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Escape at Your Own Pace
The shredders of Tomb Mold seem intent on being anything but straight-ahead death-metal musicians. Since establishing their main outfit as one of the beastliest OSDM groups in recent memory, each member has stretched their tentacles further outward. In Dream Unending, guitarist Derrick Vella has embraced heavenly post-rock guitar tones and slowed his riffs to a luminescent crawl, while Tomb Mold’s latest album, The Enduring Spirit, is less a sludgy beatdown than a skyward journey into chorus-pedal-fueled prog. Payson Power and Max Klebanoff, now two EPs into their Daydream Plus side project, have ditched the distortion and devil horns altogether for a breezy fusion of smooth jazz and math rock.
2 Live Crew Rapper Brother Marquis Dies at 58
Mark D. Ross, best known as the rapper Brother Marquis in 2 Live Crew, has died, according to a social media post by the group and a report from TMZ. “Mark Ross AKA Brother Marquis of the 2 Live crew has went to the upper room,” 2 Live Crew wrote on Instagram. He was 58.
Vince Staples Announces North American Tour Dates
Fresh off the release of his new album and the renewal of his Netflix series, Vince Staples has announced an autumn tour of North America. Joining Staples as a special guest on the Black in America Tour is singer, songwriter, and producer Baby Rose. See Staples’ tour dates below.
Sabrina Carpenter Announces New Album Short n’ Sweet
Sabrina Carpenter has announced a new album. Short n’ Sweet, the pop singer’s sixth studio album, arrives August 23, via Island Records. Carpenter, who released the album’s lead single, “Espresso,” back in April, has also said that a new single from the LP will be released later this week. Check out the Short n’ Sweet album art below.
Pixies Share First Songs With New Bassist Emma Richardson: Listen
Pixies have shared the new song “You’re So Impatient” and a cover of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans’ “Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be).” They’re the first tracks with new bassist Emma Richardson. Listen to the songs below. In a press...
Primavera Sound 2024 Recap: The Best of Barcelona
Big festivals like Primavera Sound ought to feel more like going to the opera: We could wear elbow-length gloves like Amaarae, who styled them with a striped jersey as she did a Spanish guitar version of “Reckless & Sweet.” Or we could carry binoculars, like the Troye Sivan fan with the neon green hair and the personal singalong microphone. Embrace the majesty!
Pitchfork Music Festival London 2024 Adds Second Wave of Artists
Pitchfork Music Festival London is just about fourth months away. Today, Pitchfork is happy to reveal new artists added to the 2024 lineup. Joining the festival are Yasmin Williams, Keeley Forsyth, Alice Glass, Black Midi’s Geordie Greep, Hannah Frances, Wishy, and more. Plus, Jessica Pratt, Low’s Alan Sparhawk, Charly Bliss, Aziya, and Meagre Martin will play newly announced events. See the latest Pitchfork Music Festival London lineup below; new additions are denoted with an asterisk.
Caribou Announces Tour, Shares New Song “Broke My Heart”: Listen
Caribou is back with another new song, plus news of a tour that extends into next year. “Broke My Heart” follows April’s single “Honey.” “I always find it hard to believe those ‘it came to me in a dream’ stories about songs arriving fully formed, but this one was pretty close to that, which is not how it usually goes for me,” said Dan Snaith. “I sat down at a piano one day and the string riff was just there at my fingertips and the vocal melody followed right behind it.” Listen to it below.
Radiohead and the Smile’s Thom Yorke Announces Solo Tour Dates
Thom Yorke has announced a solo tour that takes place in October and November. In a statement, the Radiohead and Smile frontman stated, “In the autumn in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Japan I will be alone on stage trying a new kind of solo show thing playing versions of the songs I have written from my recent and not so recent past.” See Yorke’s tour dates below.
Charli XCX, Nourished by Time, NewJeans, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
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 our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff’s favorite new music. The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its only guiding principle is that these are the songs you’d gladly send to a friend.
Cyndi Lauper Announces Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour
Cyndi Lauper has announced a farewell tour. Getting its name from the breakout hit on her 1983 debut, She’s So Unusual, the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour kicks off October 18 in Montreal, Quebec, and lasts on through December 5 in Chicago, Illinois. Check out the Lauper’s tour dates below.
Umbilical
Thou have always reveled in misanthropy. Onstage, the band might antagonize a disengaged audience by taunting them, or turning around and ignoring them. In lyric sheets, they paint humankind as a failed endeavor, once full of potential for good but chronically unable to pry itself from pitfalls as old as civilization itself. This outright disdain is one of the few things that Thou will cop to sharing with the Louisiana sludge-metal forebears, like Eyehategod and Crowbar, to whom they’re frequently compared.
In Sexyy We Trust
If you were hoping that the filthy, horny, sex-fueled shenanigans of Sexyy Red would forever be stuck in the summer of 2023, I have bad news for you. She’s got another one with In Sexyy We Trust. Sure, last year’s Hood Hottest Princess (damn-near all bangers) can’t be replicated, as part of the appeal was getting caught off guard and going from Oh, that song where she goes “My bootyhole is brown” is funny to Hold up, did she just drop one of the great rap mixtapes of the year? basically overnight. It was such a polarizing sensation that I wouldn’t have been surprised if her follow-up scaled up too much, in a quest to prove that Hood Hottest Princess wasn’t a flash in the pan. But thankfully, Sexyy does not give a fuck. You’re gonna’ get homages to Gucci Mane and Chief Keef, graphic sex jokes and puns, and vulgar-ass quotables required to be shouted anytime you have a drop of alcohol in your system.
Megan Thee Stallion Announces New Album Megan
Megan Thee Stallion announced her new album and its upcoming release date while performing in Atlanta tonight as part of her ongoing Hot Girl Summer Tour. The follow-up to 2022’s Traumazine is titled Megan, and it arrives on June 28, via Hot Girl Productions. The rapper previously described her upcoming LP as being about a “rebirth,” taking inspiration from snakes because of how they shed their skin to evolve. Check out the album’s cover artwork below.
She’s So Unusual
As Cyndi Lauper leaped around singing “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” on The Tonight Show in 1984, it seemed like she might never put down the microphone. After she kicked off her stilettos, danced with her backup singers, sprinted back and forth repeatedly from the monitors at the front of the stage to the drum kit in the rear, and belted out the final refrain enough times to ensure that every spectator would be singing it for the rest of the day, the song only ended with the musicians stumbling one by one to a halt: some of them ready to wrap up, and others apparently willing to continue accompanying Lauper until the end of time.
Insurrection
Hell is real, Suicide often seemed to suggest, and it sounds like an anguished Elvis Presley gurgling for dear life, half-submerged in raucous, reverbed waters. For a good amount of his time on Earth, Alan Vega was drowning, too. Long before he was Suicide’s vocalist, he braved a bleak version of New York, sleeping on sidewalks and subsisting on one-dollar tuna sandwiches. He saw the potential of expression to pierce through his oft-barren reality—an itch that led him to the gallery, then the studio, then the No Wave circuit, then the nightmares of innocent concertgoers. (Come for the music, stay for the masochism: If you were lucky, the sharp object he used to slash his chest could have been your shattered wine glass!) As Alan Suicide, a short-lived moniker that preceded his musical career, he exhibited garish pile-ups of light bulbs and wires, like Rudolf Schwarzkogler pieces sans the corpse. The music he made as a solo act felt similar in effect: hazy hellscapes that combined styles like ’50s rockabilly and ’80s synth pop into concoctions that loomed in your head, often for reasons you couldn’t put a finger on.
Jennifer Lopez Cancels Tour Less Than One Month Before Kickoff
Jennifer Lopez is canceling her tour in support of new album This Is Me...Now. The tour was scheduled to begin on Wednesday, June 26, at the Kia Center in Orlando, Florida. In a statement, Lopez called the cancellation “absolutely necessary,” and representatives for Live Nation Entertainment said the singer “is taking time off to be with her children, family and close friends.” See both statements below.
LCD Soundsystem Announce Los Angeles Concert Residencies
LCD Soundsystem just wrapped up a tour of North America, and the James Murphy band has now announced residencies at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall and Hollywood Palladium. The concerts take place in the autumn. See LCD Soundsystem’s tour dates below. LCD Soundsystem last held court...
Beastie Boys Announce 30th Anniversary Ill Communication Vinyl Reissue
Beastie Boys’ classic 1994 album, Ill Communication, is getting a special deluxe edition reissue on vinyl to celebrate its 30th anniversary. The remastered 3xLP set resurrects a rare version of Ill Communication that was originally released as a limited run in 2009. It includes 12 bonus tracks—including rarities, a live version of Check your Head’s “The Maestro,” B-sides, and remixes—as well as lenticular cover art, a slipcase, and more. Beastie Boys are also releasing a limited-edition cassette version, marking the first time in decades that Ill Communication is available in that format. Check out the full tracklist below.
Meshell Ndegeocello Announces James Baldwin Tribute Album, Shares New Songs: Listen
Meshell Ndegeocello has announced her second album for Blue Note Records. The new album is a tribute to James Baldwin and will be released on the 100th anniversary of the iconic author’s birth, August 2. Below, listen to the first two singles from the album, “Travel” and “Raise the Roof.”
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