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Gulfer, Montreal Emo Band, to Break Up
Gulfer, the emo and indie-rock four-piece from Montreal, Quebec, have announced they’re breaking up. “After over a decade, Gulfer is calling it quits,” they said in a statement to Pitchfork. “Through this band, we’ve experienced some of the best moments of our lives. We got to travel the world and play to great people everywhere. But it’s time to move on and give space for new things. Thank you to everyone who listened, came out to a show, and said what’s up – we’re so grateful to all of you.”
Clairo Announces New Album Charm, Shares New Song “Sexy to Someone”: Listen
Clairo is back. The singer-songwriter has announced her third album, Charm, and shared its lead single, “Sexy to Someone.” Listen to the new song below. Charm is out July 12. Clairo has worked on each of her albums with one primary producer. She did her debut, Immunity, with...
Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster Sued by the United States
The United States Justice Department has, as suspected, sued Live Nation Entertainment, alleging that the company, which owns Ticketmaster, holds a monopoly in the concert market. The lawsuit argues that the concert giant is breaching antitrust laws through its exclusivity contracts, threats to rivals, and leveraging of market domination over artists, resulting in inflated prices and stifled competition. “It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster,” Merrick Garland, the attorney general, said in a statement.
Oasis Announce New Definitely Maybe Reissue for 30th Anniversary
Oasis are reissuing their debut studio album, Definitely Maybe, for its 30th anniversary. The new deluxe edition comes out on August 30. Featured on the release are recordings and outtakes from Wales’ Monnow Valley Studios and Cornwall’s Sawmills Studios—newly mixed by Noel Gallagher and Callum Marinho. Take a look at the tracklist below.
Tirzah Announces Rescheduled North American Tour Dates
Tirzah has announced the rescheduled dates of her Trip9love…??? tour after coming down with pneumonia just before the original run. The new dates, all in August, start with a stint in California before coming to Chicago and New York City. Check them out below. Upon canceling the dates last...
Sufjan Stevens Announces Seven Swans 20th Anniversary Reissue
Sufjan Stevens has announced a 20th anniversary deluxe edition of Seven Swans, his fourth album. It’s set to come out June 21 via Asthmatic Kitty. The expanded version of the record includes the B-sides “I Went Dancing With My Sister” and “Waste of What Your Kids Won’t Have,” marking their first appearance on the digital version of the album. Physical versions of Seven Swans (Deluxe Edition) include silver and split-colored vinyl, a zoetrope picture disc, CD, and more. See the complete tracklist below.
Please Don’t Cry
For years, Rapsody has done the exhausting work of reminding people that Black women aren’t a monolith. On 2019’s Eve, she named each song after a Black woman, using each muse to build out bespoke worlds of sounds and images. The concept subtly applied to Rapsody as well: from a prominent Uncle Luke sample, to a fun refrain about big ole butts, the North Carolina rapper chipped away at the idea that her love of lyricism is antithetical to sexuality and fun. She’d clearly heard the puritan calls to “Listen to Rapsody,” a thing goobers like to say to diminish other female rappers, and felt misrepresented.
#RICHAXXHAITIAN
Mach-Hommy has accomplished a rare form of anonymity in the digital age. He’s rarely seen without a mask or Haitian flag bandana adorning his face, plus it’s borderline impossible to find his government name online. But even in candid moments, he keeps his cards close. Mach’s virtual listening event for #RICHAXXHAITIAN, which was designed to welcome listeners into his world, felt shrouded in intentional secrecy: A pair of streams that ran the album once, with no fast-forwarding or rewinding available, no lyrics provided, and buffering and skipping to be expected. The brand of confidentiality he’s built as part of his public persona—marked by a refusal to explain himself, instead letting his knowledge and skill say it all—is akin to a tenured professor who is allergic to slowing down as they blister through lectures. Only if you engage with the material with attention and care will the image of Mach become a little clearer.
Valedictorian
Yeah, there’s another viral rap sensation. I know, this happens basically every other week, but this is our reality. Some are cool as hell; some I hope to never hear again. There will be many, many more. This one is named ian. Yes, just ian. After a few years of uploading music to SoundCloud, he blew the fuck up in early 2024 through a combination of outrage clicks and undiscerning excitement. The reason was simple: He was a white guy dressed like a frat boy on his way to his 8 a.m. finance class who made technically OK music that sounded like he was in Slayworld, the internet-famous group that once included Summrs, Autumn!, Izaya Tiji, and Yeat. Yeat is white, too, but unlike Yeat, who tried to distract from his whiteness with the questionable use of turbans and alien-speak, ian leaned into his suburban white kid schtick: vanilla outfits (white tee, sweats, slides) and a From the Block video for his breakout song “Figure It Out” shot at an outdoor lunch with his sitcom-looking real-life family, where you can spot full wine glasses, a prep school hoodie, and an American flag swaying in the wind.
Kaytranada Taps Dawn Richard, Childish Gambino, Tinashe, and More for New Album Timeless
Kaytranada has detailed the new album Timeless. The follow-up to 2019’s Bubba is out June 7 via RCA. The new album is also filled with guests: Dawn Richard, Childish Gambino, Tinashe, Ravyn Lenae, Anderson .Paak, Thundercat, PinkPantheress, Chanel Tres, Mariah the Scientist, Charlotte Day Wilson, and Lou Phelps are all on the LP. See the Timeless tracklist and album cover below.
Raveena Announces Album, Shares Video for New Song “Lucky”: Watch
Earlier this month, Raveena released “Pluto,” her first new song since 2022’s Asha’s Awakening. Today, she’s shared another new track, “Lucky,” and announced that she will release the new album Where the Butterflies Go in the Rain on June 14 via Empire. Find the new single’s music video below; scroll down for the new album’s cover.
Model/Actriz, Water From Your Eyes, and More Announced for New York Boat Show
Last year, Water From Your Eyes hosted their record release show for Everyone’s Crushed on a boat in New York. Now, the experimental art-rock duo are returning to the waves of Manhattan with a self-curated mini-festival on Thursday, July 25. It features performances by Model/Actriz, Water From Your Eyes, Kassie Krut, and DJ Practice, and costs $35 to attend. The boat will be located at the Pier 36. Find more info about the show in the poster below.
Watch Billie Eilish Perform “Lunch,” Talk Making of New Album on Colbert
Billie Eilish was the musical guest on last night’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. She performed her Hit Me Hard and Soft single “Lunch” with help from her brother, Finneas, and additional backing musicians. Eilish also joined Stephen Colbert for an extensive interview beforehand, in which the two discussed her new album, shooting the cover art, surrounding herself with music as a kid, and more. Watch it all go down below.
Sean “Diddy” Combs Faces New Sexual Assault Lawsuit
Note: This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual assault. Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sued by former model Crystal McKinney, who says he forced her to perform oral sex at his New York studio in 2003. McKinney’s lawsuit is the sixth major complaint in six months against the artist and mogul, and follows the release last week of video footage showing Diddy attacking then-girlfriend Casandra Elizabeth “Cassie” Ventura in 2016.
Bruce Springsteen Joins Joe Ely on Song From New Album: Listen
The country singer-songwriter Joe Ely has announced a new album, Driven to Drive, which arrives on August 2. Leading the LP is a new song featuring Bruce Springsteen, “Odds of the Blues.” Listen to the track below. Ely and Springsteen have performed together sporadically since the early 1990s....
To All Trains
To All Trains is a Shellac record. Expectedly, thankfully, obviously, unapologetically, unremarkably a Shellac record. A 180-gram Touch and Go Records—“made with 100% Recyclable Material which is PVC & Phthalates Free and uses 79% less CO₂ to produce”—Shellac record. Of course, the crucial difference with...
Room Under the Stairs
Zayn’s solo career has been a series of fits and starts, a product of a modern pop landscape where being a talented singer is far from enough to capture the zeitgeist. It may have been a mistake to initially define himself by what he was not: not a Simon Cowell shill, not a squeaky-clean boy band idol, not above laborious concept albums. His chosen character of the brooding, afflicted Don Juan, provocative as it may be, is not exactly unique; even the Weeknd has begun working beyond its creative limits. And with ROOM UNDER THE STAIRS, Zayn seems to be finally casting off that tried-and-tested persona, at least to an extent.
Snake
ESG, Liquid Liquid, and LCD Soundsystem; cowbells, scratchy guitars, and hi-hats—we all know how dance punk goes. But what if there was another way? This is the question that Atlanta producer Nikki Nair poses on Snake, having recently turned his attention to rethinking 2-step on his 2023 EP with Hudson Mohawke, Set the Roof.
Listen to Myaap and Yonaa’s “Choppa Sound”: The Ones
I look forward to Milwaukee lowend rapper team-ups the way some people look forward to NBA stars playing together at the Olympics. This time around it’s the 414 area’s self-proclaimed “dancing queen” Myaap with Yonaa, the sister of Certified Trapper, who has a spicier tongue than her brother but the same homemade feel. Together on “Choppa Sound,” they hop on a buckwild beat that sounds like one of those old Ching Team GarageBand instrumentals used in Milwaukee dance battles and go back and forth on turbo mode. They sound as if they were in the booth tussling over the mic to see who could get the most twerk commands out. It’s a draw.
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