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On Christmas Day, the much-hyped, Bard-approved Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is coming to cinemas. In the starring role, Timothée Chalamet himself sings a number of Dylan classics, and his renditions will be collected on A Complete Unknown (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), also out December 25. Listen to two tracks, “Girl From the North

Sky Ferreira is back with her first new music since 2022. The new song, “Leash,” was written specifically for the upcoming A24 movie Babygirl, starring Nicole Kidman. Co-written by Ferreira and Jorge Elbrecht, “Leash” features lyrics about working through shame, feeling trapped, and fighting for yourself to persevere. Listen to “Leash (Babygirl Original Soundtrack)” below.

Kraftwerk will return to North America, in 2025, for a tour that celebrates the 50th anniversary of Autobahn. The dates will take the form of multimedia concerts blending music, visuals, and performance art. Get a preview in the video below, starring Tony Hawk and other skateboarders zipping around a half-pipe soundtracked by Kraftwerk music. Also

Bob Dylan has been an active X user lately, and he’s shared a new message about the soon-to-be-released new movie about him, A Complete Unknown. “There’s a movie about me opening soon called A Complete Unknown (what a title!),” the 83-year-old singer-songwriter began his post. “Timothee Chalamet is starring in the lead role. Timmy’s a

Miya Folick has announced a new album. Erotica Veronica is the Los Angeles musician’s third studio album and first to be self-produced. It’s out February 28 on Nettwerk and features the previously released songs “La Da Da” and “Alaska.” Scroll down to see the full tracklist and album art. Folick has also shared a music

Clairo has released the music video for her Charm single “Sexy to Someone.” In the visual, the singer-songwriter builds a fire in the woods and pals around with a Yeti, the costume apparently provided by Charm producer Leon Michels. Watch it below. Charm came out in July. The following month, Clairo shared her first music

Kendrick Lamar and SZA have announced the Grand National Tour. The North American stadium tour begins in April and stretches into June. Take a look at the longtime collaborators’ tour dates below. Live Nation, pgLang, and Top Dawg Entertainment are presenting the Grand National Tour. Tickets go on sale on Friday, December 6, at 10

Bob Bryar, the longtime My Chemical Romance drummer who played on The Black Parade and Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, has died, the band confirmed on Instagram. “It is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to Bob Bryar, our former bandmate and an important part of the history of

Kendrick Lamar’s surprise-released new album, GNX, has debuted atop the Billboard 200. It sold 319,000 equivalent album units, Billboard reports via Luminate. GNX is now the rapper’s fourth consecutive studio album to debut at No. 1, following Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, Damn., and To Pimp a Butterfly. Lamar’s Untitled Unmastered. and Black Panther:

Robert Smith has released a new remix of the Cure’s “A Fragile Thing.” Take a listen to “A Fragile Thing (RS24 Remix)” below. The Cure released “A Fragile Thing” in October as the second preview of the comeback album Songs of a Lost World. The first single, “Alone,” landed in September, and the band’s complete

Drake is going on tour in Australia and New Zealand. The Anita Max Win Tour kicks off on February 9, in Melbourne, Australia, at Rod Laver Arena. See all of Drake’s tour dates below. On February 9, in New Orleans, Drake’s rival Kendrick Lamar will play the Super Bowl LIX halftime show. Due to time

Will Cullen Hart, a founding member of the Athens, Georgia, indie-rock collective Elephant 6, died on Friday, November 29, of a heart attack, according to a statement on the Elephant 6 website. One of the musician’s Elephant 6 co-founders, Robert Schneider, shared that Hart died “suddenly, peacefully, and in a very happy mood around the

J. Cole will mark the 10th anniversary of his album 2014 Forest Hills Drive with a concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The show takes place on Monday, December 16. Pre-sale tickets go on sale online beginning on Monday, December 2, at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, and the general on-sale period begins on

Kesha is following July’s “Joyride” with the new song “Delusional.” She co-produced the new track with Zhone, and she co-wrote it with Zhone and Madison Love. Listen to the single below. “Joyride” and “Delusional” are Kesha’s first two singles on her own Kesha Records. She released her final album with Kemosabe Records, Gag Order, in

MIKE is coming back in January with a new album. The rapper and producer will drop Showbiz! on January 31 via his own 10k label. Leading the album is “You’re the Only One Watching,” which comes with a music video that MIKE co-directed with longtime collaborator Ryosuke Tanzawa. Find the new video below. MIKE released

The Weeknd has shared the release date for his next album. Hurry Up Tomorrow is officially out January 24, serving “as the final chapter in his trilogy” that also includes 2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Dawn FM. An official tracklist has not yet been announced, but the Weeknd has recently released “Dancing in the Flames,”

Traxman has announced Da Mind of Traxman Vol.3, a new album mixed and overseen by Planet Mu artist Sinjin Hawke, marking Traxman’s first record for the label in a decade. Hawke helped whittle down the tracklist, which you can see below, from a selection of hundreds of tracks dating back to 2005. Listen to one

Disclosure have shared a new song: “King Steps” is Guy and Howard Lawrence’s UK garage–inflected collaboration with British Gambian rapper Pa Salieu. “I know that garage music isn’t a genre people might expect me to jump on,” Salieu said in a press release, “but that’s what being an alien is about, moving from planet to

The Men are back with the tenth studio album of their career. The Brooklyn garage-punk staples will release Buyer Beware on February 28 via Fuzz Club. Leading that record is the new song “Pony,” which comes with a trippy music video in which animated doodles come to life over colorized footage of various real-life scenarios,

Marilyn Manson is dropping a lawsuit that he filed, in 2022, against Evan Rachel Wood and Illma Gore, Rolling Stone reports and Pitchfork can confirm. Manson has also agreed to reimburse Wood nearly $327,000 in attorneys’ fees, her team says. (A judge ruled earlier this year that he had to pay Wood’s legal fees.) In

Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker has announced a new instrument called Orchid. Conceived by the producer extraordinaire over a decade ago, and developed by Telepathic Instruments, Orchid is an “advanced chord generating hardware synthesizer” that was made with both longtime songwriters and new musicians alike in mind. Watch a trailer that showcases the range of abilities

Drake’s Frozen Moments LLC has issued a new legal filing in Manhattan court, accusing Universal Music Group and Spotify of “illegally” boosting streams of Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-nominated diss track “Not Like Us” by allegedly using bots, undisclosed payments, and biased recommendations, according to court documents viewed by Pitchfork. “UMG did not rely on chance, or

Lana Del Rey has announced a 2025 tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland. She’ll perform at major football stadiums, like Glasgow’s Hampden Park, Dublin’s Aviva Stadium, London’s Wembley Stadium, and Liverpool’s Anfield. (That last one might be a little more special for Del Rey.) The shows will follow her April performance at California’s Stagecoach

Do you wish Brat Summer would never end? Charli XCX is here to help. The British pop singer has announced a short run of arena dates that take place, in the United States, in the spring. She’ll perform in Austin, Texas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Rosemont, Illinois; and Brooklyn, New York. See all of Charli XCX’s upcoming

Daniel Blumberg scored Brady Corbet’s new A24 movie The Brutalist, and he’s now sharing the details of his soundtrack album. The Brutalist soundtrack is out December 13 via Milan Records. Leading the 32-song release are three “Overture” tracks. Listen to the new songs below. In a statement about the “Overture” songs, Blumberg said: “Brady and

With basically no warning, Kendrick Lamar released his new album, GNX, on Friday, and he caught everybody’s attention from the jump. On the album’s first song, “Wacced Out Murals,” Lamar mentions three veteran rappers by name, and each has responded to the name-checks, as Stereogum notes. First, Lamar raps, “Used to bump Tha Carter III,

Elsewhere, Lamar has soundtracked a Chanel short film, played a Pop Out concert in Inglewood, California, and kept his and Dave Free’s pgLang enterprise ticking along, dropping a bespoke phone last year. He also reunited with Baby Keem for “The Hillbillies,” in late 2023, and adopted the title to headline Camp Flog Gnaw. Released in

Kanye West has been sued by a woman who claims that he sexually assaulted her during a music video shoot in 2010. The woman, a model named Jenifer “Jenn” An, filed her lawsuit today (November 22) in a New York federal court. She is suing West and co-defendants Universal Music Group and Stink Digital USA

TV on the Radio performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night, playing the 2004 Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes cut “Staring at the Sun.” Watch their intense performance below. TV on the Radio recently reissued Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes for its 20th anniversary. The band is gearing up to play reunion

Jussie Smollett, the former Empire actor who was convicted, in 2021, of staging a hate crime on himself in 2019, has had that conviction overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court. The court ruled that, since Smollett had negotiated an agreement when similar charges were filed in 2019, prosecutors violated due process by trying him again