For decades, the country music being played on the radio has maintained the well-travelled backroads of pickup trucks, cans of beer, old dogs and cheating hearts. Bubbling under these platinum-selling artists are a subtler, more literary set of musicians usually tagged under the less marketable but more austere subgenre of Contemporary Folk or the Grammy-friendly…
Lido Pimienta has announced her first new album in five years, La Belleza. The follow-up to 2020’s Miss Colombia arrives May 16 via Anti-. The Colombian and Canadian musician’s third studio record is led by the single “Mango,” which comes with a lyric video filmed in a humble courtyard. Check out the new song below….
Earlier this month, a number of Stereolab fans received a mysterious 7″ vinyl single in the mail labeled “Unsolicited Stereolab Material.” The disc, which was also sent to some Pitchfork staffers, contained a song called “Aerial Troubles” on one side and its instrumental version of the track on the reverse. Now, the band has released…
Turnstile are coming back with their first album since 2021’s Glow On. The new album, Never Enough, is out on June 6 via Roadrunner. Leading the full-length is the title song, which arrives with a music video directed by singer Brendan Yates and guitarist Pat McCrory. Watch the new video below. Brendan Yates produced Never…
Mac DeMarco has announced a tour of the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, and his native Canada. The first show is slated to take place on Friday, August 29, at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre. By then, we are likely to have a new Mac DeMarco album, as the musician said in a statement, “I…
Arcade Fire have announced their first album since frontman Win Butler was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women in 2022. Pink Elephant, out May 9 via Columbia, was produced by Butler and Régine Chassagne alongside Daniel Lanois; the lineup remains as it has been since Will Butler left the group in 2022. A new…
Earlier this year, there was a small bit of consternation in the Death Grips fan community due to an apparent private comment from erstwhile band member Andy Morin that was leaked publicly. In the message, Morin suggested the band had broken up, but conceded “none of us can ever predict what will happen with the…
Chicago rock trio Lifeguard have announced their debut album. Ripped and Torn drops June 6 via Matador. The band has also announced a North American and European tour behind the LP and shared its lead single, “It Will Get Worse.” The track arrives alongside a video, directed by Eli Schmitt, in which the band members…
Everything changed for Blondie in 1978. Leaning into their punk background, pop hooks, and the playful, far-ranging curiosities that gave their shows an edge, Blondie honed in on their sound with Plastic Letters, their sophomore album, in February and landed on U.S. Billboard charts for the first time. The band’s cultural domination exploded with Parallel…
Amadou Bagayoko, the award-winning Malian singer and guitarist in the husband-and-wife duo Amadou & Mariam, has died, according to the Associated Press. In a local televised broadcast, Mali’s Minister of Culture Mamou Daffé revealed that Bagayoko died on Friday (April 4) in his hometown of Bamako. He was 70. Alongside his wife Mariam Doumbia, Bagayoko…
