Music

The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our

Johnny Foreigner have announced their new album, ‘Forwards!’, with the single ‘The New Navigation’ and details of a UK tour. Find all the details below. The Birmingham indie band will release the record on September 4 via Alcopop! Records, following on from 2024’s ‘How To Be Hopeful’. Pre-order/pre-save here. They have described the forthcoming project

Agriculture have announced a stateside trek. In the fall, the black metal band will tour their second album, 2025’s The Spiritual Sound, primarily on the West Coast, but will travel to the Midwest to play a short run of shows in November. Throughout the month-long sprint, the Los Angeles quartet will be joined by Brooklyn

This weekend saw Foo Fighters complete two sold out shows at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool, where the band were joined on stage by two very special guests. The US rock titans’ only scheduled UK shows of 2026 (with the band teasing more to come next year) kicked off on Thursday June 25. In the latter

Ms. Lauryn Hill received the inaugural Living Legend Icon Award at the BET Awards 2026 tonight. To celebrate her big moment at the awards ceremony, a number of musicians paid tribute to the Fugees member—including SZA, Doechii, Nas, Doja Cat, Queen Latifah, Tems, Lizzo, Rapsody, Tierra Whack, and more—before Hill ended up performing one of

Ice Nine Kills’ Spencer Charnas has spoken to NME about their new single ‘Play Dead’ – which was created in collaboration with online survival horror multiplayer game Dead By Daylight – wanting to reconnect rock music with horror, and what the future of the band holds. Dead By Daylight is the “most-played horror game in history”

On Sunday night I was putting my clothes away and realised Virgin had been out for almost a year. I decided something had to be done about that. To be honest I haven’t really known how to talk about Virgin since it came out. I’d thought I was accustomed and even a bit desensitised to

Gorillaz have announced that their ‘House Of Kong’ exhibition is heading to New York for a limited run. The immersive exhibition first launched in London last year and invites fans inside the fictional world of the band, exploring 25 years of Gorillaz history, artwork, music, characters and mythology. Billed as a chance to “peek behind the curtain into the unseen world

Harmony Tividad is done with the intentional brain-rot pop of Gossip, at least for now. The former Girlpool member picks back up the acoustic guitar and, with it, her natural instincts for indie-pop earworms. Broadly recounting an endless cycle of becoming in the modern world, Lifetime is a detailed and thoughtful reflection that takes note

A celebration of life memorial service has been set next month for the late Oliver Tree – find all the details below. The eccentric singer-songwriter died in a helicopter crash in Brazil on June 14 at the age of 32, in an incident that also took the lives of five others. In a recent tribute, Tree’s

Empress Of has announced new album Dream House, the follow-up to 2024’s For Your Consideration. Out Sept 18 via Giant Music, the record reflects on life after the Altadena fires that destroyed Lorely Rodriguez’s home—a topic explored on the single “Wild Storm,” released today with a Mitch deQuilettes-directed video shot in the aftermath. Rodriguez will

Mick Jagger has admitted that the idea of a big-screen Rolling Stones biopic “interests” him. The legendary frontman was asked about the possibility of the band receiving the biopic treatment in a new interview with GQ, in the context of Sam Mendes’ upcoming four-film Beatles project. “Yeah, it interests me,” Jagger replied when asked whether a similar treatment for the Stones would appeal to him. “I

Heavens to Betsy, the punk duo of Corin Tucker and Tracy Sawyer whose 1994 split led to the formation of Sleater-Kinney, will tour this fall for the first time since the breakup. After launching the reunion with a surprise show in Portland, Oregon, last night, Tucker and Sawyer have lined up an itinerary that includes

BBC DJ and presenter Trevor Nelson has announced he is taking a break from his BBC Radio 2 show for medical reasons. The Radio 2 and 1Xtra presenter, who has been off air this week after undergoing tests, announced that he is “taking a little break from my work commitments” due to “health issues” yesterday

Carly Rae Jepsen’s lead single from her forthcoming double LP has arrived. The pop-rockish “On Wires” is the first offering from the 24-track Day and Night. Check out the Caio Vieira-drected music video for it below. In a new interview with NME, Jepsen spoke of the single’s origins as a “come hither” track, before needing

Peggy Gou has teamed up with Ayra Starr on her new summer-ready single ‘Wo,man’ – check it out below. The South Korean-born, London-based DJ, producer and artist released the track today (June 26) via XL Recordings, marking her latest release since her 2024 debut album ‘I Hear You’. A typically euphoric summer dancefloor anthem from Gou, ‘Wo,man’ pairs Gou’s restlessly

With an hour’s notice and a bat of her eyelashes, Charli XCX ushered in her third single from Music, Fashion, Film, “Wink Wink.” The song gets a music video directed by frequent collaborator Aidan Zamiri, in which the pop star swears she’s “not a bad girl anymore.” Check it out below. “Wink Wink” arrives after

La Roux has shared her new single ‘Babyline’ from her upcoming album ‘Old Flames’ – listen to it below. Unlike her comeback single the R&B-tinged ‘Cabin Fever’, this anthemic synth driven track treads more familiar territory and wouldn’t sound out of place on her 2009 self-titled debut. “‘Babyline’ is about finding your way out of