Category: Music

The ever-busy King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard revealed last year that they recorded an entire album with an orchestra in the same time period that they made 2024’s Flight B741. Now, the Australian prog-rock band has announced the LP, titled Phantom Island, is on its way. A release date has not yet been revealed,…

Lorde has returned with her first taste of new music since releasing Solar Power in 2021. Today (April 9), she dropped a snippet of an unreleased song on her official TikTok account, complete with a brief video of her pacing around Washington Square Park in New York City. In the visual, she films herself singing…

Frankie Cosmos have announced their sixth studio album. Different Talking arrives June 27 via Sub Pop. Today, the Greta Kline-led band have released a music video for lead single “Vanity.” Kline directed the visual and shot it with bandmate Alex Bailey. Watch Frankie Cosmos goof around in the clip below, and scroll down for the…

Patti Smith might have two memoirs under her belt already, but that doesn’t mean her storied life has been captured in full through text just yet. The musician and poet has just announced Bread of Angels, a new memoir about her childhood in working class Philadelphia and South Jersey, her marriage to guitarist Fred “Sonic”…

For decades, the country music being played on the radio has maintained the well-travelled backroads of pickup trucks, cans of beer, old dogs and cheating hearts. Bubbling under these platinum-selling artists are a subtler, more literary set of musicians usually tagged under the less marketable but more austere subgenre of Contemporary Folk or the Grammy-friendly…

Lido Pimienta has announced her first new album in five years, La Belleza. The follow-up to 2020’s Miss Colombia arrives May 16 via Anti-. The Colombian and Canadian musician’s third studio record is led by the single “Mango,” which comes with a lyric video filmed in a humble courtyard. Check out the new song below….

Earlier this month, a number of Stereolab fans received a mysterious 7″ vinyl single in the mail labeled “Unsolicited Stereolab Material.” The disc, which was also sent to some Pitchfork staffers, contained a song called “Aerial Troubles” on one side and its instrumental version of the track on the reverse. Now, the band has released…

Turnstile are coming back with their first album since 2021’s Glow On. The new album, Never Enough, is out on June 6 via Roadrunner. Leading the full-length is the title song, which arrives with a music video directed by singer Brendan Yates and guitarist Pat McCrory. Watch the new video below. Brendan Yates produced Never…

Mac DeMarco has announced a tour of the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, and his native Canada. The first show is slated to take place on Friday, August 29, at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre. By then, we are likely to have a new Mac DeMarco album, as the musician said in a statement, “I…

Arcade Fire have announced their first album since frontman Win Butler was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women in 2022. Pink Elephant, out May 9 via Columbia, was produced by Butler and Régine Chassagne alongside Daniel Lanois; the lineup remains as it has been since Will Butler left the group in 2022. A new…