London punk trio Big Joanie (@bigjoanieband) have shared a cover of Solange’s (@saintrecords) “Cranes in the Sky.” It will appear alongside a song called “It’s You” on an upcoming 7" that comes out August 14, 2020 via Third Man Records. Listen to the track at the link in our bio. — #BigJoanie #Solange #CranesintheSky
From Alanis Morissette to Makaya McCraven, there's so much new music to check out. Head to the link in our bio to read more about this week's New Music Friday releases. — 📷 by M. McKeown/Express/Getty Images — @alanis @makayamccraven #NewMusicFriday
On her second album, KIND, Thanya Iyer (@thanyaiyer) asks listeners to question who, exactly, is nurtured by our current cultural notion of togetherness and who is left out. The Montreal-based singer-songwriter and violinist has spent the past few years exploring the intersection of baroque pop and improvisational jazz, and her music feels like an invitation to a discussion, specifically one that calls for honest reflection and careful analysis. Read more about her new album at the link in our bio. — #ThanyaIyer #violin #pop #jazz
The Go-Go’s (@officialgogos) have shared their first new song in 19 years. Listen to “Club Zero” at the link in our bio. — #ClubZero #NewMusic
Fill out your bracket, then head to the link in our bio to read about this week's Sunday Review, Smog's Knock Knock — 🎨 by @drewknowitz — #Smog #BillCallahan #SundayReview #KnockKnock
Happy Sunday 🌞 Get our Sunday Review in your inbox every weekend. Sign up for the newsletter at the link in our bio. — 🎨 by @drewknowitz — #SundayReview #Newsletter
🌞 The Sunday Review: Today, we're revisiting Knock Knock, Bill Callahan’s masterful 1999 record as Smog. It's a breakup album about discovering new ways of being in the world. Read more about it at the link in our bio. — #BillCallahan #Smog #KnockKnock #SundayReview
The drop of @taylorswift's surprise album folklore was definitely a stressful few days here at Pitchfork. But we can't say we were mad. On the latest episode of our new podcast The Pitchfork Review, we discuss the album. Listen at the link in our bio. — #TaylorSwift #folklore #podcasts
There’s an emotional clarity in KeiyaA’s work that comes from peering within yourself and finding language for what you discovered there. Read more about her philosophical, introspective neo-soul music at the link in our bio. — 📷 by @perrylperry — #KeiyaA #ForeverYaGirl #NewMusic
Beyoncé's new visual album Black Is King is here. In the film, dance sequences, Lion King samples, and footage of Black families around the world are interspersed with sequences in which Beyoncé traverses a beach, reciting details of a generations-spanning spiritual journey. Read more about the project at the link in our bio. — 📷 via 2020 Parkwood Entertainment — #Beyoncé #BlackIsKing #NewMusic
On his 10th studio album, now reissued with rarities and B-sides, @paulmccartney grappled with emotions too big to neatly fit inside a pop record. Read more about it at the link in our bio. — #PaulMcCartney #RockMusic #FlamingPie
On Telefone, which just turned 4, Noname pours joy and devastation into a rich, somber, and incredibly intimate album. Revisit our review at the link in our bio. — #Noname #Telefone
In April, Flint, Michigan rapper YN Jay released “Coochie,” one of the hottest rap songs in the Midwest right now. Since then, he has been prolific, and “Gotta Get Rich” is his best recent release. Over a piano-heavy Sav beat, he goes back-and-forth between two deliveries—one a near whisper, the other a traditional Michigan rap flow—as he clowns his unnamed targets. Though we know what YN Jay really wants to rap about: “You ever been to coochie land?/It’s a real island.” Read more about YN Jay at the link in our bio and on @theones Instagram account.
Having studied with English actor and mime Lindsay Kemp (who worked with David Bowie as well) for “Wuthering Heights," Kate Bush's training is reflected in the video's stunningly expressive choreography, a combination of ballet, mime, and theater. See where it ranked on our list of The 25 Best Music Videos of the 1970s at the link in our bio.
Tim Presley, the singer-songwriter behind White Fence and Cate Le Bon’s DRINKS collaborator, is releasing a new book of his drawings and poetry. Check it out in the link in our bio. — 🎨 courtesy Tim Presley
Peaches (@peachesnisker) has put her spin on T. Rex’s 1972 song “Solid Gold Easy Action.” Listen at the link in our bio. — 📷 by Jim Dyson/Redferns — #Peaches #TRex
Heady, funny, and fearless, Fontaines D.C.’s (@fontainesband) second album is a maudlin and manic triumph, a horror movie shot as comedy, equal parts future-shocked and handcuffed to history. Head to the link in our bio to read more about it. — #AHerosDeath #Rock #RockMusic
On Sucker’s Lunch, Madeline Kenney (@mkenneymusic) asks herself for permission to fall in love, or to reckon with a past of self-doubt and a present of intense uncertainty in order to shape something like a satisfying future. Read more about the album at the link in our bio. — #MadelineKenney # SuckersLunch #RockMusic
Happy birthday, @liluzivert! To celebrate, read our list of the 20 best tracks from one of the most important rappers of the last decade in the link in our bio. — #liluzivert #rap #hiphop #soundcloudrap
@Arcadefire's third album, The Suburbs, turns 10 this weekend. On the album, which we named Best New Music, the band proved they could make grand statements without sounding like they're carrying the weight of the world. Revisit our album review at the link in our bio. — #TheSuburbs #BestNewMusic #ArcadeFire
This was supposed to be Billie Eilish’s year; she had multiple Grammy wins under her belt and a massive arena tour on the books. But pandemics don’t discriminate, so as the world shut down and millions retreated into their homes, so did she. “my future” is the first song Eilish wrote under quarantine, and it finds the young pop star once again in a contemplative headspace. On this new song, she’s not singing to any former lover—she’s addressing herself. Listen to the song at the link in our bio. — #BillieEilish #myfuture @billieeilish
Beyoncé has released her new visual album Black Is King, via Disney+. The project is written, directed, and executive produced by Beyoncé, and features appearances by Bey herself, JAY-Z, Tina Knowles-Lawson, and—in the “Mood 4eva” segment—Kelly Rowland, Naomi Campbell, and Lupita Nyong’o, among many more. Find out more at the link in our bio. — 📷 by Andrew White — #Beyoncé #BlackIsKing @beyonce
Can you think of a more perfect title for Flo Milli’s debut than Ho, why is you here? When she says those exact words on the mixtape’s intro, you instantly feel secondhand embarrassment for the sorry soul caught on the wrong end of the question. Read more about the best and worst of rap this week—from the arrival of Flo Milli to a must-hear track from Shawny Binladen—at the link in our bio. — #FloMilli #Rap @flomillishit
During Taylor Swift season, you can feel the full glee and see new parts of Pitchfork light up, like it's back to school season. On the latest episode of our new podcast, The Pitchfork Review, we discuss her surprise album, folklore. — 🎨 by @drewknowitz — #TaylorSwift #folklore #newmusicfriday #podcast @taylorswift
The act of listening to new music in the midst of a global pandemic is hard, but it’s necessary. Read about the brain science behind why new music can be so hard to listen to at the link in our bio. — 🎨 by @drewknowitz — #brain #music #pandemic #healing @pitchfork
When @jaboukie was in high school, he used to annotate his copy of Crime and Punishment with Coldplay lyrics. Watch his entire episode of Over/Under in the link in our bio. — #Jaboukie #Comedy #Coldplay
@LadyGaga and @ArianaGrande's "Rain On Me" just got 7 VMA nominations. Revisit our review of the track at the link in our bio. — #LadyGaga #ArianaGrande #RainOnMe
Kate Bush's gorgeous story-songs put you in a treasured, child-like space. Celebrate her birthday today by revisiting some of her greatest music at the link in our bio. — 📷 by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images — #KateBush #HoundsofLove #TheSensualWorld #50WordsforSnow
On Long Lost Solace Find, Mike Polizze (@purling_hiss) teams with @kurtvile for a record of simple, blissful folk songs. This music is the sonic equivalent of a beer on the beach at sunset. Read more about it at the link in our bio. — #Folk #FolkMusic #MikePolizze #KurtVile
Atlanta-based singer and songwriter @mariahthescientist has enlisted @ilbaby_1 for a new song. “Always n Forever” arrives with a new music video co-directed by Mariah the Scientist and Kid Studio. Watch at the link in our bio. — 📷 by Jaylin Jackson
@JorjaSmith_ has shared a new song called “By Any Means.” It's the lead single from Roc Nation’s forthcoming Reprise project—a collection of songs curated by the label, the proceeds from which will go to funding organizations that support victims of police brutality, hate crimes, and other violations of civil rights. Listen to the track at the link in our bio. — 📷 by @ebruyildiz — #JorjaSmith #RocNation #Reprise
Blu & Exile’s 2007 album Below the Heavens quickly became a cult classic. It has been hailed as a “magic album” and a tectonic shift that changed West Coast rap. They had never quite been able to escape the shadow of their massive collaborative achievement until their new project, Miles: From An Interlude Called Life, a sprawling double album about the cultural forces that shape us. Learn more about it at the link in our bio. — #BelowtheHeavens @bluherfavcolor @exileradio
"I was really fascinated by Bollywood movies in the early 2000s. I wanted to go see a Bollywood movie at a theater, so my husband and I saw one that was completely in Hindi, without subtitles. It was like three hours long, and though we would sometimes laugh at places where other people wouldn’t laugh, somehow we understood it overall. My interest in Bollywood movies led me to a bhangra song called “Tunak Tunak Tun” by Daler Mehndi. His zest for life just comes out of the screen and grabs me." Read more about the music that Chicana feminist icon Alice Bag has listened to throughout her life at the link in our bio. — @alice_bag @thedalermehndiofficial
@Disclosure have shared another new single from their forthcoming album ENERGY. “Douha (Mali Mali)” features Malian singer @fatoumata_diawara__ and comes with a video directed by @mahaneela.jpg that features dancers in various scenic locations in Italy, South Africa, and New York. Check it out at the link in our bio. — 📷 by Aïda Muluneh — #Disclosure #FatoumataDiawara
From the the soothing lullabies of Animal Crossing to the punk and hip-hop blasts of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, video game soundtracks can create evocative, enveloping worlds. Head to the link in our bio to read about 12 of our faves from the last 20 years. — 🎨 by @drewknowitz — #AnimalCrossing #TonyHawk #VideoGames
From her Instagram-only take on SWV to her soundtrack-starring cover of “Across the Universe,” Fiona Apple's covers game has always been in top form. Listen to some of her best at the link in our bio. — 📷 by David Corio/Redferns — #FionaApple #SWV #TheBeatles
Rhino has announced a reissue of Lou Reed’s 1989 album, New York. New York: Deluxe Edition arrives September 25 and features the first-ever remastered recordings of the album, 26 unreleased studio and live tracks, and a DVD of the long out-of-print “The New York Album” concert film. Find out more at the link in our bio. — #LouReed @loureedofficial #NewYork
Under the name Becky and the Birds, Swedish singer and producer Thea Gustafsson makes gossamer-light music threaded with R&B beats and her acrobatic, piercing falsetto. Her latest EP, Trasslig, creates a singular, cosmopolitan pop mood that's both stylish and vulnerable. Read more about it at the link in our bio. — #Trasslig #Pop #BeckyandtheBirds
Yo La Tengo's latest consists of five formless, comforting drones, recorded with a single microphone placed in the middle of their Hoboken practice space. There is something undeniably comforting, if low-stakes, about hearing them play around with noise, up-close, in the middle of a quarantine-induced drought of human interaction. Read more about the album at the link in our bioi. — #YoLaTengo #WeHaveAmnesiaSometimes
Rina Sawayama (@rinasonline) says she is ineligible for the Mercury Prize and domestic categories at the BRIT Awards. The Japanese-British artist, who has lived in Britain since she was a toddler, called the guidelines “othering” in a VICE interview. Head to the link in our bio to find out more. — 📷 by Jillian Freyer — #RinaSawayama #BRITs #MercuryPrize
"It can be freeing to zoom out, but what if you can't? Is there still a way to heal, or to change?" In our latest Rising interview, we talked to experimental R&B artist @keiyaa about how music, spirituality, and community help her to heal. Read more at the link in our bio. — 📷: @perrylperry
@JohnLegend sat down with us to explore the sounds that sparked his greatest musical breakthroughs in this episode of “Critical Breakthroughs.” Watch the full episode in the link in our bio.
Rio de Janeiro MC @vulgosd9 deftly uses a grime framework to explore a wide range of emotional textures that are part of living in Rio—its pleasures and its hardships. Listen in the link in our bio. #albumreview #sd9 #rap
Tim Presley (@tm_presley), the singer-songwriter behind White Fence and @catelebon’s DRINKS collaborator, has announced a new book collecting his drawings and poetry. Find out more in the link in our bio. — 📷 by @catelebon #art #indierock #timpresley
On June 9, music-rights firm BMG became the first company in recent years to announce that it would scrutinize old record deals for racial unfairness. We asked artists what they expect from the process—or don't, in the link in our bio. — 🎨 by @drewknowitz
Emmy nominations for this year have been announced. In the musical categories, Trent Reznor, Kamasi Washington, RZA, and others have been nominated for their musical work on TV series. More info in the link in our bio. — 📷 by @mattliefandersonstudio at @PitchforkParis — @kamasiwashington #emmys
On his debut album under his own name, @al_wootton formerly known as Deadboy captures a cross-section of recent UK dance-music history, spanning 2-step, breaks, sunrise anthems, and dub techno. Listen in the link in our bio. #albumreview #electronicmusic
“I am at a loss as to how the Town of Southampton could have issued a permit for such an event."—Dr. Howard Zucker, New York’s health commissioner. The Chainsmokers held a charity concert in New York on Saturday that is now being investigated for violating social distancing. Find out more in the link in our bio. — 📷 by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Safe & Sound #thechainsmokers #covid19
Detroit rapper @boldyjames teams with the producer Sterling Toles for his most forward-thinking, experimental, and personal album. Read the review of Manger on McNichols in the link in our bio. #albumreview #jazz #rap
@lanadelrey has released the audiobook version of her new poetry collection Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. More info in the link in our bio. — 📷 by Andrew Chin/Getty Images #lanadelrey #jackantonoff @jackantonoff