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All Things Go Festival has unveiled the lineup for its 2026 edition. Lola Young, Hayley Williams, Mitski, and Brandi Carlile will headline the three-day music festival at Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, with Ethel Cain, Zara Larsson, and Muna rounding out the bill. It takes place from September 25 to 27. That same weekend, the New

The Smashing Pumpkins have detailed an extensive run of concerts they’re calling the Rats in a Cage Tour. Each show will feature “two unique sets” celebrating Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ recent 30th anniversary, as well as other “unruly hits and dark treasures.” Find a complete list of tour dates below. In 2024, the

Nick Valensi, one of the original guitarists in the Strokes, is dropping out for an unspecified portion of the band’s upcoming performances. “Nick will be taking a temporary break from the scheduled tour, but we look forward to his return,” reads a message posted to the Strokes’ Instagram story and viewed by Pitchfork. Valensi will

Sir Paul McCartney was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on May 16, taking on the slot for the first time since 2012 to ring in the show’s Season 51 finale. The 83-year-old artist performed opposite host Will Ferrell, playing his new song “Days We Left Behind” and a Wings classic, “Band on the

Two months after Swedish rapper/enigma Bladee dropped a pair of singles, he’s back with a new song called “Blondie” and an album announcement. Produced by fellow Drain Gang member Whitearmor, Sulfur Surfer arrives May 20 on Trash Island. A tracklist hasn’t been revealed, but one song is confirmed to feature David Tibet’s long-running doom folk

Note: This article contains descriptions of alleged sexual assault. Jermaine Jackson, a Jackson 5 co-founder and older brother of Michael Jackson, has been ordered to pay Rita Barrett $6.5 million in damages after failing to respond to a rape lawsuit she filed in 2023, TMZ reports and court records confirm. Barrett alleged in the lawsuit

Twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz are back with their first Ibeyi album in four years. Offering, the follow-up to 2022’s Spell 31, is out June 26. Unlike the duo’s first three albums, which were released on XL, Offering will premiere independently, on the sisters’ own label, IBEYI Records. You can check out the lead single,

Drake is back with his first solo album since 2023’s For All the Dogs… and his second, and his third. After months of teasing a new LP, Iceman, he revealed on a live stream that he had two more albums dropping last night, Habibti and Maid of Honour. All three arrived on schedule. He has

The Avalanches have returned with their first new single in six years. “Together” features Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza, and Prentiss, an 18-year-old artist and producer based in Jackson, Missouri. An anthropomorphic iPod and floppy disk are the stars of the song’s accompanying visualizer, which was directed and animated by frequent collaborator Jonathan Zawada. Check it

The Library of Congress has announced this year’s batch of “defining sounds of history” to be preserved in its National Recording Registry. Among the inductees are songs and albums by Beyoncé (“Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)”), Taylor Swift (1989), Weezer (Blue Album), Chaka Khan (her version of Prince’s “I Feel For You”), the

KeiyaA has announced a tour of the United States and Europe behind Hooke’s Law. In the “Thirsty” video that accompanies the news, the New York-via-Chicago singer, songwriter, and producer puts her talents in service of the song’s theme—helped along by a Gucci Mane interpolation—by dancing and drinking a lot of milk. Watch it go down

Overmono, the Welsh electronic duo of brothers Tom and Ed Russell, have announced their second album, Pure Devotion. Due out August 7 on XL Recordings, the follow-up to their 2023 debut Good Lies features Ruthven, Kindora, Rock Floyd, and John Joseph Holt. Today, the duo released a lead single, “Lockup,” which retools Birmingham post-punk group

A Broadway jukebox musical about “Weird Al” Yankovic is in the works, Deadline reports. Titled Dare to Be Stupid, its soundtrack will be comprised of parody songs from throughout Yankovic’s extensive spoof oeuvre, including “White & Nerdy” (his take on “Ridin’” by Chamillionaire), “Amish Paradise” (Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”), “Eat It” (“Beat It”), “Like a Surgeon”

Bloc Party have a new album on the way. The London band enlisted Trevor Horn for Anatomy of a Brief Romance, their follow-up to the 2022 LP Alpha Games. Listen to the single “Coming on Strong” below. Kele Okereke says he wrote the record in the wake of a more than decade-long relationship. “Every lyric

Rostam Batmanglij produced Clairo’s 2019 debut Immunity, and together they crafted the masterpiece (and third best song of that year) that is “Bags.” Seven years later, the pair has reunited for the latest single from Rostam’s forthcoming album American Stories. Titled after the late French chanteuse Françoise Hardy, “Hardy” is built around a sample of

The London townhouse where the Beatles recorded Let It Be, and, on the rooftop, performed their last concert, will open to the public next year as a museum. Among the promised attractions are a recreation of the Let It Be studio, rotating exhibitions, and a bevy of archival material spread across seven stories. Paul McCartney,

Debbie Harry formed Blondie in 1974; one year later, she landed her first acting gig, marking the beginning of dozens of film roles over the following decades, including parts in David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, John Waters’ Hairspray, and the underrated Heavy by James Mangold. It’s been over a decade since her last acting credit in a

London-based instrumentalist and poet Alabaster Deplume’s new album came to fruition last year, after a fervent period of touring with bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Tcheser Holmes in support of A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole. But the roots of the project date back to 2024, when Plume found himself in occupied Palestine working