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In the wake of her canceled tour due to COVID-19, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield has announced a series of five livestream concerts during which she’ll perform her entire discography. The shows start with 2012’s American Weekend on June 1 and will end with this year’s Saint Cloud on June 29. “This idea was born as a

Black Dresses, the Toronto-based noise-pop duo of Devi McCallion and Ada Rook, have announced plans to break up. In a statement shared with Pitchfork, the duo explained that the decision stems from fans’ “extended harassment” of McCallion over the past two years. Read it in full below. The group’s statement doesn’t outline specific events that

Kamaal Williams—a.k.a. Henry Wu—has announced his second album Wu Hen with a new song called “One More Time.” It’s due out July 24 on his own label Black Focus. Check out “One More Time” below. The album takes its title from a nickname Williams’ Taiwanese grandma gave him as a child. L.A. rapper Mach Hommy

“Tell me what you’re gonna say / When you turn around and you walk, walk away” sings Walker’s Cay frontman Gary LaBarr in the theatrical chorus of the all-new single “Tell Me,” released last April to a warm reception from fans and critics alike. As potent as any of the grooves in this song are,

Beach Fossils have announced a 10th anniversary edition of their self-titled debut. The reissue of Beach Fossils arrives with a limited edition 7″ of “Vacation” with the previously unreleased song “Time.” The collection arrives this fall via [Bayonet]https://www.bayonetrecords.com/). Stream “Vacation” b/w “Time” below. “I was trying not to have any control over the music, to

Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb has died from lung cancer, NPR reports. He was 91 years old. Jimmy Cobb was born in Washington, D.C. in 1929. He left home in 1950 for his first traveling gig, touring with Earl Bostic. By 1959, at just 30 years old, Cobb played his best known work, drumming for Miles

JPEGMAFIA has shared another new song. His new track, “CUTIE PIE!,” follows recent exclamation point entries “BALD!,” “Covered in Money!,” and “BODYGUARD!” Peggy directed his new “CUTIE PIE!” video, which looks to have been shot in the desert. Watch below. JPEGMAFIA released All My Heroes Are Cornballs last year. Read Pitchfork’s Rising interview “Get to

Last night’s episode of the BBC spy drama Killing Eve featured a mysterious cover of Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do.” That the show used a cover rather than the original is not unusual: magisterial, downbeat pop covers are Killing Eve’s trademark musical style. But the track piqued fans’ interest when Swift shouted

Rapper YNW Bortlen (real name: Cortlen Henry), was granted release on bond in Broward County, Florida yesterday (May 23). One of Henry’s attorneys John M. Phillips announced the news in a tweet earlier this evening, stating that “Jamell Demons aka @YNWMelly’s co-defendant Cortlen Henry aka @YNWBortlen was granted bond and house arrest.” Phillips clarified that