Category: Music

Dijon has announced a tour of North America and Europe behind new album Baby. A North American run kicks off in San Diego on October 25, taking in a number of West Coast cities before moving inland and heading East—including two nights at Brooklyn Paramount—through the remainder of the year. A European stint follows in…

MTV has announced the first round of performers for the 2025 Video Music Awards. Taking part in the show are: Alex Warren, Busta Rhymes, J Balvin, DJ Snake, Ricky Martin, Sabrina Carpenter, and Sombr. The 2025 VMAs take place on Sunday, September 7, at UBS Arena, in Elmont, New York. At the 2025 VMAs, Ricky…

Merchandise, the post-punk band from Tampa, Florida, are back with their first new music in nine years. “You Shot Me Down (Single Mix)” follows the group’s 2016 album, A Corpse Wired for Sound, and it arrives via frontman Carson Cox’s new digital label, Symbol + Sound. Hear the track below. Merchandise—the trio of singer Carson…

Boomtown has always defied easy definition. It’s not simply a music festival, but an entire city built from imagination, theatre, and community spirit, underpinned by some of the most adventurous line-ups in the UK. For 2025, the Hampshire spectacular felt even more ambitious. Its sprawling set design, storyline-driven performances, and kaleidoscopic cast of artists created…

Godspeed You! Black Emperor are the latest indie-rockers to pull their music from Spotify. However, the Canadian post-rock band have gone one step further and removed nearly their entire discography from all major streaming services. Pitchfork has reached out to the band’s label, Constellation Records, for comment. Currently, no Godspeed You! Black Emperor records are…

A new movie from Mexican director Fernando Frias built around Depeche Mode live footage will get a theatrical release, including Imax screenings, from October 28. Depeche Mode: M is a feature film about Mexican culture’s relationship with death—a theme explored through the medium of Depeche Mode’s 2023 album, Memento Mori, and their attendant shows at…

Cindy Lee has announced a short tour of North America. The first date takes place at Chicago’s Empty Bottle, on November 5, and will feature support from Freak Heat Waves and Accessory XL. Their next show, at Toronto’s Massey Hall, will be opened by Blue Light. Cindy Lee will close things out at Montreal’s Rialto…

“E After Next,” the Moby rework that has become a staple of Avalon Emerson’s DJ sets, has been formally released via Dead Oceans. Billed as a collaboration between the two, it is part of Emerson’s dancefloor-oriented single series Perpetual Emotion Machine, which follows her 2023 dream-pop album, Avalon Emerson & the Charm. As Emerson said…

Hannah Frances has announced a new album: Nested in Tangles arrives October 10 via Fire Talk. Frances recorded her follow-up to 2024’s Keeper of the Shepherd alongside producer Kevin Copeland, and she also enlisted Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen for two songs. Watch her self-directed music video for new single “Surviving You” below. “‘Surviving You’ is a…

The first-ever musical theater production of Prince’s Purple Rain has found its lead actors. In his stage debut, Kris Kollins, a singer-songwriter based in Washington, D.C., will star as the Kid, alongside & Juliet star Rachel Webb as Apollonia. The pre-Broadway run is booked at the State Theatre in Minneapolis from October 16 to November…