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8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Arooj Aftab, Bat for Lashes, Belly, and More
With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Arooj Aftab, Bat for Lashes, Belly, Shaboozey, Ayra Starr, Thou, Ezra Feinberg, and Crimeapple. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)
Cardi B Joins Glorilla and Megan Thee Stallion for New “Wanna Be (Remix)”: Listen
Glorilla and Megan Thee Stallion have released a new remix of their Ehhthang Ehhthang song “Wanna Be.” The new version of the track features Cardi B. Listen to the new song below. “Wanna Be (Remix)” is the second major collaboration between Glorilla and Cardi B, following 2022’s “Tomorrow...
Charli XCX Enlists Robyn and Yung Lean for New “360” Remix: Listen
Charli XCX has shared a new remix of her recent single “360,” bringing along the Swedish phenoms Robyn and Yung Lean. Check it out below. “360,” the fourth single from Brat, follows “Von Dutch,” “Club Classics,” and “B2B.” The song came with a video uniting a committee of “hot internet girls,” Julia Fox, Chloë Sevigny, Rachel Sennott, and Hari Nef among them. The new album arrives on June 7. Charli XCX has also announced a fall tour with Troye Sivan.
Eminem Throws Back to His Most Iconic Moments in Video for New Song “Houdini”: Watch
Eminem has released his much-teased new song “Houdini,” and it comes with a music video directed by Rich Lee. Both the track and visual call back to Eminem’s 2002 hit “Without Me.” The clip has cameos from Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Pete Davidson, comedian Shane Gillis, and others. It also finds Eminem donning his Robin costume from the “Without Me” video. Plus, there are wannabe Slim Shadys, calling back to the rapper’s 2000 MTV Video Music Awards performance. Watch “Houdini” below.
Night Reign
It isn’t easy to say something new with “Autumn Leaves.” The 1945 torch song is surely one of the most performed standards in the jazz repertoire, not only by the likes of Miles Davis and Nat King Cole, but also by the beginners taking lessons in the back rooms of your local store music store: sitting down at a piano to play its wistful minor-key melody is a bit like the jazz version of picking up an electric guitar and going straight for “Smoke on the Water.” Putting your rendition on a new album in 2024 is either a conservative move or a bold one. For Arooj Aftab, the Brooklyn-via-Lahore singer and composer who moves freely between jazz, folk, and Hindustani and Western classical music, it is decidedly the latter.
Vince Staples Gets Netflix Show Renewed for Second Season
Vince Staples’ Netflix series, The Vince Staples Show, is coming back for a second season. “The Vince Staples Show is back!” Staples exclaimed in a statement to Tudum.com. “The people have spoken and the most riveting, captivating, and polarizing show on Netflix is returning for Season 2. Get ready for hijinks that only a mother can love. Thank you, Netflix!”
Primavera Sound 2024 Amazon Music Livestream Schedule & Details
Primavera Sound began yesterday (Wednesday, May 29) at Barcelona’s Parc del Fòrum and continues through Sunday, June 2. Today, the official festival livestream launches with Amazon Music. A number of acts will have their sets broadcast on Prime Video and Twitch. The livestream, which runs through Saturday, begins each day at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
Charly Bliss Announce Tour, Share Video for New Song “Calling You Out”: Watch
Charly Bliss have announced a headlining tour of North America in support of their upcoming album, Forever. They’ve also shared the new song “Calling You Out” with a music video directed by Adam Kolodny. In it, each band member takes turns posing and performing in front of a fish-eye lens, an intentional nod to both Beastie Boys’ “Shake Your Rump” music video and Wong Kar-wai’s 1995 film Fallen Angels. Watch it below.
Dark Times
Vince Staples is not the rapper you come to for lyrical acrobatics. His bars are stark, jumping between straightforward recountings of gang-related violence and bits of dry humor fit for a Mitch Hedberg set. Both also extend into his presence as one of the rap internet’s favorite talking heads; he can turn an explanation of why he doesn’t share his home address with his closest friends into a hilarious exchange—until you stop to think about what exactly makes him so guarded. This candor helps his stories, jokes, and his recent Coen Brothers-indebted Netflix series, The Vince Staples Show, stick to the ribs.
Clairo Announces New York and Los Angeles Concerts
Clairo will play a handful of concerts in Los Angeles and New York in support of her third studio album, Charm. The singer-songwriter’s California residency is at the Fonda Theatre, and her New York residency will take place at Webster Hall. See Clairo’s tour dates below. Charm is...
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Share New Song “Frogs”: Listen
After sharing the Wild God title song in March, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds are back with another single from the new album. The track, “Frogs,” was one of the first songs that Nick Cave wrote for his album, and it includes allusions to the biblical story of Cain and Abel. Listen to “Frogs” below.
Hovvdy to Join Beabadoobee on North American Tour
Beabadoobee has announced a North American tour in support of new album This Is How Tomorrow Moves. The September run features support from Austin, Texas, duo Hovvdy. See the upcoming tour dates below. Hovvdy will be performing in support of their new self-titled album, which landed back in April. This...
Max Richter Announces Tour and Album, Shares New Song: Listen
The composer and pianist Max Richter has announced the new album In a Landscape, set for release on September 6, via Decca. The first preview of the album is “Movement, Before All Flowers,” which you can hear below. Richter is playing a bunch of concerts in support of...
Wilco Announce New Hot Sun Cool Shroud EP
Wilco have announced a new EP called Hot Sun Cool Shroud, and they plan on releasing it just in time for Solid Sound Festival, their recurring event at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts. The EP is out digitally June 28 via dBpm Records. Festival attendees can purchased a unique white vinyl pressing in person and design their own cover art using ink stamps that replicate artist Kathleen Ryan’s designs. Check out the EP tracklist, and an example of the artwork, below.
Balance and Composure Announce Tour and First Album in 8 Years, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Balance and Composure have announced their first new album in eight years: With You in Spirit arrives October 4 via Memory Music. The follow-up to 2016’s Light We Made features the new single “Cross to Bear,” which you can check out below. Produced by Will Yip, With...
Watch Mabe Fratti’s Video for New Song “Enfrente”
On June 28, Mabe Fratti will release the new album Sentir Que No Sabes. She’s already shared the LP’s “Kravitz” and “Pantalla azul,” and, now, she’s released the music video for the single “Enfrente.” The video, directed by José Ostos and Ana Drucker, features Fratti, Edwin Mensah, and Timi Adisa. Watch it below.
The Fool
Here’s an incomplete cast of characters that populate The Fool, Young Jesus’ provocative seventh album: a pair of washed-up outlaws, an elderly man entirely reliant on his children, a doctor who gets caught creeping on his patient’s social media, and, on “MOTY,” a menagerie of garden variety misogynists, hypocrites, and insecure momma’s boys fronting as alpha males. Oh, and the person who gets lost in their memories of being abused as a child and comes to, decades later, standing over a dog they’ve just beaten.
Sewaside III
Mike Shabb has been a secret weapon in Montreal’s rap scene for years. Rather than turning out other staple sounds of the city—the danceable electro funk of Kaytranada or Planet Giza, the industrial and metal-tinged catharsis of Zambian transplant Backxwash—Shabb leans toward the new-age formalism of producer Nicholas Craven and rappers like Chung. He started out making trap around 2017, but he was also a fan of the classic boom-bap and airy, drumless loops that still define certain corners of underground hip-hop. After connecting with Griselda affiliate Craven, Shabb worked to refine his diverse sounds, dropping vibey turn-up joints like 2021’s Quarantine Flow and 2023’s Hood Olympics while doing ad hoc engineering for Boldy James and earning multiple beat placements on Westside Gunn’s 10.
Spotify to Brick Its Own “Car Thing” Device, Won’t Offer Refunds
In 2021, Spotify launched Car Thing, making the product available in the United States the following year. The device was described as “a new smart player that fills your car with music, news, entertainment, talk, and more.” The product is now being discontinued and will cease to be operational. The Car Thing expires on Monday, December 9, 2024.
Wu-Tang Clan’s Rare Album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin to Be Played at Australian Art Museum
Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, the Wu-Tang Clan album whose sole copy was purchased by Martin Shkreli in 2015 and later resold at auction, will receive its first public playbacks at listening events next month. The series takes place at Australia’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) as part of its Namedropping exhibition. In addition to listening events for a 30-minute excerpt of the album, the physical record, housed in a silver box, will be on display.
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