The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards took place on Sunday night, September 7, at Long Island’s UBS Arena. Lady Gaga led the field with 12 nominations, and she came away the night’s biggest winner, taking home four Moon Person trophies. She did not, however, win Video of the Year, which went to Ariana Grande, for…
Doja Cat gave “Jealous Type,” the lead single from her forthcoming album Vie, its live debut tonight at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards. She interrupted host LL Cool J’s opening speech with a pre-taped PSA, then launched into a rendition of the track that featured an ’80s-inspired set, dance breakdown, and period-accurate saxophone solo…
Bruce Loose, the vocalist and bassist of the influential San Francisco punk rock and hardcore band Flipper, has died, the band’s drummer Stephen DePace confirmed in an email to Pitchfork. Loose had previously suffered a stroke and was recovering at home in Humboldt, California, where he is believed to have died from a heart attack…
The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards take place tonight (September 7) at Long Island’s UBS Arena. LL Cool J will host the show—a gig he previously shared with Nicki Minaj and Jack Harlow in 2022. Set to take the stage, too, are Mariah Carey, Lady Gaga, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, Sabrina Carpenter, and more. Check out…
Kneecap have shared the music video for “Sayōnara,” a new song made in collaboration with Orbital’s Paul Hartnoll. Derry Girls actor Jamie Lee O’Donnell stars in the video, which is directed by Finn Keenan. Watch that below. “I had the best time filming the ‘Sayōnara’ music video,” Jamie Lee O’Donnell said in a press release….
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…
Bruce Springsteen has announced a Nebraska expansion that includes the fabled Electric Nebraska sessions, released for the first time. Long sought-after by fans, Electric Nebraska is the informal title of the album that Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded, in 1982, from a suite of demos for his follow-up to The River. But the…
Animal Collective are celebrating the 20th anniversary of Feels with a special reissue of the album featuring nine B-sides and previously unreleased demos. Feels (20th Anniversary) is out on vinyl, CD, and digitally on October 17 via Domino. What’s more, the experimental indie-rock band is also putting out FeelsLive 04/05, a collection of live recordings…
Kneecap will livestream a concert from a secret location in Ireland on Friday, October 10, as a sort of makeup show for their recently canceled U.S. tour. As well as broadcasting online from 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (at this link), the stream will play at a ticketed showing at Kings Theatre, in Brooklyn, New…
In a series of social media posts, Justin Bieber announced that he’s releasing a new album at midnight Eastern Daylight Time. The album, Swag II, is a sequel to the pop star’s surprise July comeback effort, Swag. See the artwork for the new album below. Bieber made Swag—his first studio album since 2021’s Justice—with Mk.gee,…
