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The Knife’s Olof Dreijer Remixes Björk and Rosalía’s “Oral”: Listen
The Knife’s Olof Dreijer has remixed Björk and Rosalía’s “Oral,” the song the pair released in November to support the fight against environmentally unsound salmon-farming operations in Iceland. Listen to Dreijer’s take below. Björk wrote on X, “i am so extremely thrilled that...
A LA SALA
In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Khruangbin released their third studio album, Mordechai, a disco-funk reprieve with the unusual, yet welcome, addition of vocals from bassist Laura Lee. Four years later, the trio returns with the stripped-down A LA SALA, a stark change in direction and scale from their last few albums. Khruangbin have always drawn inspiration from genres that span the globe and transport the listener to its far-flung corners. This time around, they squeeze all those influences into a universally beloved place: home.
FearDorian
FearDorian beats are potent enough to leave you with a contact high. Their enveloping chaos feels structured, as if you synced playback on two completely different songs until they formed an alien vibe of their own. Like his stylistic forebears-turned-collaborators in Surf Gang—Dorian used to make dance videos set to the collective’s songs on Triller—rap, indie rock, and vaporwave are clear influences. Bending those sounds into different shapes and sizes is the 17-year-old rapper-producer’s default zone. This is a kid who’s sampled Amy Winehouse for a Milwaukee rap track, who pulls as much inspiration from Midwest emo records and James Ferraro as he does from Chicago rapper-producer Lucki. Take the droning guitars and booming trap drums that power Seattle rapper Ghoulaveli’s 2019 single “no!,” or how the addition of twinkling strings to the synthetic claps on AyooLii’s “Andele” makes it just a bit zanier. Dorian’s production reflects the borderless imagination of the postmodern rap internet while remaining solid enough to not dissolve in its own haze.
Watch Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie à Deux’s First Trailer
The first trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux, the Joker sequel starring Lady Gaga opposite Joaquin Phoenix, arrived today. The clip shows Phoenix’s Joker and Gaga’s Harley Quinn meeting in Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum. Check it out below, ahead of the film’s release on Friday, October 4, 2024.
Coachella 2024 Lineup & Schedule: All the Set Times You Need to Know
The first weekend of the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival begins in Indio, California, on Friday, April 12. With just a few days until kickoff, the complete schedule has been revealed. See the stage and set time breakdown below. Lana Del Rey, Tyler, the Creator, and Doja Cat...
Might Delete Later
Evidently, J. Cole is not the kind of rapper he would like to be. Since the beginning of his career at the peak of the blog era, the North Carolina native has staked his reputation on being an out-and-out, bar-for-bar rapper’s rapper, the model for the genre, the control in the experiment. Though a talented singer with a pliable voice, he’s always been reverent (sometimes to a fault) of legends from the 1990s and early 2000s, writing about his life in long, mythic arcs and dotting his albums with radio singles that are anchored by neuroses and character details seeded on his earliest mixtapes. He delivers all of this in a manner designed to clear space for determined bursts of setup-punchline showmanship—a magnetic mode if you can hack it. Cole often cannot.
Fuerza Regida Announce U.S. Arena Tour
Fuerza Regida have announced a U.S. arena tour. The Pero No Te Anamores Tour begins in June and stretches into November. See the band’s tour dates below. Fuerza Regida released their latest album, Pa las Baby’s y Belikeada, in October. For Pitchfork’s “The Best Music by Latine and Spanish Artists in 2023,” Julianne Escobedo Shepherd called the album “a 30-song sierreño epic detailing a seedy millennial underworld of parties inside compounds with armed guards, high-stakes gamblers, and babes with big asses.”
Outkast’s André 3000, Kamasi Washington, Laufey, and More to Perform at Newport Jazz Festival 2024
Seventy years after its inaugural edition, the Newport Jazz Festival is back for a weekend in Rhode Island this summer. Performing at the festival, which takes place from August 2 to 4 at Fort Adams State Park, are André 3000, Kamasi Washington, Laufey, Elvis Costello, Brittany Howard, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Meshell Ndegeocello, Makaya McCraven, Kassa Overall, Samara Joy, Robert Glasper, Shabaka, PJ Morton, Noname, Amaro Freitas, and many others. See the full lineup in the poster below.
The Roots Announce U.S. Tour With Arrested Development and Digable Planets
The Roots will tour with Arrested Development and Digable Planets this summer. The groups will all appear at the Roots’ inaugural Los Angeles edition of Roots Picnic, which, like the tour, is subtitled Hip-Hop Is the Love of My Life. The U.S. jaunt begins in earnest in August in Houston, Texas in August, and wraps two weeks later in Boston, Massachusetts. Check out the itinerary below.
Kathleen Hanna Taps Molly Ringwald, Amy Poehler, and More as Book Tour Moderators
Kathleen Hanna’s memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, is out April 14, and, today, the Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, and the Julie Ruin frontperson has announced an illustrious moderator lineup for the book tour. Molly Ringwald, Amy Poehler, former Pitchfork editor-in-chief Puja Patel, and the poet and music writer Hanif Abdurraqib will each moderate a stop, with Lindy West, Brontez Purnell, Mira Jacob, Fabi Reyna, Imani Perry, and Hari Kondabalou taking the reins elsewhere.
Watch Tyla Perform “Art” on Colbert
Tyla made her debut appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night. The South African R&B and amapiano singer performed “Art,” taken from the self-titled debut album she released last month, with a troupe of dancers. Check it out below. Tyla launched into her album promotion...
Pandora
No one can tear TikTok scrollers away from their cherished dust bunny shoegaze—not fatigue, not the U.S. Senate. Gen Z loves the ashen ’90s rock subgenre as dearly as a worn pair of Uggs, and through TikTok, they’ve helped facilitate its contemporary revival. But if every teen were suited to spreading the good word, there’d be fewer paintings of Joan of Arc. Not everyone can have the reach of 19-year-old Natalie Lu, known as Wisp, whose 2023 debut single “Your face” led to thousands of TikTok plays and, now, Interscope releasing her first EP, Pandora.
We Belong
On his new album, Ahmed Gallab, the Sudanese-born, New York-based multi-instrumentalist behind Sinkane, embodies the sense of deep pain and great joy that powers the sound of Black liberation. From the earliest spirituals to the first civil rights songs, the uplifting power of gospel to the cathartic energy of funk, Black music resonates with this profound duality, serving as a fundamental tool of resistance—a loud, proud refusal to comply with the expectations of a world that seeks to oppress. On We Belong, Sinkane uphold this legacy, smashing through constraints with revolutionary exuberance. The fact that so many civil rights anthems remain as relevant today as they were in the 1960s could be cause for sorrow, but Gallab chooses to celebrate the beauty in the struggle—most of all, the role of community and togetherness in driving it forward.
The Great Fire of Beatenberg
There was an admission implicit in the title of the South African trio Beatenberg’s 2022 EP On the way to Beatenberg: The group had yet to arrive at a sound. Over 19 minutes, they experimented with baroque guitar and Auto-Tune; they flirted with EDM uplift and Balearic haze. But Beatenberg’s core remained indie pop, refracted through guitarist and lead singer Matthew Field’s lifelong love of maskandi and mbaqanga. Their serene rumbas can make the group’s music feel out of time, not just in America (where a dusty mental shelf might hold them alongside Dirty Projectors, Paul Simon, and Vampire Weekend) but also at home, where amapiano and its many varieties are the hot pop export. When Beatenberg dabble in dance, it’s generally to add Zulu folk flavor to someone else’s production. A decade ago, they collaborated with fellow countryman DJ Clock on the tropical-house smash “Pluto (I Remember You).” In 2021, Beatenburg popped up on RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE—the continent-spanning collaboration between producers Scorpion Kings and Tresor—to get pensive on the Afropiano song “Dust in the Wind.”
Keith LeBlanc, Drummer on Grandmaster Flash and Sugarhill Gang Songs, Dies at 69
Keith LeBlanc, the Tackhead drummer, producer, and session musician best known for his work on classic hip-hop songs by Grandmaster Flash and Sugarhill Gang, died on Thursday (April 4) due to an undisclosed illness, his wife Fran LeBlanc told Variety. He was 69. “All of us at On-U Sound are...
Watch Mandy, Indiana’s New “Idea Is Best” Video
Mandy, Indiana are following their 2023 debut, I’ve Seen a Way, with a new single. The new track, “Idea Is Best,” arrives with a music video featuring live footage of the band, filmed at Hitness Club and edited by Harry Steel. Watch it below. On Sunday, April...
Billie Eilish Announces New Album Hit Me Hard and Soft: Watch the Trailer
Billie Eilish has officially announced her long-teased third studio album. The new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, is out May 17 via Darkroom and Interscope. Watch a trailer for the LP below. Scroll down for the album artwork. Eilish wrote Hit Me Hard and Soft with her brother, Finneas,...
Caribou Shares Video for New Song “Honey”: Watch
Dan Snaith is returning to his Caribou moniker for his first new music in nearly three years. “Honey” is a dancefloor-ready single that comes with a trippy music video directed by Richard Kenworthy. In the clip, viewers travel through a series of flamingo photographs in a never-ending optical illusion. Watch the song’s video below.
Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier Announces Debut Solo Album, Shares Video for New Song: Watch
Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier has announced his debut solo album: We Sang, Therefore We Were arrives on April 26 via Joyful Noise. Saunier has shared the new LP’s lead single, “Grow Like a Plant,” on which he handles vocals, guitar, and bass over the exact type of maniacal drum work on which he’s built his name. The song comes with a music video featuring dancer Sophie Daws moving along to the beat in a wig; watch it below.
Anitta to Tour North American for the First Time
Anitta has announced her first tour of North America. The Brazilian superstar’s Baile Funk Experience Tour will come to Los Angeles on May 21 and stop in Brooklyn, Chicago, and other cities. Dates in South America and Europe are also on the calendar; check out the itinerary below. Anitta’s...
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