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Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer whose epic power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart” became a definitive pop classic of the 1980s, died yesterday (July 8) at a hospital near her home in the Portuguese city of Faro, according to a post on her official Facebook page. She had been in the hospital since May, when

Wavves and Say Anything are merging their respective takes on coastal pop-punk for a new collaborative album called Cherry Soda. It’s out September 18 via I Surrender. The lead single, “Deathx1k,” gets a cheeky stop-motion video directed by Jelly Eyes, featuring claymation versions of Nathan Williams, Max Bemis, and a handful of other critters who

Pitchfork Festival is set to return to Mexico City this fall, with a lineup featuring American Football, Lido Pimienta, Perfume Genius, and Immasoul. The event will take place from September 23-27, at venues across the city, including Foro Indie Rocks! and Orbe. Tickets are on sale now. A second slate of artists will be announced

Slayr, the Philadelphia rapper who’s been making a name for himself in the underground hip-hop scene, is gearing up to release a new EP this Friday. It’s called Avant Nova, perhaps in connection to another project he’s been teasing titled Fabula Nova. The EP’s opening track, “Promise,” features production from Underscores. Check out the cover

This Friday, Kelela will finally release New Avatar, her long-awaited third album. She’s satiating her fans’ appetites a few days early, though, with the new single “The Bridge” featuring PinkPantheress. Give the song a listen below. New Avatar deviates from the electronic R&B that Kelela is known for and, instead, pays homage to her early

Carmen Villain has announced a new album. The ambient dub producer and clarinetist will release Memoria on September 4 via Smalltown Supersound. She’s also shared the album’s first single. Listen to “Entre Nosotros” below. Villain’s follow-up to 2022’s Only Love From Now On, Memoria borrows its title from Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 2021 film. She also drew

Djrum has a new EP on the way. I Wander, the British producer’s follow-up to Under Tangled Silence, is due August 14, via Houndstooth. The record, says Felix Manuel in a press release, “can be digested in bitesize chunks, or taken as a whole. Each track tells a different story on their own, but taken

Smirk, the power-pop-meets-punk-rock brainchild of Portland musician Nick Vicario, has a knack for turning tropes inside out. On his latest effort, Speculative Fiction, he reinvents suburban anhedonia with an unexpectedly meticulous, pop-forward sensibility. With help from friends like Ceremony’s Ross Farrar, Advertisement’s Ryan Mangione-Smith, and members of the Hotline TNT crew (who play in Smirk’s

Rico Nasty has reunited with producer Kenny Beats, who is now calling himself Kenneth Blume, for her new album, RX. It’s out July 24. Lead single “Cupcake” marks a return to Rico’s signature “sugar trap” sound following her 2025 rap-rock LP Lethal. Below, watch her joyride in an off-roader in the song’s Miggy-directed video. “I

Beyoncé is celebrating the 4th of July and the 20th anniversary of her sophomore LP B’Day with the release of a new song. “Morning Dew (Donk)” was co-written with Pharrell, The-Dream, and Darius Dixson, and produced by Pharrell and Bey. It is set to appear on an upcoming reissue of B’Day, coming September 4. A

Margo Price is celebrating July 4 weekend in typically righteous fashion, surprise releasing a protest album—or mixtape, per a press release—comprising a series of covers and a few originals. Among them are a new recording of her cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos),” now featuring Joan Baez and Memphis Mariachi. Watch

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History was made last weekend at Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival, which ran from June 26 through 28 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams. On June 27, Wilco, the Breeders, and thousands of others gathered together to attempt to break the world record for most people yo-yoing at one time.

Jorja Smith has set a release date for her third album. What Are The Odds lands on FAMM on August 21, and Smith previewed it today with a new song with Wizkid, “Alive.” A music video, which follows the singers as they dance, sweat, and flirt their way through a Paris summer night. Watch it

Victor Willis, who co-founded the Village People and co-wrote their biggest hits, died Tuesday, June 30, after a “short but aggressive illness,” according to a post on the singer’s and the Village People’s Facebook pages. His wife posted a similar statement on the singer’s own Facebook page. Willis was 74 years old. Formed in 1977, the

Catalan composer and experimental musician Marina Herlop is readying a new album, Dja Dja. Herlop will self-release her follow-up to 2023’s Nekkuja on October 9. Below, listen to a new song from the record, “Jaque.” According to press materials, Dja Dja was inspired by the “the hero’s journey,” the narrative framework popularized by Joseph Campbell

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Just as they’ve pushed the boundaries of what can reasonably be called an LP, YHWH Nailgun are now testing the limits on visual albums, too. The New York experimental rockers have shared a music video set to Magazine, their new 11-minute, 10 track album. Directed by Lane Stewart, the nocturnal short follows several mysterious characters

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

Agriculture have announced a stateside trek. In the fall, the black metal band will tour their second album, 2025’s The Spiritual Sound, primarily on the West Coast, but will travel to the Midwest to play a short run of shows in November. Throughout the month-long sprint, the Los Angeles quartet will be joined by Brooklyn

Ms. Lauryn Hill received the inaugural Living Legend Icon Award at the BET Awards 2026 tonight. To celebrate her big moment at the awards ceremony, a number of musicians paid tribute to the Fugees member—including SZA, Doechii, Nas, Doja Cat, Queen Latifah, Tems, Lizzo, Rapsody, Tierra Whack, and more—before Hill ended up performing one of

On Sunday night I was putting my clothes away and realised Virgin had been out for almost a year. I decided something had to be done about that. To be honest I haven’t really known how to talk about Virgin since it came out. I’d thought I was accustomed and even a bit desensitised to

Harmony Tividad is done with the intentional brain-rot pop of Gossip, at least for now. The former Girlpool member picks back up the acoustic guitar and, with it, her natural instincts for indie-pop earworms. Broadly recounting an endless cycle of becoming in the modern world, Lifetime is a detailed and thoughtful reflection that takes note

Empress Of has announced new album Dream House, the follow-up to 2024’s For Your Consideration. Out Sept 18 via Giant Music, the record reflects on life after the Altadena fires that destroyed Lorely Rodriguez’s home—a topic explored on the single “Wild Storm,” released today with a Mitch deQuilettes-directed video shot in the aftermath. Rodriguez will

Heavens to Betsy, the punk duo of Corin Tucker and Tracy Sawyer whose 1994 split led to the formation of Sleater-Kinney, will tour this fall for the first time since the breakup. After launching the reunion with a surprise show in Portland, Oregon, last night, Tucker and Sawyer have lined up an itinerary that includes

Carly Rae Jepsen’s lead single from her forthcoming double LP has arrived. The pop-rockish “On Wires” is the first offering from the 24-track Day and Night. Check out the Caio Vieira-drected music video for it below. In a new interview with NME, Jepsen spoke of the single’s origins as a “come hither” track, before needing

With an hour’s notice and a bat of her eyelashes, Charli XCX ushered in her third single from Music, Fashion, Film, “Wink Wink.” The song gets a music video directed by frequent collaborator Aidan Zamiri, in which the pop star swears she’s “not a bad girl anymore.” Check it out below. “Wink Wink” arrives after

The Phoebe Bridgers news cycle continues apace. After yesterday’s announcement of Lost Weekend, her first solo album in six years, Bridgers has unveiled “Lost Boys,” its lead single and her first solo song in four. In the Lance Oppenheim and Pablo Rochat-directed music video, she plays an elf surrounded by knights in a Renaissance-style video

beabadoobee has announced the follow-up to 2024’s This Is How Tomorrow Moves. Titled Pylon, the album arrives via Dirty Hit on September 18. The singer-songwriter has also shared a video for the record’s first single, “Sun Has Set,” which offers a first-person POV of beabadoobee beating someone up—until she suddenly gets sleepy and takes a

Philadelphia psych-folk duo and frontrunners for most “un-Googleable band name” @ (pronounced like “at”) have signed to 4AD for their sophomore album. Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak will release Autosmile on October 16 via the storied British label. As a lead single, they’ve shared the LP’s title track alongside a stripped-down performance video. Watch it