In 2023, Vampire Weekend launched a vinyl-only live album series called Frog on the Bass Drum. The second volume arrived last year, and the band has now detailed the series’ third installment. Frog on the Bass Drum Vol. 03 captures Vampire Weekend’s two concerts at New York’s Madison Square Garden, from their tour for Only…
Depeche Mode will release their new film, M, and an accompanying live album on CD, DVD, vinyl, and Blu-ray on December 5. The album was recorded at Mexico City’s Foro Sol Stadium during the band’s 2023 tour behind Memento Mori. Director Fernando Frias’ film, announced in August, explores Mexican culture’s relationship with death through concert…
Mirah has shared her first new music in seven years. The Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter’s new song “Catch My Breath,” her first release since 2018’s Understanding, is out now via Double Double Whammy and Mirah’s label Absolute Magnitude. The new song also features Flock of Dimes’ Jenn Wasner, Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy, and Andrew Maguire in the…
Vibe, the long-running music magazine centring on rap and R&B coverage, will merge with Rolling Stone in a deal announced last week. Vibe staffers Mya Abraham and DeMicia Inman announced as the news broke that their positions had been eliminated. Rolling Stone CEO Julian Holguin said that, as part of the move, Rolling Stone would…
We at AllMusic are big fans of what they’ve been building over at Letterboxd. If you’re not familiar, it’s a site where movie fans can rate and review films, comment on what they’ve been watching, create lists of movies based on the topics of their choice, catalog their collections, and (excitingly) list their “Top Four”…
Two decades after co-founding the Dodos with drummer Logan Kroeber, singer and guitarist Meric Long will release his first solo album under his own name. The record, Kablooey, is out this Friday, October 24, via Polyvinyl. Below, listen to the new album’s lead single, “A Small Act of Defiance.” Long worked on Kablooey in between…
Anna Calvi has enlisted Perfume Genius for a cover of the Bonnie “Prince” Billy classic “I See a Darkness.” The song accompanies the recent launch of Calvi’s new Substack, Carving Silver in Strange Weather, a home for unreleased songs, playlists, and writings on music. Watch the cover’s Alexander Brown–directed video, about two friends on a…
Columbia Records and 20th Century Studios have announced the soundtrack album for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. The soundtrack is out December 5, and it finds the film’s star, Jeremy Allen White, covering classic songs by Bruce Springsteen. See the tracklist below. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere centers on the making of Springsteen’s Nebraska, so…
Daniel Lopatin has announced a new Oneohtrix Point Never album: Tranquilizer is out digitally on November 17; physical editions follow on November 21 via Warp. Below, listen to the new album’s first three tracks, “For Residue,” “Bumpy,” and “Lifeworld.” “It’s a record shaped by commercial audio construction kits from a bygone era—an index of cliches…
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…
