New Zealand singer-songwriter Marlon Williams has enlisted Lorde to guest on his new song. “Kāhore He Manu E” is taken from Williams’ first Māori language album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka, out April 4. The video is pulled from Ngā Ao E Rua – Two Worlds, Ursula Grace Williams’ documentary about the making of the album. Check…
Pitchfork and AdHoc Projects are happy to announce a live event to celebrate the release of a new zine. The event takes place on Tuesday, March 4, at 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, at New York’s Printed Matter. The event is free, and the zine will be available for purchase exclusively at Printed Matter. RSVP…
Last summer, I joined Pitchfork as its new editor from the world of 2020s independent music blogging. It is an unglamorous world, but one I’m deeply fond of, all janky websites and Substack newsletters. It is where a lot of terrible, unedited writing is happening, but also where some of the most vital and urgent…
The Rilo Kiley reunion continues apace. Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre de Reeder, and Jason Boesel have added more dates to their headlining reunion tour. The newly announced shows take place in September. See all of Rilo Kiley’s tour dates below. Along with the tour news, Rilo Kiley have announced a new greatest-hits album, That’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…
Roberta Flack, the revered singer behind soul classics including “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” died this morning (February 24), her publicists said in an email. No cause of death was given, but Flack had been living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the neurological condition also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. She was 88…
In 2014, following the dissolution of WU LYF, Ellery James Roberts launched a new band with Ebony Hoorn called LUH. The duo, which eventually became known as Lost Under Heaven, is now also breaking up. “We can never know where life will lead us, but for the foreseeable future we won’t be collaborating together anymore…
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…
