Music

Dream pop/electronica band Sweet Trip have returned with a pair of new tracks. Listen to “Walkers Beware! We Drive Into the Sun” and “Stab-Slow” below. The former track will appear on Roberto Burgos and Valerie Cooper’s forthcoming album A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals, their first LP in 12 years. It’s set to

Rico Nasty brought “OHFR?” from her debut studio album Nightmare Vacation to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday night (January 14). Watch her performance below. Following her 2018 mixtape Nasty and a 2019 collaboration with producer Kenny Beats, the Maryland rapper released Nightmare Vacation at the beginning of December. Singles “Own It,” “iPhone,” “OHFR?,”

New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain died on Wednesday of cancer. The news was confirmed on his official Facebook page with a tribute penned by Lenny Kaye. He was 69.  In April 2019, Sylvain revealed that he had been battling cancer for the past year. He launched a GoFundMe campaign in the hopes to cover

After some teasing, Ariana Grande has announced a remix of “34+35” featuring Megan Thee Stallion and Doja Cat. Check out the cover artwork below. The new remix follows the music video for the original song, helmed by Director X and released in November. “34+35” features on Grande’s most recent studio album Positions, which came out

Dilla’s Delights—the Detroit donut shop opened by J Dilla’s uncle Herman Hayes in honor of his late nephew—has permanently closed its sole location, as the Detroit Metro Times notes. Originally opened in 2016, the shop was forced to close for much of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In an IGTV video, Hayes shared that

The 43rd annual Kennedy Center Honors recipients have been announced. Joan Baez, Garth Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, artist, choreographer, and actress Debbie Allen, and violinist Midori are the honorees for 2020. Typically held in December, last year’s ceremony was postponed until May 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “The Kennedy Center Honors serves as a

Gabriel Garzón-Montano has shared a cover of Tweet and Missy Elliott’s 2002 Timbaland-produced hit “Oops (Oh My)” for Spotify Singles. The track is paired with an alternate version of his Agüita song “With a Smile.” Check them both out below. Garzón-Montano has performed “Oops (Oh My)” at shows for years; his new version of “With

Jazmine Sullivan was the musical guest on tonight’s installment of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The Philadelphia singer performed “Girl Like Me” from her new project Heaux Tales, which landed last Friday. Check it out below. Heaux Tales follows Sullivan’s 2015 studio album Reality Show, and includes her recent singles “Lost One” and “Pick

Note: This article discusses alleged abuse. Polyvinyl Records has announced that it has begun the process of pulling Beach Slang and Quiet Slang releases from distribution. In a statement to Billboard, the label claimed that it “stands in solidarity with those who have come forward about their experiences with James Alex of Beach Slang.” “We

Billie Eilish has announced a new photo book and companion audiobook. Billie Eilish features “hundreds of never-before-seen photos” from throughout her childhood and career to date. The book arrives via Grand Central Publishing in the U.S. and Wren & Rook in the UK on May 11. The audiobook, set to arrive on the same day,

Note: This article discusses acts of self-harm and alleged abuse. The family of Beach Slang and Quiet Slang’s James Alex has released a statement revealing that Alex is “in an inpatient facility after attempting to take his life.” According to the family, Alex “is getting the help he needs and will be on a true

Jack White has announced the release of Jack White: Live at the Masonic Temple, the 47th installment in Third Man’s Vault subscription series, with a live version of his song “Missing Pieces.” The package comprises a recording of his July 30, 2014 show at Detroit’s Masonic Temple on four colored LPs, as well as a

Academy Award winner Danny Boyle is directing a new TV show about Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, FX has announced. The six-episode limited series, which Boyle will also executive produce, is based on Jones’ memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol. Production begins on March 7. “Imagine breaking into the world of The Crown

Michael Fonfara, the keyboardist best known for his work with Lou Reed and the Downchild Blues Band, has died, CBC News reports and Pitchfork can confirm. Fonfara died January 8 in a Toronto hospital following a two-year battle with cancer, as Fonfara’s publicist confirmed in a statement sent to Pitchfork. Fonfara was 74 years old.

Lana Del Rey’s new album Chemtrails Over the Country Club has been promised since 2019, and today, she’s shared the album’s tracklist and artwork. Chemtrails includes the already released “Let Me Love You Like a Woman,” the previously teased song “Tulsa Jesus Freak,” and the title track that’s scheduled to arrive tomorrow. The album ends

Madlib and Four Tet (a.k.a. Kieran Hebden) have announced the details of their new collaborative LP Sound Ancestors. The music is credited to Madlib; Hebden edited, arranged, and mastered the LP. It’s due out January 29 via the Madvillainy producer’s Madlib Invazion label. Check out the full track list below. Last week Madlib and Four

Jazmine Sullivan performed a “Tiny Desk (Home) Concert” for NPR. She sang four songs from her newly released project Heaux Tales—“Bodies (Intro),” “The Other Side,” “Lost One,” and the H.E.R. collaboration “Girl Like Me”—in addition to “Let It Burn,” which appeared on her 2015 album Reality Show. Check out the full set below. Ahead of

Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus is now the most-certified song in RIAA history. The viral rap star shared on Twitter that the single, released in 2019, had gone 14x Platinum, displacing “All of Me” by John Legend and “Despacito” by Daddy Yankee, Luis Fonsi, and Justin Bieber, which are both

The Mountain Goats appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform their song “Get Famous,” from the group’s most recent album Getting into Knives. The in-studio performance was filmed remotely; check it out below. The Mountain Goats released two albums in 2020: April’s Songs for Pierre Chuvin, which Darnielle recorded alone on his

WizKid and Burna Boy have shared the music video for their Made in Lagos collaboration “Ginger.” Directed by Meji Alabi, who previously helmed videos for Burna Boy’s “Pull Up” and “On the Low,” the video finds the two artists in a sparse warehouse, surrounded by minimal set dressing. At one point, they play mancala with

Ariel Pink has been dropped by his record label Mexican Summer. The label tweeted that it has “decided to end [its] working relationship” with the artist “moving forward.” Mexican Summer had been set to release Odditties Sodomies Vol. 1, Sit n’ Spin, Odditties Sodomies Vol. 3, and Scared Famous/FF>> on January 29 as the final

Virgil Abloh has shared a new single, “Delicate Limbs,” featuring serpentwithfeet. Below, check out the music video, which finds Josiah Wise encounter a tree spirit in the forest. Prior to “Delicate Limbs,” the Louis Vuitton designer’s last music release was Orvnge, a collaborative EP with German producer Boys Noize. Last summer, he featured on “SHOES,”

Julien Baker was the musical guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (January 7). Baker performed her recent song “Faith Healer” from Nashville’s Exit/In. Watch it all go down below. “Faith Healer” appears on Julien Baker’s forthcoming album Little Oblivions, which arrives February 26 via Matador. The follow-up to 2017’s Turn Out

Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, the men behind the UK-based experimental pop project the KLF, have released a new movie called Welcome to the Dark Ages. Watch a trailer for it below. According to a press release about the project, Welcome to the Dark Ages follows the first year of the pair’s efforts to build

Vagabon and Courtney Barnett have teamed up for a cover of “Reason to Believe.” The song was originally written and recorded by Tim Hardin in 1965 and later covered by Karen Dalton and a number of different artists. Listen to Vagabon and Barnett’s version, as well as Dalton’s, below. “I recently discovered the Karen Dalton

Neil Young has sold a 50% stake of his songwriting catalog to Hipgnosis Songs Fund, the company founded by former artist manager Merck Mercuriadis, as The Associated Press reports. The sale includes copyright and income interests of approximately 1,180 songs written or co-written by Young throughout his decades-long career. Exact financial terms were not disclosed.

Bill Callahan and Bonnie “Prince” Billy have shared yet another cover song. For their version of Johnnie Frierson’s “Miracles,” the Bills recruited fellow Drag City artist Ty Segall. Check out the new “Miracles” video, directed by Sai Selvarajan, below. Bill and Bonnie kicked off 2021 with a cover of Lou Reed’s “Rooftop Garden.” Last year,

As part of her ongoing reissue series, PJ Harvey has announced a vinyl reissue of her fifth album, 2000’s Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea. It will be released alongside Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea: Demos, a collection of unreleased demos of every track on the album. Both sets arrive

Alice Glass has shared a video for her new song “SUFFER AND SWALLOW.” The stop-motion animated visual was created by Lucas David. Check it out below. Last summer, Glass released “NIGHTMARES,” a Jupiter Keyes–produced track that appeared on a Sermon 3 Recordings’ anniversary compilation. In 2018 she shared the song “I Trusted You” as part

The 2021 Grammy Awards have been postponed from the originally scheduled date of January 31, as Rolling Stone and Variety report. The Recording Academy has yet to announce the new date, but sources speaking to RS said that the organizers are aiming to hold the ceremony in March. Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for