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This is Lorelei dropped by the Santa Monica public radio station KCRW today to perform five songs from his latest album The Singer in My Band. Accompanied by a four-piece band of bassist Al Nardo, keyboardist Bailey Wollowitz, and drummer Cameron Wisch, he played “I Will Eat My Heart in the Morning Light,” “Billy Came

Pope Leo XIV granted Bob Dylan a private audience at the Vatican this morning (November 4), further cementing his downtown bona fides after welcoming Patti Smith in July. Dylan, the mythically private and fuss-refusing Nobel laureate, wore a black hoodie, hood up—seemingly held aloft by a black baseball cap—for the occasion, in evidence in a

Still cruising through the promo circuit behind his June album Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me, Kurt Vile appeared on last night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform “99 BPM.” Watch him stage a masterclass in the understated shred below. Vile is gearing up for the latest North American leg of his

With less than a week’s warning, Saya Gray has shared the third entry in her series of work-in-progress Qwerty EPs. The seven-track Qwerty III is the sequel to 2024’s Qwerty II and 2023’s Qwerty. You can stream it below. “Q EPs are experiments between projects,” Gray elaborated in a statement accompanying the release. “The throwaways.

Like David Fincher was going to get someone else to score The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. Pitchfork can confirm the filmmaker has reunited with longtime collaborators Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for his forthcoming Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood spinoff. It hits theaters November 25, with a Netflix premiere set for December 23.

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

As the wise Phoebe Bridgers once said, it’s Halloween and we can be anything. This year, the music world had plenty of different ideas for how to mark the spookiest day of the season, which coincided with the end of Daylight Savings time. So don’t cry because the sun sets at 5:00 P.M. now. Smile

Juan Atkins, the lifelong producer and DJ who co-founded Detroit techno music, has died; Green Smith Artists, Atkins’ management company, confirmed his death. Atkins was slated to perform at Yu Yu Club in Mexico City last night (October 31). He was 64. As a member of the Belleville Three, Cybotron, and Borderland, Atkins’ impact on

Lily Allen, shameless pop ironist and self-satirist, has never shied from public vitriol—a quality that has come in handy as fans have reacted to her live shows behind West End Girl. Some lamented the format—essentially a full-length rendition of the LP, nothing more; venues were downsized as excitement (and prurient interest in the album’s salacious

Florence and the Machine’s cathartic live shows have been given the album treatment before—most recently 2025’s Symphony of Lungs – BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall—but the band has just announced their first ever full tour LP with Everybody Scream Tour Live, out next week. All 22 songs were recorded during this year’s run

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Bradford Cox’s return to the stage was already cause for celebration. When Atlas Sound, his long-dormant solo project, was added to the bill of Philadelphia’s Making Time ∞ festival last month, the Deerhunter frontman hadn’t performed live since 2019, save an impromptu noise set at an Athens, GA vintage market in 2023. What few could

My Chemical Romance have released a new animated short film with a pretty formidable voice cast, including Phoebe Bridgers, Billie Eilish, Hideo Kojima, and actor John C. McGinley. “Prelude to the End,” a collaboration with visual artist Lauren Tsai, arrives just after the band dropped a 20th-anniversary reissue of their album The Black Parade last

Before she embarked on her no-phones Lost Tour, Phoebe Bridgers held a series of no-phones gigs at intimate venues across the country. She closed things out at Madison Square Garden (a show our own Hattie Lindert described as a showcase of “bigger belts, more elastic vocal runs, and thornier topics” in “her oeuvre of quiet

East Coast concert lovers with a penchant for geodesic domes, rejoice: the Las Vegas Sphere is getting a sister venue in Maryland. WTOP reports that the Prince George’s County Council (PGCC) has approved up to $215 million in funding to build a Sphere on the Potomac River, just south of Washington, D.C. The shape of

If there’s anyone who knows about the pop star life, it’s Robyn. On BBC Live Lounge, the Swedish pop singer proved it with a mashup of the Teddybears’ Iggy Pop-assisted “Punkrocker” and Tinashe’s “Popstar.” Watch that all go down below. Robyn opened the performance with the first verse of “Punkrocker,” giving its iconic hook a

Veteran Illinois shoegaze band Hum have announced a 2027 tour, their first proper run since 2015. The U.S. treck kicks off in Atlanta in March, stopping in Austin, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Seattle, and more before concluding in San Francisco in July. All dates will feature support from Kansas City’s the Life and Times, while

Brakence dropped his new album Marrow just last Friday, and now the producer and singer-songwriter is gearing up to take it on the road across North America. The Marrow Tour kicks off March 4 in San Diego then loops around the continent, hitting major U.S. cities along the way before wrapping up back in Los

After a short teaser clip lit up the internet with news of their return, Dead Man’s Bones—the duo of Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields—are officially back with their first new music in 17 years. “Lost in the Night” was produced with longtime collaborator Tim Anderson, and it gets a black-and-white music video starring Hamnet’s Noah

Two months after they drop the 20th anniversary edition of At War With the Mystics, The Flaming Lips will return with their first new album in seven years (and 17th in total). The Teardrop Throbs, the band’s debut on Third Man Records, arrives January 22. The release also marks the psych-rockers first LP in 35