Mavis Staples has announced a new album. Produced by Brad Cook, Sad and Beautiful World combines original material with covers of songs by Tom Waits, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Frank Ocean, Curtis Mayfield, and Leonard Cohen, among others. In June, Staples shared her rendition of Ocean’s “Godspeed,” and, today, she’s shared her take on…
Numero Group has announced a new live album from Hüsker Dü. 1985: The Miracle Year is a 4xLP box set that captures the Minneapolis punk band onstage at First Avenue during its fiery SST era. It’s out November 7, but several selections have already been released online. Below, listen to excerpts from a November show…
Apple Music is rolling out a new tool that allows you to import playlists from other streaming services. After beta-testing in Australia and New Zealand, the tool is now available in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, and Mexico. The tool, announced by Apple and spotted by MacRumors, is accessed through a…
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced that they are engaged to be married. “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨,” the superstar musician and professional football player wrote in their joint Instagram post. Swift and Kelce began dating in 2023 after the Kansas City Chiefs tight end publicly expressed his interest…
The concept of a One-Hit Wonder is practically as old as the charts themselves, but what about the albums that hit it and quit? Single albums from bands that changed our worlds and then went silent? AllMusic selects some of our favorite records that rose up from nowhere and then never saw a true follow-up….
In 2023, Playboi Carti announced the Antagonist Tour, which was initially set to take place in the summer and autumn of that year. He subsequently pushed the tour into 2024, and then he postponed it indefinitely. Now, Playboi Carti has once again announced the Antagonist Tour. The tour’s newest incarnation finds the rapper performing in…
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Kneecap have canceled a soldout, 15-date tour of the United States, citing the shows’ proximity to Mo Chara’s next court appearance on a terror charge. Four Canadian shows—two in Toronto, two in Vancouver—are set to go ahead, as are their European dates. Find their current itinerary, with the canceled dates crossed out, below. In a…
Last week, Lil Nas X was arrested after allegedly charging at police officers in Los Angeles when they confronted him for walking naked down Ventura Boulevard. The rapper was arraigned today and formally charged with four felonies, and, per TMZ, he pleaded not guilty to the charges. Lil Nas X is being charged with with…
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…
