Neil Young and his new band, the Chrome Hearts, have announced a tour of Europe and North America. They’ll kick things off with European shows in June and July, followed by North American concerts in August and September. See the dates for the Love Earth Tour below. Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts released their…
Nearly 33 years after forming, Wu-Tang Clan have announced the start of their final tour. Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber takes place this summer at arenas and amphitheaters across North America. Run the Jewels will open all of the shows. Check out Wu-Tang Clan’s full list of tour dates below. Pitchfork has asked the group’s…
The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our…
Amsterdam-based electronic producer Nazar has announced his first new album in five years. Demilitarize, the follow-up to Guerrilla, will arrive on April 25 via Hyperdub. Today, the Angolan musician has shared the lead single “Anticipate,” which you can listen to below. “With the album being introspective, I didn’t seek to capture sounds from real places…
Avalon Emerson has shared a cover of Oppenheimer Analysis “Don’t Be Seen With Me,” which marks both her signing to Dead Oceans and the launch of a new singles series, Perpetual Emotion Machine. Listen to the track below, and check out her full list of upcoming tour dates. In a press release, Emerson said of…
Bill Fay, the cult British singer-songwriter who experienced a late-in-life career revival, has died, according to a statement from his label, Dead Oceans. “Bill was a gentle man and a gentleman, wise beyond our times,” it reads. “He was a private person with the biggest of hearts, who wrote immensely moving, meaningful songs that will…
Mandy, Indiana producer and guitarist Scott Fair has shared the debut single from a new project called Set Dressing. Listen to “Class Valedictorian” below. Set Dressing is signed to Fire Talk, the label behind Mandy, Indiana’s 2023 debut, I’ve Seen a Way. The project is framed, in a press release, as an anonymous extension of…
Big Thief drummer and producer James Krivchenia is releasing a new experimental solo album. The musician worked on Performing Belief with electric bassist Sam Wilkes and double bassist and multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams. Below, listen to Krivchenia’s new song with Wilkes, “Probably Wizards.” Performing Belief is out May 2 via Planet Mu. The new album incorporates…
Kim Deal has enlisted Richard Ayoade to direct and star in the video for Nobody Loves You More track “Big Ben Beat.” The recursive short film also features looped and fragmented scenes involving Deal, Savages’ Fay Milton, and Ayoade’s own family. Watch it go down below. Ayoade, who directed the Breeders’ “Spacewoman,” back in 2018,…
Hurray for the Riff Raff has announced a tour of North America, extending a run of dates that starts this month with Alynda Segarra and the band’s support dates with Bright Eyes. The new shows kick off in May with support from Merce Lemon, before a final stint in the summer. With the news comes…
