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Magdalena Bay Announce Tour, Share New Song “Death & Romance”: Listen
Magdalena Bay, the experimental pop duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin, have announced a tour and shared their new song “Death & Romance.” Listen to the single below. The upcoming trek is dubbed the Imaginal Mystery Tour, and it’s slated to kick off in September. Magdalena Bay will stop in major cities along the route, including New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and more. Find their complete list of tour dates below.
Jane’s Addiction Announce First Classic Lineup Tour Since 2010
Jane’s Addiction have announced a North American tour. The shows, featuring support from the English rock band Love and Rockets, take place in August and September. See Jane’s Addictions tour dates below. The North American shows will mark the first time since 2010 that the classic Jane’s Addiction...
Beak> Surprise Release New Album >>>>: Listen
Beak>, the trio helmed by Geoff Barrow, have surprise released a new album, >>>>. It comes six years after the similarly titled >>>, preceded by no singles or promotion, as they’ve noted in a press release. “At its core we always wanted it to be head music (music for the ‘heads’, not headphone music)—listened to as an album, not as individual songs,” the group added. Listen to the new album below.
We Have Dozens of Titles
In a 1998 interview, David Grubbs once perfectly described the mysterious, impossible-sounding music he and Jim O’Rourke briefly conjured as Gastr Del Sol. “Every record saw us determined to create a different group with each song,” he said, capturing an amorphous quality running through their trio of perception-shattering albums, as well as the project’s initial debut as an entirely different group.
Searching
In the 14 years between his first and second solo albums, James Devane completely retooled both his sound and the methods he used to achive it. Where 2008’s s/t built up swirling drones from looped guitar, his 2022 follow-up, Beauty Is Useless paired dense, soupy synth strokes with techno’s taut rhythms. With the much swifter sequel Searching, it’s starting to look like Devane makes a habit of reinventing his approach on every release. Exactly how he made the music is unclear; the label vaguely notes hours of source material (presumably the artist’s own) run through custom software, and fashioned into tracks that play fast and loose with musical key, tempo, and rhythm. All that complexity appears to lie beneath an unusually simple interface: in Devane’s words, “a search button and a save button.”
Travis Scott Settles Last Remaining Astroworld Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Travis Scott, Live Nation Entertainment, and other defendants have settled the last remaining wrongful death lawsuit they were facing in the wake of the 2021 Astroworld tragedy, the Houston Chronicle reports. The lawsuit was filed by the family of Ezra Blount, the youngest victim of the crowd crush. In a statement to the Houston Chronicle, S. Scott West, an attorney for the Blount family said, “The family is happy to resolve its claim against all defendants following the death of their son, Ezra. They look forward to continuing the process of healing and never forgetting.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs Accused of Sexual Assault in Another New Lawsuit
Note: This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual assault. Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sued again by a woman who claims that he sexually assaulted her. April Lampros filed her lawsuit in a New York court yesterday (May 23). She is being represented by Tyrone A. Blackburn, the same lawyer who is representing the music producer Rodney Jones Jr. (also known as Lil Rod) in his sexual assault lawsuit against Diddy.
Drake Raps Over Metro Boomin’s “BBL Drizzy” Diss on New Sexyy Red Song: Listen
Sexyy Red has a new mixtape out today. The 14-track In Sexyy We Trust includes a new song with the St. Louis rapper’s “Rich Baby Daddy” collaborator Drake. Listen to the song, “U My Everything,” below. Tay Keith and Drumatized served as the executive producers...
7 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Vince Staples, Diiv, Shenseea, 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 Vince Staples, Diiv, Shenseea, Young Jesus, James Devane, Nathy Peluso, and Mui Zyu. 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.)
Cease-Fire Now: 16 Benefit Compilations for Palestine
More than seven months after Israel declared war in Gaza, the international movement for Palestine is gaining strength in tandem with the urgency of the humanitarian crisis. Earlier this month, rapper Macklemore declared his support for pro-Palestine campus protests with “Hind’s Hall,” a song honoring six-year-old Hind Rajab that raised money for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). He’s not the only Western musician to take a public stand recently: Big Thief’s Adrienne Lenker and Cloud Nothings’ Dylan Baldi each recorded charity solo EPs benefitting the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). And at the Camp Flog Gnaw festival in November, rapper Redveil called on fans to take political action as he displayed the names of children killed in Gaza.
Cash Cobain and J. Cole Share New Song “Grippy”: Listen
Cash Cobain continues to collaborate with big-name artists. Following the new “Fisherrr (Remix),” with Ice Spice, he’s got a new track with J. Cole called “Grippy.” Listen to the new song below. “Grippy” is a new version of Cash Cobain’s “Dunk Contest.” Cobain co-produced the...
Frog in Boiling Water
It’s been five years since DIIV’s last album—clearly, there has been some lingering tension. To set the table: After lead singer Zachary Cole Smith was arrested in 2013 for heroin possession preempting his first trip to rehab and DIIV’s former bassist Devin Ruben Perez was kicked out of the band for making racist comments on 4chan, DIIV “essentially broke up” in 2016. Then, after another stint in rehab, Smith and the band pulled it together for their last album, 2019’s Deceiver, but by this point, frustration was embedded in their dynamic.
We Could Stay
The music that opens M Wagner’s We Could Stay doesn’t fade-up as much as it lumbers into view. It carries a crackling sense of inevitability, as if you’re watching a shelf cloud advance on a city skyline. Suddenly, it’s upon you: An enormous four-chord vamp mangled by distortion and haunted vocal echoes, the song’s shimmering chimes playing around the edges. There’s a seductive elegance to the track’s destruction, like spending your final moments caught in a tornado, marveling at its power. In its last quarter, the noisy layers of “Release Yrself” fall away, leaving the softly glowing embers of a lullaby-like melody. Right when it feels light enough to drift off on the breeze, Wagner brings in a startling, stabbing trance synth, caking it with the blistering overdrive of a tape deck eating itself.
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