Damon Albarn has released another song from the forthcoming Gorillaz album The Mountain. The new single, “The God of Lying,” features Idles. Check it out below. Albarn wrote “The God of Lying” with Idles frontman Joe Talbot. He recorded it in London and Devon, England, and Mumbai, with bansuri player Ajay Prasanna and percussionist Viraj…
Redveil has announced a new album. Sankofa is the rapper’s full-length follow-up to 2022’s Learn 2 Swim. The self-produced record is out December 4, via Fashionably Early, and includes the recent single “Mini Me,” as well as the Smino collaboration “Brown Sugar.” Redveil has also shared a new song “Lone Star,” which features singer Carolyn…
Pitchfork Music Festival London has announced Pitchfork Talks: London Edition, an evening of live conversations with artists on the Pitchfork London lineup. The event features Pitchfork’s Head of Editorial Content, Mano Sundaresan, speaking with Nick León, and Associate Staff Writer Jazz Monroe interviewing James K, in conversations about their breakout 2025 records, which together signify…
Geese stopped by the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge to play two songs from their new album, Getting Killed. They also performed New Radicals’ 1990s classic “You Get What You Give.” Watch Geese do “100 Horses,” “Cobra,” and the New Radicals song below. Geese shared Getting Killed, their third album, in September. They have followed…
Death Grips are working on a new album. “The Writing and recording of our next album is underway,” Stefan “MC Ride” Burnett and Zach Hill shared on Instagram, along with a carousel of photos from the recording studio. “We’re looking forward to the new Death Grips record.” Death Grips have not released a new album…
Smerz have assembled an enviably chic guest list for a new companion to their May album Big City Life. Out now via Escho, Big City Life Edits features a cast of American and Scandinavian maestros including Clairo, ML Buch, Astrid Sonne, Erika de Casier, Fine, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, and, on “You…
Paula Kelley, a co-founding singer-guitarist in Boston shoegaze band Drop Nineteens and several other indie-rock acts, has announced her first solo album in 20 years. Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out is out March 27 via Wharf Cat. Lead single “Party Line” is described, by Kelley, as a “post-Cold War influenced track” that incorporates some…
We don’t have as many classical reviews we normally would this month, due to the untimely death of our primary reviewer, James Manheim. We hope to resume covering classical music again at some point. In the meantime, there are a couple of noteworthy albums for you to sample: Alexander Gergelyfi plays a clavichord owned by…
Fans of the 1975 were left puzzled this week by the disappearance from streaming services of “Human Too,” an album track from 2022’s Being Funny in a Foreign Language. Now, Matthew Healy has taken to Reddit to explain its absence: “Human Too was removed from the album so the album is more how I want…
AC/DC have added 2026 dates to their ongoing Power Up Tour. The newly announced shows take place across North and South America. See the band’s upcoming tour dates below. AC/DC have ostensibly been touring in support of their latest studio album, November 2020’s Power Up. The lineup on the tour has featured lead guitarist Angus…
