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Where else but Portland? Last night (May 20), Kevin Morby played the Oregon capitol’s Revolution Hall, where he was joined onstage by a certified local hero: Portlandia star and Sleater-Kinney founder Carrie Brownstein. Together, they performed the band’s 2005 classic “Modern Girl,” a track so essential within Sleater-Kinney’s enduring catalog Brownstein named her 2015 memoir

Arab Strap are back, and in typically caustic form. The Scottish duo of Malcolm Middleton and Aidan Moffat will return with Half-Told Tales on September 4, via Rock Action. The song that accompanies the news, “You You You,” comes with a fun video directed by Luke Bovill. Watch it below. Half-Told Tales marks the duo’s

The first teaser trailer for Live Nation’s Rolling Loud movie is here. If this is the first you’re hearing of a Rolling Loud movie, Owen Wilson stars in it as a “by-the-book dad trying way too hard to be a cool dad” (this is a direct quote from the promotional copy) who soon loses his

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

All Things Go Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 2026 edition. Lola Young, Hayley Williams, Mitski, and Brandi Carlile will headline the three-day music festival at Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, with Ethel Cain, Zara Larsson, and Muna rounding out the bill. It takes place from September 25 to 27. That same weekend, the New

The Smashing Pumpkins have detailed an extensive run of concerts they’re calling The Rats in a Cage Tour. Each show on this fall leg will feature “two unique sets” celebrating Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ recent 30th anniversary, as well as other “unruly hits and dark treasures.” Find their complete list of tour dates

Sir Paul McCartney was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on May 16, taking on the slot for the first time since 2012 to ring in the show’s Season 51 finale. The 83-year-old artist performed opposite host Will Ferrell, playing his new song “Days We Left Behind” and a Wings classic, “Band on the

Nick Valensi, one of the original guitarists in the Strokes, is dropping out for an unspecified portion of the band’s upcoming performances. “Nick will be taking a temporary break from the scheduled tour, but we look forward to his return,” reads a message posted to the Strokes’ Instagram story and viewed by Pitchfork. Valensi will

Two months after Swedish rapper/enigma Bladee dropped a pair of singles, he’s back with a new song called “Blondie” and an album announcement. Produced by fellow Drain Gang member Whitearmor, Sulfur Surfer arrives May 20 on Trash Island. A tracklist hasn’t been revealed, but one song is confirmed to feature David Tibet’s long-running doom folk

Note: This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual assault. Jermaine Jackson, a Jackson 5 co-founder and older brother of Michael Jackson, has been ordered to pay Rita Barrett $6.5 million in damages after failing to respond to a rape lawsuit she filed in 2023, TMZ reports and court records confirm. Barrett alleged in the lawsuit

Twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz are back with their first Ibeyi album in four years. Offering, the follow-up to 2022’s Spell 31, is out June 26. Unlike the duo’s first three albums, which were released on XL, Offering will premiere independently, on the sisters’ own label, IBEYI Records. You can check out the lead single,

Seemingly discontented with only one album dropping on May 15, Drake unveiled three new LPs at the same time: Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour. Features across the trio include Future, Molly Santana, Sexyy Red, Loe Shimmy, and 21 Savage, with beats coming from Ovrkast, Riot, Boi-1da, DJ Frisco954, and more. Drake first revealed he’d

The Avalanches have returned with their first new single in six years. “Together” features Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza, and Prentiss, an 18-year-old artist and producer based in Jackson, Missouri. An anthropomorphic iPod and floppy disk are the stars of the song’s accompanying visualizer, which was directed and animated by frequent collaborator Jonathan Zawada. Check it

Madonna, Shakira, and BTS will take the Metlife Stadium stage on July 19, as the World Cup final presents its inaugural halftime show. The grand unveiling has been on the cards since 2024, when, at its annual New York festival, Global Citizen announced a four-year partnership with the soccer body FIFA. Global Citizen mainstay Chris

KeiyaA has announced a tour of the United States and Europe behind Hooke’s Law. In the “Thirsty” video that accompanies the news, the New York-via-Chicago singer, songwriter, and producer puts her talents in service of the song’s theme—helped along by a Gucci Mane interpolation—by dancing and drinking a lot of milk. Watch it go down

Overmono, the Welsh electronic duo of brothers Tom and Ed Russell, have announced their second album, Pure Devotion. Due out August 7 on XL Recordings, the follow-up to their 2023 debut Good Lies features Ruthven, Kindora, Rock Floyd, and John Joseph Holt. Today, the duo released a lead single, “Lockup,” which retools Birmingham post-punk group

A Broadway jukebox musical about “Weird Al” Yankovic is in the works, Deadline reports. Titled Dare to Be Stupid, its soundtrack will be comprised of parody songs from throughout Yankovic’s extensive spoof oeuvre, including “White & Nerdy” (his take on “Ridin’” by Chamillionaire), “Amish Paradise” (Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”), “Eat It” (“Beat It”), “Like a Surgeon”

Bloc Party have a new album on the way. The London band enlisted Trevor Horn for Anatomy of a Brief Romance, their follow-up to the 2022 LP Alpha Games. Listen to the single “Coming on Strong” below. Kele Okereke says he wrote the record in the wake of a more than decade-long relationship. “Every lyric

Rostam Batmanglij produced Clairo’s 2019 debut Immunity, and together they crafted the masterpiece (and third best song of that year) that is “Bags.” Seven years later, the pair has reunited for the latest single from Rostam’s forthcoming album American Stories. Titled after the late French chanteuse Françoise Hardy, “Hardy” is built around a sample of

Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold their recorded music catalog to Warner Music Group for more than $300 million, reports Billboard. The deal includes all of the band’s recorded output, including their 13 studio albums, which reportedly generate around $26 million annually. Although the band owned their recorded catalog independently for the past year, during