Geese’s new album Getting Killed is undoubtedly awesome, but in this economy, you don’t become the buzziest band in Brooklyn just by putting out an awesome album. Amid the Getting Killed hype, Cameron Winter and company have also earned a reputation for their covers over the past few months, whether they’re doing a Springsteen hit…
Kicking yourself. That’s usually the feeling. When you finally sit down with an album that changes your life, you think “Why wasn’t I listening to this the whole time?” So many wasted hours of not hearing the harmonies of early-era Bee Gees, or the otherworldly inventive sounds of Os Mutantes, or the genre-defining sampledelic grooves…
Reselling tickets for more than face value will be made illegal in the United Kingdom, The Guardian and BBC report. Set to be announced this week, the plans will make good on the Labour Party’s 2024 election pledge to crack down on touting, amid the debate over rising concert ticket fees. Platforms reselling face-value tickets…
Over the weekend, we learned that fast-rising Dijon will make his Saturday Night Live debut on the show’s next episode, serving as musical guest while old favorite Melissa McCarthy hosts for the second time. Today, SNL announced the hosts and musical guests for the last two episodes of the year, and they’ll feature some big…
Animal Collective have released Jetty (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), an album of music that the band’s Deakin and Geologist composed for a new documentary about the reconstruction of Rockaway Beach after its destruction by Hurricane Sandy. Watch a clip from the film, set to “Boardwalk” from the album, below, and scroll down for the album….
Billy Hart doesn’t like the term jazz. Throughout his recently published autobiography, Oceans Of Time, he uses the phrase “America’s classical music.” And, I mean, if anybody’s earned the right to define their music on their own terms, it’s Billy Hart. Hart will be 85 at the end of this month, and his name appears…
Right now, Pitchfork’s editors are furiously debating the ranking of our year-end best albums and songs lists, which we’ll be bringing to you soon. But first, we’d like to invite you to share your picks. Today, we’re opening the 2025 Readers’ Poll. Which albums and songs were your favorite? Tell us below. To make sure…
Hey, here’s something cool! Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman are two musical entities who make perfect sense together. Lenderman was part of the studio band on Waxahatchee’s excellent 2024 album Tigers Blood, and the two of them sang the gorgeous duet “Right Back To It” together. Just a few weeks ago, we got the surprise self-titled…
Lily Allen, Ariana Grande, and Cher are all set to appear on upcoming episodes of Saturday Night Live. Fresh off the release of her new album, West End Girl, Allen will serve as musical guest for the first time since 2007 on December 13, opposite host Josh O’Connor. The following week, Grande hosts for the…
Gay Meat: Not necessarily a band name you want to go around recommending to people willy-nilly, but music worth recommending nonetheless. Ex-Museum Mouth frontman Karl Kuehn has been releasing catchy, pensive, emo-leaning indie rock under the moniker for a while, and now he’s got a new label home at Skeletal Lightning, who are releasing Gay…
