Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus is now the most-certified song in RIAA history. The viral rap star shared on Twitter that the single, released in 2019, had gone 14x Platinum, displacing “All of Me” by John Legend and “Despacito” by Daddy Yankee, Luis Fonsi, and Justin Bieber, which are both
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The Mountain Goats appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform their song “Get Famous,” from the group’s most recent album Getting into Knives. The in-studio performance was filmed remotely; check it out below. The Mountain Goats released two albums in 2020: April’s Songs for Pierre Chuvin, which Darnielle recorded alone on his
Ariel Pink has been dropped by his record label Mexican Summer. The label tweeted that it has “decided to end [its] working relationship” with the artist “moving forward.” Mexican Summer had been set to release Odditties Sodomies Vol. 1, Sit n’ Spin, Odditties Sodomies Vol. 3, and Scared Famous/FF>> on January 29 as the final
AV Super Sunshine’s brand new single, “Super Cool” has come upon us like a locomotive on cruise control. It’s ironic, because AV Super Sunshine isn’t exactly known for doing things at half speed, but this is his opus to smooth. The Airesque “Super Cool” is probably how some expect it to sound. It’s sleek, relatively
WizKid and Burna Boy have shared the music video for their Made in Lagos collaboration “Ginger.” Directed by Meji Alabi, who previously helmed videos for Burna Boy’s “Pull Up” and “On the Low,” the video finds the two artists in a sparse warehouse, surrounded by minimal set dressing. At one point, they play mancala with
Nicki Minaj and Tracy Chapman have settled a copyright dispute that began in 2018 over Minaj’s sampling of Chapman’s 1988 song “Baby Can I Hold You” in her leaked track “Sorry.” According to documents filed in a California federal court this week and viewed by Pitchfork, Chapman and her team have accepted a $450,000 offer
Julien Baker was the musical guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (January 7). Baker performed her recent song “Faith Healer” from Nashville’s Exit/In. Watch it all go down below. “Faith Healer” appears on Julien Baker’s forthcoming album Little Oblivions, which arrives February 26 via Matador. The follow-up to 2017’s Turn Out
Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, the men behind the UK-based experimental pop project the KLF, have released a new movie called Welcome to the Dark Ages. Watch a trailer for it below. According to a press release about the project, Welcome to the Dark Ages follows the first year of the pair’s efforts to build
It can be very easy sometimes to write off country music. In a time where pop and hip hop dominate the genre and country music has been following the trends created by such, sometimes people forget that country was and can still be an effective method for storytelling beyond what most people think of (IE:
Ariel Pink has admitted to attending a pro-Trump protest at the White House yesterday, after filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer posted a photograph of Pink and John Maus together in the city. Pink says he was there to “peacefully show [his] support for the president” but was not part of the mob that stormed the Capitol.
As part of her ongoing reissue series, PJ Harvey has announced a vinyl reissue of her fifth album, 2000’s Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea. It will be released alongside Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea: Demos, a collection of unreleased demos of every track on the album. Both sets arrive
Bill Callahan and Bonnie “Prince” Billy have shared yet another cover song. For their version of Johnnie Frierson’s “Miracles,” the Bills recruited fellow Drag City artist Ty Segall. Check out the new “Miracles” video, directed by Sai Selvarajan, below. Bill and Bonnie kicked off 2021 with a cover of Lou Reed’s “Rooftop Garden.” Last year,
Trying to capture something of the slipping feeling I think we all feel, the feeling of dread, even in beautiful moments, even when you’re a little drunk on a sea cliff watching the sun go down while seabirds fly around you; that slipping feeling is still there, that feeling of dread, of knowing that everything
Alice Glass has shared a video for her new song “SUFFER AND SWALLOW.” The stop-motion animated visual was created by Lucas David. Check it out below. Last summer, Glass released “NIGHTMARES,” a Jupiter Keyes–produced track that appeared on a Sermon 3 Recordings’ anniversary compilation. In 2018 she shared the song “I Trusted You” as part
In a year that has forced us all to recon with our own mortality, Leo Harmonay has crafted a cathartic melancholy masterwork with his album Astoria. Harmonay, a folk singer based out of Hudson Valley, New York is no stranger to covering heavy subject material. Across his four album releases starting from his debut “Somewhere
The 2021 Grammy Awards have been postponed from the originally scheduled date of January 31, as Rolling Stone and Variety report. The Recording Academy has yet to announce the new date, but sources speaking to RS said that the organizers are aiming to hold the ceremony in March. Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for
Debut records, regardless of their length, are more often wrought with unfocused passion and hesitant execution than they aren’t, but this certainly isn’t true of Izzy Outerspace’s Amazon. Consisting of eight simple but thoroughly engaging compositions, Amazon is an EP that runs 28 minutes in total – making it more of a miniature album than it is a
Beastie Boys, Wilco, Phoebe Bridgers, Fleet Foxes, Billie Eilish, and Brittany Howard are among artists to have created their very own Yeti cooler chests for an auction benefitting the Crew Nation relief fund, as Rolling Stone points out. The auction starts today (January 5) at 11 a.m. Eastern and ends a week later. It’s the