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Neil Young says he has pulled out of a scheduled performance at Glastonbury 2025 because of the BBC’s partnership with the festival. In a blog post on Tuesday (December 31), Young lamented that the broadcasting company, which is government-owned, had taken “corporate control” of the famously anti-commercial, nonprofit UK festival, which neither hosts brand partnerships

Jane Remover has announced a new album. Revengeseekerz is the singer-producer’s proper follow-up to 2023’s Census Designated. A release date and tracklist for the record, due out from DeadAir later this year, have not been shared yet. Lead single “JRJRJR” is out today, though, alongside a music video directed by Parker Corey. Watch it below.

Aphex Twin has compiled the limited-edition singles he sold on tour between 2016 and 2023 on a new album, and you can hear it right now. Music From the Merch Desk (2016 – 2023) arrived as a listing on streaming services yesterday (December 16) before going live today. Check out the 38-track record below. Music

SZA has confirmed that the deluxe version of SOS, long teased with the title Lana, will arrive on Friday. In a new teaser for the album, Ben Stiller lip syncs to one of the new songs. Check it out on her Instagram. SZA has been trailing the album that may or may not be named

During their set at Glastonbury, in June, Idles brought out Danny Brown to do a new version of the Tangk song “Pop Pop Pop.” The artists have now released the official studio version of the remix. Listen to the new song below. Idles are up for Best Rock Album, for Tangk, and Best Rock Performance

James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr., the 39th president of the United States, has died, the Carter Center announced. He had been in hospice care since February 2023, and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, died in November 2023. The former president was 100 years old. “My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone

After teaming up on Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat, Billie Eilish and Charli XCX united onstage to give their “Guess” duet it’s live debut at Inglewood’s Kia Forum last night. Watch the pair take the stage swathed in brat-green lighting below, and head to Charli XCX and Kia Forum’s respective Instagram

A new album of unreleased Holger Czukay music will see the light of day on March 28. Gvoon – Brennung 1, coming out via Grönland, collects just more than an hour of music the Can co-founder recorded in the 1990s, during a period working in Cologne alongside younger techno producers who helped verse him in

Pitchfork is happy to announce that Pitchfork Music Festival CDMX will return, in May, for its second edition. The three-day festival takes place across Mexico City from May 2 to 4, with participating artists to be announced soon. The first shows are on Friday, May 2, at La Roma’s Foro Indie Rocks! On Saturday, May

For a brief moment, it looked like Kendrick Lamar released a song that could date back to his Section.80 days. “Money Without Me” was posted on his YouTube channel in the late night hours of December 17, but, as of the afternoon of December 18, it’s gone. Pitchfork has reached out to Lamar’s representatives for

OG Maco, the influential Atlanta rapper whose debut single, “U Guessed It,” was a landmark in mid-2010s trap, died yesterday (December 26) in a Los Angeles hospital, TMZ reports. He was admitted on December 12 after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head that appeared to be self-inflicted, according to TMZ. After two weeks in

Bad Bunny has announced a new album. Debí Tirar Más Fotos (which translates to “I should have taken more photos”) is the Puerto Rican superstar’s follow-up to last year’s Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana, and is out January 5. Bad Bunny shared the news today (December 26) by posting a teaser video

Netflix has shared the first trailer for a forthcoming documentary about late Swedish DJ and producer Avicii. Avicii – I’m Tim includes interviews with, among others, David Guetta and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and will be narrated by Avicii himself, using archival video and recordings. The documentary will be available to stream globally on December 31,

Beyoncé took the field in her Houston hometown to play the halftime show during one of the NFL’s first Christmas game to stream live on Netflix. At NRG Stadium—as the Houston Texans and Baltimore Ravens took a break from the game action—she performed Cowboy Carter cuts, beginning with “16 Carriages,” as she rode atop a

Tyler, the Creator has a new video: “That Guy” finds the Californian rapping over the beat for Kendrick Lamar’s GNX cut “Hey Now.” The video, directed by Tyler, features three Odd Future alumni, Jasper Dolphin, Travis “Taco” Bennett, and Lionel “L-Boy” Boyce. Watch it below. Tyler doesn’t often rap over new and popular beats, but

Massive Attack have turned down an approach from Coachella to perform at the 2025 festival, citing its environmental impact, Robert “3D” Del Naja told NME in a recent interview. Speaking with Greg Cochrane, Del Naja lamented the burden on water supplies of the festival, as well as others in desert locations and those accessible only

Bob “Slim” Dunlap, the Replacements’ former guitarist and a solo artist in his own right, died on Wednesday, December 18, The Minnesota Star Tribune reports. Dunlap’s family said, in a statement, that the musician died of complications from the severe stroke he had in 2012. The family also said he was listening to the Slim

SZA’s new album, Lana, the expanded edition of SOS, has finally arrived. To nobody’s surprise, the eternal perfectionist was still tweaking the record when fans expected it to drop at midnight on Friday (December 20). Now, it is here in all its 38-song glory. The deluxe LP features 15 additional songs—including one titled “30 for