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New Book Documents the Eating Habits of Touring Indie Musicians, With Stories From Fleet Foxes, Weyes Blood, and More
Taste in Music: Eating on Tour with Indie Musicians is a new book documenting just that. Real Estate’s Alex Bleeker and the travel writer Luke Pyenson (formerly of Frankie Cosmos) compiled the book, enlisting Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, Weyes Blood’s Natalie Mering, Bob Mould, Dawn Richard, Talking Heads’ Chris Frantz, Pavement’s Mark Ibold , and many more to contribute stories. Chronicle Books will release the collection on September 24.
Rina Sawayama Enlists Chanmina for New “This Hell” Remix: Listen
Rina Sawayama has enlisted Japanese rapper Chanmina for a remix of “This Hell,” a single from 2022’s Hold the Girl. The remix is being released ahead of next week’s Tokyo Rainbow Pride. Listen to “This Hell (Gyarupi Remix)” below, via Spotify Singles. In a...
J.P.’s Milwaukee Lowend Anthem “Bad Bitty” Is the Catchiest Song Anywhere Right Now
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. At random points of the day, everyday, for weeks now, I’ll catch myself randomly blurting out, “Hey, huh, bow,” just the way J.P. does on...
9 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Future & Metro Boomin, Maggie Rogers, and More
With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Future & Metro Boomin, Maggie Rogers, Still House Plants, Shabaka, Nia Archives, Girl in Red, Blue Bendy, Elyanna, and Red Hot Org & Meshell Ndegeocello. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Share New “Song for Amy” From Back to Black: Listen
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have shared “Song for Amy,” a new song they made for the new Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black. It’s featured on the film’s soundtrack, as well as Cave and Ellis’ score album. Listen to the soundtrack and score albums below.
Thursday Return With First New Song in 13 Years: Listen
Post-hardcore band Thursday have returned with their first new music in 13 years—to the day. The band debuted “Application for Release From the Dream” during an intimate concert in Albany, New York, last night (April 11), and presented the single for sale in 7" vinyl form at the merch table. Now, the track is available across streaming services. Check it out below.
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Boys Noize Connect for New Challengers [Mixed] Album: Listen
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scored the new Luca Guadagnino movie Challengers. For now, the Nine Inch Nails musicians are not releasing their original score. Instead, they’ve shared Boys Noize’s mix of nine songs from the film, made to play like a continuous DJ set. Listen to the new album, fully titled Challengers [Mixed] by Boys Noize, below.
Diamond Jubilee
This may be the greatest radio station you’ve ever come across. Unless it’s multiple stations talking over each other, in and out of range. Sounds arrive in strange combinations; nothing is quite exactly the way you remember. Did that classic rock band really have a synth player, and why did they pick a patch that sounds like a mosquito buzzing through a cheap distortion pedal? And those eerie harmonies swirling at the outskirts of that last-dance ballad by some 1960s girl group whose name ends in -elles or -ettes. Did they hire a few heartbroken ghosts who were hanging around the studio as backing vocalists? Or are these fragments of other songs, other signals, surfacing like distant headlights over a hill, then disappearing once more?
Don’t Forget Me
Eight years ago when a viral video thrust Maggie Rogers into the spotlight, she quickly went from NYU music student to public figure, garnering the type of cult following where the lines between artist and therapist start to blur. Since then, she has made efforts to slow things down. “I started to realize that there was this functional misalignment with the work that I had trained to do and the work that I was being asked to perform,” she told The New Yorker, explaining her decision to enroll in Harvard Divinity School in 2022. “I was put in this unconventional ministerial position without having undergone any of the training.” If strangers were going to look to her for guidance, her thinking went, then the best she could do would be to rise to the occasion.
Ramona
Ramona, the third album from Melbourne belter Grace Cummings, feels at first like a possible masterpiece, a new apogee in the pantheon of tormented soul. Across its 11 allusion-rich character studies and screeds of lovelorn retribution, Cummings renders every moment with unmitigated emotional intensity, as though every feeling were the last one that would ever matter. Hear her grow, for instance, from long-faced tenderness at the start of “A Precious Thing” to an operatic mercenary howling about love. “But it’s nothing I care about,” she roars like Diamanda Galás on a Disney ride designed by Dante. Or witness the cracks in her voice as she surges beyond an Amy Winehouse coo during “Something Going ’Round,” testaments to the self-doubt ingrained in this opening love letter. Built by a band that has clearly studied the Wrecking Crew’s glories, and gilded with strings and harp, Ramona holds a singular and mighty voice in a spectacularly grand frame, not unlike Rufus Wainwright’s Want One or Weyes Blood’s Titanic Rising.
Watch Dua Lipa’s Video for New Song “Illusion”
Dua Lipa has released the latest single from her highly-anticipated third album, Radical Optimism. “Illusion” arrives with a Tanu Muino–directed music video shot at the Piscina Municipal de Montjuïc in Barcelona. Watch Lipa perform at the luxe pool amid dancers, high divers, and synchronized swimmers below.
Forest Swords Announces North American Tour Dates, Shares New Songs: Listen
Forest Swords has announced a series of North American concerts. The British electronic music producer born Matthew Barnes will perform in Brooklyn, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Calgary in June. See Forest Swords’ schedule below. Barnes released the comeback Forest Swords album Bolted last year. He’s following the...
Drake Dropped From Astroworld Lawsuits
Drake has been dismissed from the civil lawsuits filed against him, Travis Scott, and many others in the wake of the 2021 Astroworld tragedy, TMZ and Houston’s KPRC 2 reports. Stanton “Larry” Stein, an attorney for Drake, offered no comment when reached by Pitchfork. The Harris County,...
Maggie Rogers Adds Fall 2024 Tour Dates
Maggie Rogers has announced the second part of her Don’t Forget Me Tour. The second leg takes place in October and November. See all of Rogers’ tour dates below. Tickets to a handful of Rogers’ shows are available exclusively in-person at box offices. She explained in a press statement:
Vampire Weekend and Amber Coffman Cover Grateful Dead’s “Peggy-O”: Watch
Vampire Weekend took over the SiriusXMU channel this past weekend to celebrate the release of their new album, Only God Was Above Us. The band hung out in the SiriusXM studio to record interview segments and a stripped-down live session, during which the group covered Grateful Dead’s “Peggy-O” with help from Amber Coffman and violinist Ray Suen. Vampire Weekend also played acoustic renditions of their new songs. Watch their take on “Peggy-O” below.
Taylor Swift Songs Return to TikTok Despite Label’s Feud With Platform
Earlier this year, Universal Music Group (UMG) and its publishing arm, Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), pulled their songs from TikTok amid a licensing dispute with the app. The removal meant that music from Drake, Lana Del Rey, Ariana Grande, and many others could not be used with videos on TikTok.
Andrew Bird Announces Jazz Trio Album, Shares New Videos: Watch
Andrew Bird has announced a new album of jazz standards. The full-length, Sunday Morning Put-On, is the debut release from the Andrew Bird Trio, featuring Bird, drummer Ted Poor, and bassist Alan Hampton. See the group’s performances of “I Fall in Love Too Easily” and “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” below. Scroll down for Bird’s upcoming tour dates.
Ice Spice to Make Acting Debut in Spike Lee’s New Movie High and Low
Spike Lee will introduce Ice Spice, the actor, in his new movie High and Low, Variety reports. Adapted from the Akira Kurosawa classic, the A24 and Apple Original Films production has already begun filming, Apple noted yesterday. Denzel Washington stars in the movie, resuming the ongoing partnership with Lee that started in 1990 with Mo’ Better Blues. This will be their first film together since 2006’s Inside Man.
Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
Shabaka Hutchings’ tenor saxophone shows up exactly once on this album. Around 10 minutes before the LP ends, he summons the fierce momentum and sandpapery grit that have powered beloved bands like Sons of Kemet, the Comet Is Coming, and Shabaka and the Ancestors, and helped to make him one of the most celebrated jazz musicians of the past decade. As is usually the case when Shabaka—now billed by first name only—picks up what he has called the “big, loud, shiny horn,” the solo is thrilling. But this brief, incendiary statement carries a special weight in the wake of Shabaka’s announcement—made on New Year’s Day 2023 and clarified that summer—that he would be taking an indefinite hiatus from the tenor and his groups that feature that instrument.
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