Category: Music

Deerhoof have shared two new songs, “Sparrow Sparrow” and “Overrated Species Anyhow,” as part of a limited-edition benefit 7″ single for Joyful Noise. All proceeds from the single will go to the Trevor Project, the nonprofit suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ+ youth. Listen to both songs below. “Every penny from this release goes to the…

LCD Soundsystem have announced a 2025 residency at London’s O2 Academy Brixton. The eight-night run kicks off on June 12 and lasts on through June 22, with the two Sunday shows taking place earlier in the evening. Openers have not yet been revealed. Check out their complete list of tour dates below. Before they fly…

The 2025 BRIT Awards aired today (March 1) at London’s O2 Arena, hosted by comedian Jack Whitehall. The ceremony featured performances from Sabrina Carpenter, JADE, and The Last Dinner Party, with Teddy Swims, Myles Smith, Lola Young, Sam Fender, Ezra Collective and Jorja Smith also taking the stage. Though she did not perform, Charli XCX…

Garbage have announced the new album Let All That We Imagine Be the Light. The follow-up to 2021’s No Gods No Masters arrives on May 30 via Stun Volume. The band recorded the new album at Los Angeles’ Red Razor Sounds, Butch Vig’s home studio, and in singer Shirley Manson’s bedroom. The engineer Billy Bush…

David Johansen, who fronted the legendary 1970s proto-punk band New York Dolls and who also recorded under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter, died on Friday, February 28, his representative, Carla Parisi of Kid Logic Media, shared via email. The musician “died at home in New York City on Friday afternoon holding hands with his wife, Mara…

Next week, Pitchfork is hosting a live event to celebrate the release of a new quarterly zine. It was originally set to take place at Printed Matter, but, due to overwhelming interest, the event will now be held at the venue Baby’s All Right, located at 146 Broadway in Brooklyn. The zine launch event still…

Sabrina Carpenter has announced new North American tour dates. The Short n’ Sweet Tour returns to the United States and Canada in the autumn. See all of Carpenter’s tour dates, including imminent stops in Europe and the United Kingdom, below. Short n’ Sweet recently earned Carpenter the 2025 Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album….

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Panda Bear, Marie Davidson, Darkside, Ichiko Aoba, Kilbourne, Boldy James & Chuck Strangers,…

Lyra Pramuk has shared a new song. “Vega” is the experimental vocalist, composer, and producer’s first music in five years, and the inaugural release on her new label, pop.soil. Watch the track’s accompanying music video—made in collaboration with videographer Joseph Kadow—below. Described in a press statement as “[an] experimental hub for nurturing adventurous fresh musical…

In 2023, MF Doom’s widow, Jasmine Dumile Thompson, sued the rapper’s former A&R Eothen “Egon” Alapatt for copyright infringement, fraud, intentional misrepresentation and unjust enrichment. The complaint stemmed from Alapatt obtaining many of Doom’s handwritten notebooks, and hanging onto them following the artist’s death in 2020. Now, the two parties have resolved the dispute amicably…