stage-by-stage streams, which begin airing today (Friday, April 11) at 4:00 p.m. PST / 7:00 p.m. EST, and will run nonstop through Sunday, April 13. Scroll down

Dirty Projectors’ David Longstreth scored writer and director Isaiah Saxon’s new A24 movie, The Legend of Ochi, and he’s now announced the details of the soundtrack album. The album is out on the same day as the film’s theatrical release, April 25, and it’s preceded by three new songs. Listen to “Prelude,” “The Pond,” and

Patti Smith might have two memoirs under her belt already, but that doesn’t mean her storied life has been captured in full through text just yet. The musician and poet has just announced Bread of Angels, a new memoir about her childhood in working class Philadelphia and South Jersey, her marriage to guitarist Fred “Sonic”

Frankie Cosmos have announced their sixth studio album. Different Talking arrives June 27 via Sub Pop. Today, the Greta Kline-led band have released a music video for lead single “Vanity.” Kline directed the visual and shot it with bandmate Alex Bailey. Watch Frankie Cosmos goof around in the clip below, and scroll down for the

Arcade Fire have announced their first album since frontman Win Butler was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women in 2022. Pink Elephant, out May 9 via Columbia, was produced by Butler and Régine Chassagne alongside Daniel Lanois; the lineup remains as it has been since Will Butler left the group in 2022. A new

Earlier this year, there was a small bit of consternation in the Death Grips fan community due to an apparent private comment from erstwhile band member Andy Morin that was leaked publicly. In the message, Morin suggested the band had broken up, but conceded “none of us can ever predict what will happen with the

Amadou Bagayoko, the award-winning Malian singer and guitarist in the husband-and-wife duo Amadou & Mariam, has died, according to the Associated Press. In a local televised broadcast, Mali’s Minister of Culture Mamou Daffé revealed that Bagayoko died on Friday (April 4) in his hometown of Bamako. He was 70. Alongside his wife Mariam Doumbia, Bagayoko

Wes Anderson’s new movie, The Phoenician Scheme, arrives in theaters on May 30, and today, Focus Features has unveiled the first trailer. It presents the story of Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro), a rich businessman and “maverick in the fields of armaments and aviation” who enlists his daughter (Mia Threapleton), a nun, in a treacherous

Officially formed in Boston in the summer of 1981, SS Decontrol (short for Society System Decontrol) featured Barile on guitar alongside singer David “Springa” Spring, bassist Jamie Sciarappa, and drummer Chris Foley. Although Foley was the only member who previously knew how to play an instrument, the band barreled ahead, borrowing money from Barile’s parents

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Tron: Ares has received its first trailer. The sequel to 2010’s Tron: Legacy and third film in Disney’s Tron franchise “follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings,” according to a press release. Jared Leto and Greta

Last month, FKA twigs pushed back a handful of North American concerts on her Eusexua Tour due to visa issues. She’s now been forced to postpone more shows and cancel outright festival appearances in Mexico and California. See FKA twigs’ latest tour dates below. “im devastated to share the news that due to ongoing visa

Haim have shared their second single in a month. “Everybody’s Trying to Figure Me Out” is co-produced by Danielle Haim and longtime collaborator Rostam Batmanglij, and Justin Vernon is credited as a writer and composer of the track, alongside the Haim sisters and Rostam. Take a listen below. Prefacing the song on Instagram yesterday, Danielle

Perfume Genius stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday (April 3), where Mike Hadreas and his band performed “It’s a Mirror” from his new album Glory. Hadreas commenced the performance sprawled across a rotating chair, then walked downstage amid billowing fog for a live rendition of the track. Hadreas’ longtime collaborator and

Jane Remover has officially shared their new album Revengeseekerz. Having never received an official release date, the singer-producer’s 12-track follow-up to 2023’s Census Designated includes the singles “JRJRJR” and “Dancing With Your Eyes Closed,” and features Detroit rapper Danny Brown on the track “Psychoboost.” The record is accompanied by a music video for new song