Taylor Swift returned to Saturday Night Live last night to play two songs from her new record Lover. She did “False God,” as well the album’s title track. Taylor played a stripped down solo piano version of “Lover” in a bright green room surrounded by floating sheet music. For “False God,” she was accompanied by
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Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig sat down with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon for a nearly two-hour interview on the latest episode of his Beats 1 show “Time Crisis.” They reminisced about playing beer pong at a Minneapolis bar after a Vampire Weekend show, talked about their personal hurdles with touring, discussed Vernon’s life in Wisconsin (including
Elton John performs during his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour at the Wizink Center on June 26, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. (Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press via Getty Images) He’s currently on his farewell tour, but Elton John has revealed he was close to not living to see it. The singer, 72, was diagnosed in 2017 with
After days of being “critically ill” in the hospital, the iconic drummer Ginger Baker died today. Baker—best known for his work with Cream, Fela Kuti, and Blind Faith—was widely considered one of the best percussionists in the world. Musicians who worked with Baker and the leagues of people inspired by him took a moment this
Derick Almena—the master tenant of the Oakland warehouse known as the Ghost Ship, where 36 people lost their lives during a devastating fire in late 2016—will be retried on multiple counts of involuntary manslaughter, as Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU reports. Almena was arrested and charged in June 2017 for his role in the blaze,
R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe has released a new song called “Your Capricious Soul.” It’s available to purchase on his website, with all proceeds going towards the climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion. You can check out the song’s music video via the website as well. Watch the Sam Taylor-Johnson directed video here. “Your Capricious Soul”
Tyler, The Creator performs live on stage at O2 Academy Brixton on September 16, 2019 in London, England. (Jim Dyson/Getty Images) Rapper Tyler, the Creator, has addressed being banned from the UK after the language in some of his songs was lit into by activists and the then home secretary Theresa May. The rapper –
Dave Free has left his position as co-president of Top Dawg Entertainment, according to a new report by Rolling Stone. Citing “two insiders with knowledge of the move who spoke on the condition of anonymity,” RS states that Free has been “working on his own for several months.” Dave Free, along with TDE founder and
Lil Nas X, Cardi B, and their collaborators on the song “Rodeo” have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit by two Atlanta producers, who claim that “Rodeo” is derivative of a song they produced in 2017. According to the complaint, viewed by Pitchfork, producers Don Lee and Glen Keith DeMeritt III claim that they
Canadian singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez has shared a music video for her brand new song “Far Away.” The Peter Huang-directed visual follows two lovers who are brutally separated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.). Watch it below. [embedded content] “Far Away” is from Reyez’s forthcoming debut album, which will arrive next year via FMLY/Island Records. Of
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 albums from Angel Olsen, Danny Brown, Wilco, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Chromatics, DIIV,
The Wham! duo in 1983, when George Michael first came out to his friend (Mike Maloney/Mirrorpix/Getty) George Michael’s Wham! bandmate Andrew Ridgeley has revealed he was terrified when his friend came out as gay, as he feared he would die as a result of AIDS. In his new book, Wham!: George & Me, Ridgeley recalled
Gucci Mane just surprise-released a new track with Megan Thee Stallion, titled “Big Booty.” Take a listen to the song below. Gucci Mane’s new album, WOPTOBER II, is out October 17 via Atlantic. Earlier this week, Gucci announced the rapper as a star of their new Cruise 2020 campaign alongside Iggy Pop. Harmony Korine, who
Samantha Urbani has shared a new one-off single titled “Made in Love.” Take a listen to the track from the longtime Blood Orange collaborator below. In a statement, Urbani said the song came out of her rethinking love as a space rather than just a feeling: “It’s a place to be radically honest, empathetic, selfless—a
RuPaul of RuPaul’s Drag Race. (VH1) An alt-rock drummer turned drag queen has told the story of how RuPaul’s Drag Race helped him explore his “lost identity” and come out as gay. Ash Kenazi said, in a piece for The Independent, that in 2016 he “could not accept” that he was gay, but on the
Lana Del Rey played a full, piano-and-voice cover of Joni Mitchell’s “For Free” in Seattle last night. Check it out via her Instagram below. The track originally appeared on Mitchell’s 1970 album, Ladies Of The Canyon; Lana shared a brief Instagram rendition in 2017. She hints in a new LA Times interview that more covers
that dog. have released the music video for a new song called “Just the Way,” from their forthcoming Old LP. The Three‘s Company spoof stars Jack Black and Maya Rudolph as the landlords Stanley and Helen Roper, with the band posing as a murderous version of the titular roommates Janet, Chrissy, and Jack. Hijinks ensue;
Thom Yorke was a guest on tonight’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The Radiohead frontman sat down for a wide-ranging chat with Colbert, which was edited for time on TV but shared on YouTube in full. Watch their entire conversation below. Colbert began by reminiscing about the time Radiohead were given a