Saoirse Ronan will play Linda McCartney in Sam Mendes’ four-part series of Beatles biopics, Variety reports. She joins the previously announced core cast of Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr. Linda and Paul McCartney married in 1969. She’s jointly credited…
Taylor Swift has broken the first-week, equivalent-unit sales record long held by Adele for her 2015 album 25, making The Life of a Showgirl the fastest-selling-and-streaming album of the modern era, Billboard reports. Since its release on Friday, October 3, Showgirl has already hit 3.5 million equivalent unit sales—some 20,000 more than 25 amassed in…
Beverly Glenn-Copeland has announced a new album, Laughter in Summer. Out February 6, 2026, via Transgressive, the follow-up to 2023’s The Ones Ahead is a collaboration between the musician and his partner, Elizabeth Copeland, who produced the album. A pair of new songs, “Children’s Anthem” and “Let Us Dance (Movement One),” accompany the announcement. Listen…
Bon Iver’s Sable, Fable track “Day One” now has a music video. Directed by Jos Diaz Contreras, the short is set in a dystopian future where Bon Iver has retired and must be replaced by an imitator. Among the many hopefuls are Cristin Milioti, St. Vincent, Jacob Elordi in a fake beard, and the song’s…
Yesterday (October 6), PinkPantheress posted a teaser video to X. In the clip, the British musician’s animated alter-ego asks if she’d “fancy some more,” then scrawls the names of a whopping 23 artists on a whiteboard, among them Oklou, Bladee, Kylie Minogue, Kaytranada, and Jade. Now, those acts have been revealed as the featured guests…
On Friday, October 3, Zach Bryan posted a snippet of an unreleased song on his Instagram with the caption “the fading of the red white and blue.” “I heard the cops came/Cocky motherfuckers, ain’t they?”, Bryan sings on the track, which according to Stereogum is titled “Bad News.” “And ICE is gonna come bust down…
Pitchfork regrets to announce that we are postponing the launch event for our new Oklou zine due to illness. The event was originally set to take place tomorrow (Wednesday, September 8), but has been rescheduled to next Thursday, October 16. It will still be at Rough Trade Below, which is on the concourse level of…
Sudan Archives will tour North America early next year behind her Natural Brown Prom Queen follow-up The BPM. Kicking off in mid-January in Tucson, Arizona, the run takes her across the continent before wrapping up on February 20 with a hometown show at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre. Check out the itinerary below. The BPM arrives October…
What is in the current batch of new albums deemed by our reviewers as worthy of a listen? There’s a recording of Mozart’s music sung by baritone Georg Nigl accompanied by Alexander Gergelyfi on a clavichord owned by Mozart himself. The vocal ensemble Gesualdo Six (pictured) put together another outstanding program on its new album…
Future Ruins, the film-music festival organized by Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, has been canceled a month before its planned launch in Los Angeles. The festival cited “logistical challenges and complications” that would prevent it from materializing as planned, via a statement on social media. Refunds will be issued automatically, according to…
