Music

Prince, the Clash, Frankie Beverly, and Roxanne Shanté are among the Grammys’ 2025 Lifetime Achievement honorees, the Recording Academy announced today. Frankie Valli, Dr. Bobby Jones, and Taj Mahal round out the recipients; Erroll Garner, Glyn Johns and Tania León have been named as the Trustees Award winners. The Technical Grammy will go to the

Spotify has formally rejected Drake’s recent p-and-spotify-of-illegally-boosting-kendrick-lamars-not-like-us-streams-in-new-legal-filing/ that the streaming giant helped Universal Music Group (UMG) illegally inflate streams of Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us,” Billboard reports and Pitchfork can confirm. In court documents, viewed by Pitchfork, Spotify refers to Drake’s petitions as “legally deficient” and writes that they “should be denied.” In

Hozier returned to Saturday Night Live for the NBC program’s final pre-Christmas episode of 2024. He first played “Too Sweet,” which former President Barack Obama recently named one of his favorite songs of the year. The Irish musician then did the Pogues’ holiday classic “Fairytale of New York.” Watch Hozier’s SNL performances below. Hozier made

Alfa Anderson, the singer of some of disco group Chic’s biggest songs, including “Le Freak,” “Good Times,” “My Forbidden Lover,” “At Last I Am Free,” “I Want Your Love,” has died. The band’s Nile Rodgers shared the news on social media, but he did not disclose a cause of death. Anderson was 78 year old.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has shared his annual list of his favorite songs of the year, featuring Kendrick Lamar’s GNX track “Squabble Up,” “Yayo” by rising Nigerian star Rema, and the Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman duet “Right Back to It.” Billie Eilish, Tyla, Fontaines D.C., Shaboozey, Beyoncé, Moses Sumney, Sturgill Simpson’s Johnny Blue Skies

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: