Last week Steven Drozd unceremoniously announced that his 30-year-plus tenure with the Flaming Lips had ended, writing on Threads in a since-deleted post: “They’re done with me — but we’re not talking about it. So I’m moving on.” A couple of days later Drozd’s ex-bandmate Matthew Duckworth Kirksey seemingly confirmed the news, but the reason…
U.K. police have ended their criminal investigation into Bob Vylan over comments the punk duo made on stage about the Israeli military. “We have concluded, after reviewing all the evidence, that it does not meet the criminal threshold outlined by the [Crown Prosecution Service] for any person to be prosecuted,” the Avon and Somerset Police…
Max B, the underground Harlem rap star who broke out with his debut mixtape Million Dollar Baby in 2006, was released from prison a few weeks ago after serving 16 years behind bars for a conviction that was eventually vacated. Last year, Max called into The Joe Budden Podcast to break the good news that he’d…
It’s been 30 years since Queen last put out a studio album, but the cup that is their very expensive catalog hasn’t runneth empty just yet. Next year they’ll be reissuing their 1974 sophomore album Queen II, but as an early holiday present, they’re sharing one of the deluxe edition’s bonus tracks: a previously unreleased…
Scanning the reissues and other archival releases loved by ten of our editors below, it’s clear that 2025 was an outstanding year for vintage live recordings. This was especially true for jazz, with Yusef Lateef, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Freddie Hubbard accounting for a fraction of the legends behind riveting performances brought to…
During Bad Bunny’s rise to global superstardom, J Balvin was right there alongside him. In 2016, when Bad Bunny was just getting started and Balvin was already flying high, the Puerto Rican guested on the Colombian’s single “Si Tu Novio Te Deja Sola.” Balvin popped up on several Bad Bunny singles in 2017. The two…
Willie Nelson is the subject of a new profile in The New Yorker today. Writer Alex Abramovich followed Nelson, 92, on tour this year, to get a window into this final phase of his legendary life. There’s a lot of noteworthy info in the story. For instance, COVID-19 made Nelson so sick he wanted to…
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…
One of the most mythologized unreleased D’Angelo tracks has made its way to the internet. When D’Angelo sat for a lengthy Red Bull Music Academy interview in 2014, Questlove popped in to chat a couple times. Near the end of the talk, the Roots bandleader talked up an unreleased song called “Bitch,” recorded in 1996…
Just over a month after he was released from prison following a 16-year-long stint behind bars, Max B is back with his first new full-length in four years. The rapper has surprise-released Public Domain 7: The Purge, the seventh installment of his ongoing Public Domain mixtape series. You can listen to it below. Public Domain…
