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Nearly two months after Nina Protocol announced it was shutting down, the free, independent music platform has been acquired by SoundCloud. The agreement allows SoundCloud to inherent Nina Protocol’s editorial archive, genre map, and—if artists choose to opt into SoundCloud’s “creator ecosystem”—their music catalogues. Musicians who take SoundCloud up on that offer will reportedly “gain

M83 is readying a follow-up to 2023’s Fantasy: I Wrote You a Letter is due out September 25, via Anthony Gonzalez’s own Other Suns label. Check out the tracklist and artwork below. Gonzalez made the new record with collaborators Joe Berry, Clément Libes, and Benoit de Villeneuve, he said in a post on Instagram that

Chelsea Wolfe has announced her next album, The Dark, which is set to land on Loma Vista on August 21. The record’s lead single, “Cold,” is out now, along with hauntingly beautiful visuals placing Wolfe in the foggy wilderness. Wolfe’s follow-up to 2024’s She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She was co-written with

Sylvan Esso have announced their first album in four years. Ow ∞, the follow-up to No Rules Sandy, will be the North Carolina duo’s first release on its own Psychic Hotline label, launched back in 2018. The new single “Concrete Glen” samples Sigur Rós’ Ágætis Byrjun track “Svefn-g-englar”; watch a video for that, directed by

John Glacier has released the first single off her next album, Lack of Joy is Death. “Bond Girl” takes a more upbeat approach to the East London artist’s ambient rap with flows buoyed by a clubby beat as she raps about jet-setting and talking to Vogue (a likely reference to her actual British Vogue interview

Arca is preparing to unveil her first full-length project in five years. XXXXX, which follows the Kick series that ran from 2020 to 2021, arrives next Friday, July 31, via XL. While no new music accompanies the album announcement, a livestream directed by Daniel Sannwald has been lined up for this Thursday at 3:30 p.m.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup came to a close today (July 19) after over a month of intense gameplay. But before Spain beat out defending champion Argentina for the win with an overtime goal, another major spectacle was in order: the first-ever official World Cup Halftime Show. The inaugural event featured performances from Shakira, BTS,

Tricky may not have released an album in six years, but he has kept busy; Theis Thaws and Lonely Guest are just two aliases the trip-hop innovator has used to record new music. But, as press-release legend has it, when Tricky’s manager, Alan McGee, heard the bones of the tracks that would become Different When

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey is out in theaters today, and with it comes an original soundtrack from the indefatigable Ludwig Göransson. Closing the OST—and the film itself—is a new song from Göransson, James Blake, and Travis Scott, co-written with Nolan himself. Listen to “When I’m Home” below. Scott’s involvement in the mythological epic—mild

Bill Callahan is lending his weathered baritone to the audiobook world. The fabled Austin singer-songwriter is set to narrate Rise Above, the upcoming memoir from Matthew Schnipper. The book details how Schnipper navigated grief following the death of his nearly two-year-old son Renzo in 2021. (Full disclosure: Schnipper is a former executive editor of Pitchfork.)

Jeff Tweedy recently took a night off from Wilco’s North American tour to perform for a Jimmy Kimmel Live! episode that aired last night. Watch him do the Twilight Override single “Out in the Dark” with a five-piece band—including his sons Spencer and Sammy Tweedy—below, following an introduction by The Studio actor Ike Barinholtz. Wilco’s

Leon Bridges has announced a new, 12-track album and released precisely a third of it. Happiness Anytime, out September 25 via Columbia, is preceded today by “Light the Way,” “Tears of Joy,” “Illusion,” and “Your Love Is Electric.” Listen to all four below. Bridges’ follow-up to 2024’s Leon is produced by J Lloyd-Watson and Lydia

This post has been updated to include a statement from Spotify. Lorde would prefer to let her music speak for itself, especially when it comes to misleading AI descriptions. In an Instagram story posted on July 16, the singer expressed frustration over Spotify’s new About the Song feature, which uses AI to generate a summary

Dave Kendall, who created and hosted the influential MTV show 120 Minutes, has died. His friend Matt Pinfield, who hosted the show after Kendall’s tenure, shared the news on Instagram. Bangkok Post, where Kendall worked from 2017 to 2025, also ran an obituary. No cause of death was given. Kendall was 63, according to Bangkok

Whoopsie-daisy! Yoo-hoo! Lana Del Rey appears to have not one, but two new albums on the way. In an Instagram post on July 15, Del Rey said that her long-forthcoming LP Stove has a companion record, which she added will be completed in a month. She also appeared to reveal album artwork for both records,

Few know their way around a cover like Meshell Ndegeocello. Following tribute albums to Sun Ra and R&B hits of the ‘80s and ‘90s, the Grammy-winning jazz singer has returned with Synonym, a collection of “classic songs that…have diverse tones, representing various genres and intentional grooves,” she writes in a statement. The first single features

Toronto singer-songwriter Charlotte Cornfield is going on tour with Friendship this December. No, not the concept of camaraderie—the Philadelphia band whose latest record, Caveman Wakes Up, came out in 2025. The co-headliners will spend the last month of 2026 traversing the U.S., making stops in New York, Atlanta, Nashville, St. Louis, and more. (Requisite hometown

Jake Xerxes Fussell is readying a new album for release on September 18, via Fat Possum. The Southern folk singer-songwriter made The Old Beloved Path with producer Ben Whiteley in North Carolina. Leading the record is Fussell’s take on the folk standard “Rock Island Line.” Check that out below. Though he typically avoids such well-trodden

Fancy some film? PinkPantheress has locked in her first-ever acting role in a movie. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the Oscar-winning directing duo who go by the Daniels, are staying tight-lipped about their new feature film for Universal, but we do know that the British pop star has joined the cast alongside Matt Damon and

Mastodon will return with their first album in five years—and first since the sudden death of former frontman Brent Hinds—on August 28. Marrow Deep’s lead single, “Snakes for Dinner,” features a guest turn on vocals from Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme. He also stars in the comedy-horror video, directed by Deathcats, below. Released by