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About a quarter of the way into “Sweet Fire,” Sam Gendel interrupts himself with a raspy, scraping yelp. Moments before, he’d been skronking away on his C-melody saxophone, lobbing a torrent of notes into the spaces around Sam Wilkes’ bouncing bassline. Suddenly, his voice erupts, as though he’s been stung by a hornet or grabbed hold of a searing hot pan. It’s not a howl of pain, but a fleeting exorcism, the power of the jam compelling him to release the spirit. In true call-and-response jazz tradition, he puts the sax back to his lips and conjures a couple of equally coarse honks from the instrument before resuming his dexterous cascade.
Met Gala 2024 Photos: Lana Del Rey, FKA twigs, Charli XCX, Rosalía, Dua Lipa, Ariana Grande, Bad Bunny, Doja Cat, and More
Following the 2023 event, celebrities returned en masse to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual Met Gala. The fundraiser’s dress code this year is “The Garden of Time,” which has led to many botanical interpretations from a bevy of celebrities, including musicians, actors, and designers.
Camila Cabello Announces New Album C, XOXO
Following March’s “I Luv It,” Camila Cabello has announced her new album. The former Fifth Harmony singer’s fourth solo studio LP is called C, XOXO and it’s out June 28. See the album cover below. Speaking about “I Luv It” in a recent press release,...
Drake and Kendrick’s Beef Is the Most Miserable Spectacle in Rap History
Pitchfork writer Alphonse Pierre’s rap column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, Instagram freestyles, memes, weird tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. The truth about rap is that all rappers are liars. Even if they are telling the truth, the lines between fact and fiction are always...
Kendrick Lamar, Isabella Lovestory, Tommy Richman, 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.
Reasonable Woman
Sia’s voice is a titanic instrument that swerves between sorrow and euphoria in the same octave-spanning measure. Since her 2014 breakthrough, 1000 Forms of Fear, the Australian star’s career has spanned big-ticket electropop collaborations with the likes of Diplo, Zayn, Flo Rida, and Sean Paul, as well as her own passion projects. Over the past decade, her sound fully morphed from the quietly crushing indie pop of early records to produce glossy mainstream hits, including both giddy highs and some forgettable lows. Reasonable Woman, the singer’s 10th studio album, continues the trend of inconsistency. Over manicured synth arrangements and beat drops blown up to eye-watering proportions, Sia belts out self-help anthems that stick to formulaic, dated sounds. It’s outsized feel-good music with little worth feeling good about.
Slum Village
From the jump, Slum Village have always been centered around three things: ill beats, boastful raps, and love songs more horny and cavalier than an army of porn bots. The tuneful intricacies of producer and founding member J Dilla’s music had such a gravitational pull at the Detroit group’s peak, they often overshadowed just how erotic the music could be. On Fan-Tas-Tic Vol. 1’s “The Look of Love, Pt. 1,” pattering drums and serene guitar strums cushion rappers and co-founders Baatin and T3’s thirst (“Your fragrance got me losing consciousness/Your stance got me unbuckling my fucking pants”). T3’s verse on the 2015 cut “Love Is” gets even more direct; it opens with a bluster about being inspired to write after getting some good head. Even after several lineup changes and the deaths of Dilla in 2006 and Baatin in 2009, the SV ethos never faltered. With T3 still at the helm, the group remains committed to the groove: They continue to be occasionally thoughtful, often rock-the-mic competitive, and always willing to bet on a piece of strange.
Drake Responds to Kendrick Lamar With New Song “The Heart Part 6”: Listen
The ongoing rap battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar continues, with Drake sharing a new song titled “The Heart Part 6”—a reference to the Pulitzer Prize winner’s ongoing single series. “And we know you’re dropping 6 mins after so instead of posting my address you have a lot to address,” he wrote on social media. Drake’s track responds to the two tracks Lamar dropped over the weekend, Friday’s late-night “Meet the Grahams” and Saturday’s “Not Like Us.” Listen to the new song below.
Watch Dua Lipa Perform “Illusion” and “Happy for You,” Host Saturday Night Live
Last night, Dua Lipa was both the host and musical guest on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live. In addition to starring in eight sketches, the pop star sang two tracks from Radical Optimism, her new record: single “Illusion” and album closer “Happy for You.” Dua Lipa was introduced by Troye Sivan for the former track and Jerry Seinfeld for the latter number. Watch all the clips from her SNL episode below.
Kendrick Lamar Doesn’t Wait for Drake Response, Drops Another New Diss Song “Not Like Us”: Listen
Drake has yet to answer Kendrick Lamar’s latest diss, the late-night “Meet the Grahams,” but that’s not stopped Lamar from dropping another new song. The latest, “Not Like Us,” is produced by Mustard. Listen to the track below. Along with his now-expected Drake disses...
Kendrick Lamar Wastes No Time to Answer Drake Diss With New Song “Meet the Grahams”: Listen
Kendrick Lamar is already back with another Drake diss. “Meet the Grahams,” the Compton artist’s third track of the week—following “Euphoria” and “6:16 in LA”—arrives within an hour of Drake’s barbed response, “Family Matters.” Find the latest new song below.
Challengers (Original Score)
At a recent premiere of Challengers, journalists stopped Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on the red carpet to ask them about the score, their latest in a stellar run that began in 2010 with The Social Network, and which has bagged them two Academy Awards so far. “We’re used to the world of being in a band where we can control everything and we’re the bosses,” Reznor said. “Working in film, it’s interesting and it’s fun because we’re not the boss, we’re working in collaboration and in partnership with the director.”
Look to the East, Look to the West
The industrialization of nostalgia has grown so tedious that the comeback of an old favorite can elicit as much malaise as excitement these days. But news of Camera Obscura’s impending return stirred something hot and fluttery even in cycle-hardened indie-rock hearts. Stereogum “literally squealed,” as did I, as did probably anyone who followed the most loveable band in twee from around 2000 to 2015, a run cut short by the untimely death of keyboardist Carey Lander. How else could we express our feelings about music that, even at its saddest, had brought such unique delight—for reasons that, given its unpretentious style, were so hard to put into words?
Drake Fires Back at Kendrick Lamar on New Song “Family Matters”: Listen
The ball is back in Drake’s court. After Kendrick Lamar’s back-to-back diss tracks, “Euphoria” and “6:16 in LA,” the For All the Dogs rapper has taken verbal shots at his nemesis with the new song “Family Matters.” Listen to it below. On...
“6:16 in LA”
Just over five years ago, Pusha T went on the Joe Budden Podcast and reiterated his claim that, in the wake of “The Story of Adidon,” Drake was offering flights on private jets and as much as $100,000 for incriminating information about Pusha. No one bit; some even recorded their phone calls with the would-be broker to prove they didn’t participate. There was the suggestion, flattering to Push’s on-record persona, that cooperating with Drake would invite violent retribution: One man who was contacted said he’d need enough money to move his family into hiding.
Phil Elverum Shares New Mount Eerie Song on Palestine Benefit Album: Listen
Phil Elverum has shared a new Mount Eerie song, “& Sun (Early),” as part of a compilation benefitting the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and Palestine Legal. (All proceeds go to the charities.) Check out Merciless Accelerating Rhythms - Artists United for a Free Palestine below, with the Mount Eerie song at track three.
Gary Floyd, Incendiary Singer of Texan Punk Greats the Dicks, Dies at 71
Gary Floyd, the whirling dervish at the heart of Texan punk institution the Dicks, has died of congestive heart failure, The Austin Chronicle reports. He was 71 years old. Floyd was born in Arkansas, started performing after a move to East Texas, and made his name in Austin, where he formed the Dicks and became an emblem of queer punk. As he told Maximum Rocknroll in 2014, “I was loud and happy to be letting people know, ‘Hey, I am a big ol’ fat queer, what the hell are you?’ I did give a fuck and I spoke out about it, but not in an oppressed or sad way, more in a party, happy and very defiant way.”
Listen to Rapsody and Erykah Badu’s New Song “3:AM”
On May 17, Rapsody will release the new album Please Don’t Cry. She’s now shared the album’s third single, a collaboration with Erykah Badu titled “3:AM.” Listen to the new song below. Lonestarrrmuzik, Marc Bridges, and S1 produced “3:AM.” The track also has flute from...
Channel Tres Announces Debut Album, Shares New Song “Berghain”: Listen
For years, Compton DJ, singer, and producer Channel Tres has been releasing singles and EPs. He’s now ready to release his debut studio album. The new album is called Head Rush, and it’s out June 14 via RCA. Channel Tres has also released a new song, “Berghain,” a collaboration with Barney Bones that’s billed as the album’s lead single. Listen to it below.
Kendrick Lamar Posts Another New Drake Diss Song, “6:16 in LA”: Listen
Kendrick Lamar is back again with another diss track aimed at Drake. The new song, “6:16 in LA,” is currently available only on Lamar’s Instagram. Head there to hear it. Perhaps the most pointed diss in Lamar’s “6:16 in LA” is the track’s title. It’s a play on the time-and-location-themed songs that Drake favors. Over the years, the Canadian artist has named songs “9AM in Dallas, “5am in Toronto,” “6PM in New York,” “4pm in Calabasas,” “7am on Bridle Path,” and “8am in Charlotte.”
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