Indie-pop quintet Heavenly will pair their already-announced 2026 tour with a new album, their first since 1996’s Operation Heavenly. The band—original members Amelia Fletcher, Cathy Rogers, Peter Momtchiloff, and Rob Pursey, plus new drummer Ian Button— recorded Highway to Heavenly with producer Toby Burroughs. It will be released on February 27 via Fletcher and Pursey’s…
DJ Seinfeld just came steaming into 2026. The Swedish DJ/producer and lo-fi house leading light has given official release to “Plush,” a single that’s been part of his live sets for a while now. Streaked with an array of synth hooks and a wispy vocal melody, the track’s main attraction is an intensely energized four-on-the-floor…
Universal Music Group has signed the latest in a string of contentious deals between major labels and artificial intelligence companies, this time partnering with the chipmaking tech giant Nvidia. The deal opens Universal’s enormous catalog to the world’s most valuable company: Nvidia will use its AI infrastructure to develop new ways to make, discover, and…
In 2023, Final Gasp released their debut full-length Mourning Moon. The Boston rockers are back today with the announcement of its followup, New Day Symptoms. The electrifying lead single “The Apparition” is out now. About “The Apparition,” frontman Jake Murphy explains: A story of reality being much more horrifying than fiction. It’s about a captain…
Our 2025 year-end coverage ends with the top 10 albums of the year as voted on by the AllMusic community. Respondents from all around the world made their choices, and we’re excited to share the top 10 results as voted by you, the AllMusic reader. Thanks again for reading and supporting AllMusic in 2025, and…
Waxahatchee leader Katie Crutchfield and her twin sister and Snocaps bandmate Allison share a birthday with The Good Place star D’Arcy Carden. Last year, the Crutchfield sisters and Carden threw themselves a joint birthday party at the LA venue Largo, and the resulting concert included surprise guests like Jeff Tweedy, Courtney Barnett, and Will Forte….
Over the weekend Donald Trump launched a military raid on Venezuela that involved bombing the capital city Caracas and capturing President Nicolás Maduro. The country’s controversial leader is set to be arraigned on drug trafficking charges here in the US, but Trump has also announced plans to move major American oil companies into Venezuela and…
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…
People just love covering Leonard Cohen, and it makes sense. You can convince yourself that you’re cool just by singing along with Cohen. Cohen was never a lights-out vocalist, so there’s always a chance that you can do something new with the topline, even if you’ll never approach Cohen’s presence. Cohen’s sultry, slinky, vaguely sleazy…
The evidence keeps piling up: Despite numerous delays and false starts, A$AP Rocky’s Testing follow-up, Don’t Be Dumb, might really be released on January 16. The latest cut from the record is “Punk Rocky,” a song with an overdriven dream-pop riff and a video starring Winona Ryder as Rocky’s suburban neighbor. The rapper is credited…
