Music

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

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

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

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

Bluegrass virtuoso Billy Strings has announced So Much for Goodbyes, his fifth studio album, out August 28 on Reprise. The project is dedicated to his late mother, Debra Apostol, whose artwork graces its cover. You can listen to lead single “Burn the Other End” and check out Apostol’s piece below. “I made this record to

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

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

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

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

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

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

Phoebe Bridgers has cemented her return with the announcement of a new album, Lost Weekend—her first solo record in six years. The Punisher follow-up is due August 14, via Dead Oceans, a month before she heads out on the massive Lost Tour. Album details are thin on the ground but you can check out the

Florist’s Emily Sprague has a new album on the way. Called Cyano, it includes “Double Moon,” which she released earlier this year, alongside 13 additional tracks. It’s due October 2 via Rvng Intl. Today, Sprague also shared a new song from the album, “Sing To,” as well as a video directed by their real-life partner