[ad_1] Pa Salieu is back: Watch the Earthboi-directed video for his first single in two years, “Belly,” below. His longtime collaborators Felix Joseph and AoD produced the track. Pa Salieu released his last song, the Mura Masa and Skillibeng collaboration “Blessing Me,” in May 2022, a few months before his imprisonment for violent disorder and […]

[ad_1] Danny Elfman was sued, last year, by a woman who claimed that the composer sexually abused her between 1997 and 2002. The lawsuit has now been dismissed, Rolling Stone reports. In court documents, viewed by Pitchfork, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lisa K. Sepe-Wiesenfeld ruled in favor of Elfman and his company, Musica […]

[ad_1] Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian singer, composer, bandleader, and keyboardist who became an international sensation after moving to the United States in the 1960s, died, in Los Angeles, on September 5. According to a statement from the Mendes family, the musician’s “health had been challenged by the effects of long term COVID.” Mendes was 83 […]

[ad_1] Country veteran Dwight Yoakam has enlisted Post Malone for his first piece of new music in nine years. “I Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom)” leads the Kentucky-born singer-songwriter’s forthcoming studio album, Brighter Days—out November 15. Yoakam wrote the new song specifically for a duet with Post Malone, who recently […]

[ad_1] Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds have announced a spring 2025 tour of North America. The concerts take place in April and May, and they’ll mark the first time since 2018 that the band has performed in the United States and Canada. (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, like many acts, had to cancel […]

[ad_1] Midland will release his debut studio album, on October 4, after more than a decade releasing singles and EPs that helped establish him among the United Kingdom’s leading underground DJs and producers. Fragments of Us, released via his own label, Graded, is an “homage to and celebration of the gift of otherness and the […]

[ad_1] Spotify is not liable to pay vast unpaid royalties—some $40 million—owed to Eminem’s publisher, despite failing to secure the proper license for hosting his songs, a federal judge in Tennessee has ruled. Concluding a high-profile copyright infringement case that could have gone to the Supreme Court, the judge accepted Spotify’s claim that royalty collector […]

[ad_1] Sleater-Kinney have announced an expanded version of their new album, Little Rope, roughly half a year after its release. Little Rope (Deluxe) comes out October 4 via Loma Vista. With this news comes the brand new song “Here Today” and its music video created by activist art collective In Decline. In black-and-white footage, the […]

[ad_1] Objekt is launching his own record label, Kapsela, which will release a new EP called Chicken Garaage from the Berlin-based producer this year. Before that, on October 4, the label will reissue Objekt’s song “Ganzfeld”—initially the B-side of the split single “Hypnagogia” with Dopplereffekt—for its 10th anniversary, backed by remixes from Piezo, Djrum, and […]

[ad_1] 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 […]