Music

A new movie from the Weeknd, which shares a title with his forthcoming album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, has received a North American release date of May 16, 2025, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The suspense thriller stars Abel Tesfaye alongside Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan, with director Trey Edward Shults (known for the A24 movies

Quinn continues to collage ticklish hyperpop, breakneck digicore, and introspective bedroom-rap on Stars Fell on Trench. Released with little fanfare on a Sunday, the latest addition to her bewildering catalog smothers sung and rapped verses in impish, anarchic production, a barrage of samples, counter-harmonies, displaced genre tropes, and hectic sound effects swarming around earworms that

Pitchfork continues to celebrate the Year in Music with a club night tonight (Thursday, December 19). The event, presented by AdHoc, features RP Boo, Dazegxd b2b Intimacy Simulator, Anysia Kym, DJ Ess, Alphonse Pierre, and Mano. Due to delays with original venue Night Club 101 the event will now take place at the Brooklyn venue

Questlove is set to direct a new documentary about the history of Saturday Night Live’s musical guests, Deadline and Variety report. To coincide with SNL’s five decades on the air, Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music will “feature untold stories behind the culture-defining, groundbreaking, and newsmaking musical performances, sketches, and cameos of the past

Yesterday (December 17), Megan Thee Stallion filed a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court for a restraining order against Tory Lanez, reports The Associated Press. She claims that Lanez—who shot her multiple times in 2020 and is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence after being found guilty of felony charges of assault with a semiautomatic

High-profile artists including Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, and Marshmello obtained and misused millions of dollars in government-issued COVID-19 relief money, according to a new report from Business Insider’s Jack Newsham and Katherine Long. The exposé details how the musicians allegedly exploited the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG)—a program signed into law in 2020 to support

SahBabii is going on tour in support of his new album, Saaheem. The rapper’s Resurrection Tour begins in February, in Houston, and is scheduled to conclude, on March 25, at Center Stage in the Atlantan’s hometown. See SahBabii’s tour dates below. SahBabii released Saaheem, his first new project in years, in November. The musician’s team

The shortlists for the 2025 Academy Awards’ music categories are here. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named Daniel Blumberg, Bryce Dessner, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Hans Zimmer among the potential nominees for Best Original Score. Reznor and Ross are also Best Original Song nominees, as are Maren Morris, Pharrell Williams, and

Lady Gaga, Chappell Roan, and Dua Lipa took part in the new Apple TV+ holiday special A Carpool Karaoke Christmas. As part of the special, Gaga debuted a new cover of the Christmas classic “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.” Listen to the new track below, and scroll down for the trailer for A Carpool

Zakir Hussain, the groundbreaking percussionist who helped bring the tabla and Indian classical music to the world stage, has died, his family said in a statement. He died, in a San Francisco hospital, of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a chronic lung disease. Hussain was 73 years old. Hussain was born in Mumbai to a tabla-playing father

Earlier this week, Surf Gang hosted their monthly show on NTS Radio, and they debuted a handful of new songs. One of the tracks, produced by Evilgiane and JonBoyIce, is an as-yet-untitled collaboration with Earl Sweatshirt. Listen to the whole episode below; the song with Earl Sweatshirt begins around the 3:56 mark. Earl Sweatshirt released

Gracie Abrams was the musical guest on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Chris Rock. The pop singer played “That’s So True” and “I Love You, I’m Sorry,” from her new album, The Secret of Us. Watch those performances and her SNL promo video with Rock and Heidi Gardner, below. Abrams has

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 projects from Bossman Dlow; Amen Dunes; Roc Marciano & Alchemist; Saint Etienne; Daniel Blumberg; YhapoJJ:

Röyksopp have shared a new album, Nebulous Nights – An Ambient Excursion Into Profound Mysteries—an ambient reinterpretation of their Profound Mysteries project. Röyksopp recorded Nebulous Nights live, weaving in auditory call-backs to their catalog. Listen to the record below. The Norwegian electronic music duo said in a press release, “Outside the pure listening pleasure, Nebulous

Pink Siifu has announced a new album: Black’!Antique will arrive January 27 via Dynamite Hill. Today, Siifu has shared a new single from the project, “WhoUWithHo+.” The track features Dallas-born producer and artist Kal Banx. Check it out below. Black’!Antique follows Siifu’s 2021 solo LP Gumbo’!, as well as a pair of collaborative albums from

The team behind Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right is opening a new music space within New York’s historic Pyramid Club. Night Club 101 will officially open in the East Village early next year, with a preview club night in partnership with Pitchfork on Thursday, December 19. The event is presented by AdHoc, and will feature

Midas Man, the long-in-the-works biopic of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, will be available to watch in North America from Wednesday, January 22, 2025, via Olyn. Starring Jacob Fortune-Lloyd in the lead role, the film charts Epstein’s life as a gay, Jewish maverick who was instrumental in the Beatles’ rise before his death, of an accidental

Sacred Bones Records has announced a new collection of music by the late cult artist Q Lazzarus. Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From the Motion Picture) is a 21-song compilation featuring a trove of unreleased tracks, all recorded between 1985 and 1995. The songs were retrieved from Q Lazzarus’ archive of