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Angel Olsen Announces 2024 North American Solo Tour
Angel Olsen is ready to look backward. The indie-rock singer-songwriter has announced a short North American solo tour that she’s calling Songs From the Archive Tour. As the name suggests, Olsen will revisit songs and deep cuts from across her catalog for the shows, from Strange Cacti to Big Time. See the complete list of tour dates below.
Shakira Announces Fall 2024 North American Tour Dates
Shakira has announced a tour in support of her new album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran. The tour begins in California in November and extends into December. It’s billed as a world tour, so more dates are likely forthcoming. See Shakira’s schedule below. Shakira released Las Mujeres Ya...
Future and Metro Boomin Announce We Trust You Tour
Future and Metro Boomin are following their two new collaborative releases—We Don’t Trust You and We Still Don’t Trust You—with a joint tour. The We Trust You Tour begins this summer at the end of July and stretches into early September. See the hip-hop artists’ upcoming tour dates below.
Mannequin Pussy, Deerhoof, and More Contribute to New Palestine Benefit Compilation
A new benefit compilation, Musicians for a Free Palestine, has corralled Mannequin Pussy, Deerhoof, Frankie Cosmos, and dozens more artists to raise funds for eSims to help Gazans obtain cell service. Organized by Babehoven’s Maya Bon, Speedy Ortiz’s Andy Molholt, and the singer-songwriter Raquel Denis, the compilation features 71 songs, most unreleased. You can buy it now on Bandcamp.
Belle and Sebastian Share New Song “What Happened to You, Son?”: Listen
Belle and Sebastian have shared a new song that was scrapped from their 2023 album, Late Developers, at the last second. “What Happened to You, Son?” tells the story of a music fan obsessing over his idols. Check it out below. “The song is about my youth, and...
Cassandra Jenkins Announces New Album My Light, My Destroyer, Shares Video for New Song: Watch
Cassandra Jenkins is back with a new album, her first for her new label home, Dead Oceans. The singer-songwriter has revealed that My Light, My Destroyer, her follow-up to 2021’s An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, is due out July 12. Jenkins has also shared its lead single, “Only One,” with a Lydia Fine and Tony Blahd–directed music video, which you can watch below.
Green Day, Notorious B.I.G., and Blondie Albums Added to National Recording Registry
Albums by Green Day, Notorious B.I.G., and Blondie will be preserved among “the defining sounds of history” in the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden today named this year’s 25 additions to the archive, also including songs and albums by Abba, the Chicks, the Cars, Bill Withers, Jefferson Airplane, Kronos Quartet, and Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick. See the full list—including Green Day’s Dookie, Biggie’s Ready to Die, Blondie’s Parallel Lines, Abba’s Arrival, and the Chicks’ Wide Open Spaces—below.
Body Meat Announces Debut Album Starchris, Shares Video for New Song: Watch
Body Meat, the solo project of Philadelphia producer Chris Taylor, has announced his debut album. Starchris arrives August 23 via Partisan. Taylor has shared his new album’s lead single, “High Beams,” which blends together trap, nu-metal, and dance to tell the story of a programmer’s first-level boss fight. The new song also comes with a music video, which you can watch below.
Loma Announce New Album, Share Video for New Song “How It Starts”: Watch
Loma—the art-rock trio of Emily Cross, Dan Duszynski, and Jonathan Meiburg—have announced their first new album in nearly four years. How Will I Live Without a Body? comes out June 28 via Sub Pop. Today, they’re sharing the new song “How It Starts” with a video that’s both directed by and starring Emily Cross. Watch it below.
Spiritualized Announce Songs in A&E Vinyl Reissue
On June 21, via Fat Possum, Spiritualized are reissuing their 2008 album, Songs in A&E, as part of their ongoing Spaceman Reissue Program. The record, written and recorded after J Spaceman’s hospitalization with life-threatening double pneumonia, was remastered for the vinyl reissue by Matt Colton at Metropolis. It comes with new artwork and uploads of the “Soul on Fire” and “You Lie You Cheat” videos, officially online for the first time. Check them out below.
Menomena Surprise Release New EP The Insulation: Listen
Menomena have surprise-released The Insulation EP. It’s the Portland art-rock group’s first new music since releasing Moms in 2012. Listen to the three-song EP below. While Menomena never formally broke up, original member Brent Knopf left the band in 2011 and remaining members Danny Seim and Justin Harris continued under the moniker for several more years. After releasing fifth album Moms, Menomena toured around the globe. They played their last show in 2014 in their hometown of Portland, Oregon.
I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY!
I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY! starts in a better place than girl in red’s 2021 debut, if i could make it go quiet. Gone are Marie Ulven’s intrusive thoughts about physically hurting her loved ones and herself, the spiraling anxieties that seemed to plague her every moment. In their place, she’s discovered a newfound self-confidence and some much-needed stability. Maybe, as she suggests on the opening song “I’m Back,” taking some time away from the music industry helped. But mental illness is a lifelong struggle, and while she’s eager to say, “I love being alive,” she’s careful to caveat it: “At least for now.” On her second album, Ulven approaches familiar topics—unrequited love, self-doubt, the pains of growing up—with a stronger sense of self, sounding both softer and more fierce than before. As a queer pop star with a firm grasp on her own emotional failings, girl in red addresses common issues from a unique perspective. But too often, her lyrical ambitions fall short of their lofty goals.
So Medieval
In a parallel universe—one where indie rock reigns supreme and continually seeks out poets of deadpan absurdism—critics are already celebrating So Medieval like a promising novelist’s debut splash. The blurb touts “a tale of musical ambition and romantic anguish, told through continental capers involving raw halloumi, a Formula One audiobook, and the ‘shitpost sagas’ of once-in-a-generation voice Arthur Nolan.” Our expectations are pegged to Blue Bendy’s chatty UK peers—Dry Cleaning, Squid, et al.—then sharply raised as we learn the band has “coined a formally daring new language,” perhaps positioned “between the indie disco and the next morning’s social media scroll.” Emblazoned on the back cover of this literary-musical opus are quotes from Jarvis Cocker, Yung Lean, and for some reason Zadie Smith.
Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn
For almost two decades, Anoushka Shankar has been on a mission to liberate the sitar from both the rigid strictures of the Indian classical tradition and the Orientalist cliches of hippie spirituality that the instrument often invokes in the West. She’s no iconoclast; Shankar continues to perform Hindustani classical music, including compositions by her father, the late Pandit Ravi Shankar. But for the London-born musician, who grew up between the UK, Delhi, and Los Angeles, that tradition represents just one of the many possibilities presented by the medieval stringed instrument.
Coachella 2024
Toward the end of No Doubt’s Saturday night performance on Coachella’s main stage—a performance that was the subject of near-endless rumors about the presumably astronomical fee the long disbanded group must have commanded for a pair of one-off gigs—Gwen Stefani offered the night’s lone detectable lie. After knocking out 10 quick push-ups, and before launching into “Just a Girl,” the 54-year-old Orange County native observed, “We are absolutely in the future right now.” A nice thought, maybe, but one that was tough to square with the onslaught of nostalgia that defined their set, the rest of Saturday’s bill, and post-COVID Coachella writ large.
Jamie xx and Honey Dijon Share New Song “Baddy on the Floor”: Listen
Hot on the heels of his Coachella set, Jamie xx has shared a new song that he played at the festival. “Baddy on the Floor” features Honey Dijon and was created by the two DJs over video calls during the pandemic. Check it out below. Jamie xx has...
Weyes Blood Shares New Video for “Andromeda”: Watch
This month, Weyes Blood’s 2019 album, Titanic Rising, turned five. To mark the anniversary, she has shared a new music video for “Andromeda,” a fan favorite from the record and one of her biggest songs to date. Directed by Weyes Blood, Ambar Navarro, and Colton Stock, the visual stars the musician as an astronaut and an alien riding a meteor. Watch it below.
Elyanna, Amen Dunes, I. Jordan, 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.
Doja Cat Brings Out A$AP Rocky, 21 Savage, Teezo Touchdown at Coachella 2024
Doja Cat headlined the final night of the first weekend of the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, bringing out guests including 21 Savage, Teezo Touchdown, and—adding to his Tyler, the Creator guest spot—A$AP Rocky. Doja Cat’s Scarlet-heavy setlist also made room for an appearance from a capella group the Joy, but it omitted pop hits like “Say So” and “Kiss Me More,” favoring a rap-forward approach. Check out the setlist below, along with Coachella’s ongoing rebroadcast of shows from across the weekend.
Silence Is Loud
The self-described “emotional junglist” Nia Archives sings cursive melodies over some of the most relentless breakbeats you’ve ever heard. It’s the sound of 100 thoughts racing through your head when you realize your situationship lied to you. A few years ago, she was balancing school with a job at the UK pub chain Wetherspoons, paying out of pocket for Instagram ads to promote her first song. Soon, she became a leader of a widespread jungle and drum’n’bass revival alongside artists like dazegxd and SHERELLE. The scene has had a slew of TikTok hits and bite-sized EPs, but no defining project—until now.
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