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Grandaddy have announced a tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their sophomore album, The Sophtware Slump. They’ll play the album in full at shows across North America in September and October. Support at select concerts comes from Pedro the Lion and Greg Freeman. See all of Grandaddy’s tour dates below. Jason Lytle and his…
Meg Remy has announced a new U.S. Girls album: Scratch It, the follow-up to 2023’s Bless This Mess, is out June 20 via 4AD. The new album’s lead single is the 12-minute “Bookends.” Watch the track’s music video below. Scroll down for U.S. Girls’ upcoming tour dates. Remy co-wrote “Bookends” with Edwin de Goeij. The…
Big Thief have announced a North American tour that mostly takes place this autumn. The Somersault Slide 360 Tour begins in September and stretches into November. See the band’s itinerary below. Big Thief have not toured North America since 2023, and they haven’t played a U.S. show since Project Pabst last year. The Somersault Slide…
Bladee is going on tour. The Swedish musician has announced the Martyr World Tour, which begins in Australia in July. After a short break, Bladee will resume the tour in North America in October. He’ll close things out in November and December with shows in Europe and the United Kingdom. See Bladee’s tour dates below….
Fiona Apple has released her first song since Fetch the Bolt Cutters. “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home),” a protest anthem advocating for jailed mothers who can’t afford bail, draws on Apple’s experience in recent years observing bail hearings for CourtWatch PG, a Maryland community fighting racism in the courtroom and working towards “abolitionist futures.” Apple…
After sending out limited-edition cassette tapes to fans, Erika de Casier has made it official: Her new album, Lifetime, is out now. The Danish musician wrote and produced her Still follow-up between August 2023 and November 2024. Listen to the album below. Lifetime is de Casier’s fourth studio album, following 2024’s Still, 2021’s Sensational, and…
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke are releasing Tall Tales, their debut album as a duo, tomorrow. As a reminder, they’ve released a video for its centerpiece and highlight, “The Spirit.” Directed by Jonathan Zawada—the artist billed as the duo’s informal third member, having made eerie shorts for all the prior singles—the new video depicts a…
Gina Birch of the Raincoats has announced her second solo studio album. The new album, Trouble, is out July 11 via Third Man Records. Leading the follow-up to 2023’s I Play My Bass Loud is “Causing Trouble Again.” Below, watch the new song’s music video. Birch directed her new music video with Dean Chalkley. She…
Moses Sumney and Paramore leader Hayley Williams have come together for a new song. Sumney co-produced the new single, “I Like It I Like It,” with Quickly, Quickly and Rob Bisel, and it’s released via his Tuntum label. Listen to the track below. “Hayley Williams and Paramore underscored a large part of my anxious youth,…
