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Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw festival is here: Your last taste of freedom before holiday parties and family dinners gobble up the rest of the calendar. The party returns to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles this weekend (November 14-15), with a lineup including Future, Nourished by Time, Don Toliver, Syd, Earl Sweatshirt + MIKE,

Panda Bear’s Noah Lennox has put his spin on Grace Ives’ “Stupid Bitches,” the standout closer of her new album Girlfriend. Lennox’s version is a near-total overhaul; he cut all new vocals and gave the song’s instrumental a dubby rework. “I’m a huge Panda Bear fan, I am so so happy he did this,” Ives

The soundtrack to Jordan Firstman’s buzzy A24 debut, Club Kid is here. The appropriately club-centric focused EP features Nirosta Steel and Christine and the Queens, who both offer their own takes on avant-garde composer Arthur Russell’s “Boy With a Smile.” Other contributors include Moby, Brutalismus 3000, and Shygirl, who appears as herself in the film.

Hayley Williams surprised fans in São Paulo last night by inviting samba legend and all-around Brazilian great Seu Jorge to the stage for a pair of duets. Jorge started with an acoustic, Williams-assisted rendition of his cover of David Bowie’s “Life on Mars?” After that, he backed Williams on her thematically twinned track “Zissou.” Watch

U2 have released their new album Carnaval de Luz, and with it their duet with the late Dolly Parton. The LP’s closing track, “Torn” is supposedly the last song Parton recorded before her death in August. It was co-written with Snow Patrol’s Johnny McDaid, and features steadfast U2 collaborator Daniel Lanois on pedal steel. “Torn

Grab your Yondr pouch: Phoebe Bridgers is continuing her Lost Tour into 2027. The North American arena run now extends through mid-May, and what’s more, will bring about the first-ever Grouper arena shows. You read that right—Liz Harris will open for Bridgers in Portland, Oregon and Spokane, Washington. Paper Wings and Christian Lee Hutson will

It’s getting dark before 5 p.m. again; luckily, there’s a new Merge Records holiday compilation to help keep the gloom at bay. Out digitally this Friday, November 13, Snowed In promises such delights as a brand-new Tubs song called “I Am an Elf” and Charlotte Cornfield’s take on “Jingle Bells.” Scroll down for the full

Beyoncé might not say much outside her music but she’ll never pass up an opportunity to gush about Sade, from shouting her out in a Harper’s Bazaar interview to posting a handwritten letter about how much the singer has meant to her. “For years, I’ve turned to Sade for inspiration,” she wrote on her website

Entropy:01 Aeon02 Heaven & Hell03 Hard Sync04 Rogue Wave05 Angel06 To Mercury…07 Face of the Earth08 Entropy King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard:08-05 – 08-06 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Forever Cemetery08-07 San Diego, CA – The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park08-08 Flagstaff, AZ – Pepsi Amphitheater08-10 Santa Fe, NM – Hipico08-13 Colorado Springs, CO

Newly minted short film director Conor Oberst is returning to his roots as a musician next year with a solo North American tour, dubbed An Alleged Evening with Conor Oberst. His first solo trek since 2019 begins next February in Lawrence, Kansas, and closes out with two back-to-back nights in Estes Park, Colorado. Check out

Black Belt Eagle Scout has returned with “Fantasy,” her first new song in three years. In that time, the Swinomish musician Katherine “KP” Paul was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, struggled to walk, and lost the ability to play guitar. “Fantasy” delves into the stresses and struggles of a capitalistic society, and how it took a

Not content with securing an original Justice score, anything-goes soundtrack, and bundle of superstar-curated radio stations, Rockstar Games has announced Grand Theft Auto VI: The Festival. Coming to Miami’s premier convention center, Mana Wynwood, on the alarmingly near date of November 21, the one-dayer is set to be headlined by Travis Scott and friends (billed

Yesterday marked a full calendar year since Rosalía dropped her third album Lux, and she marked the occasion with a couple of celebratory offerings. They include a 1,000-song Spotify playlist titled “1000 TEMAS QUE TE DAN LUX,” with tracks from Kate Bush, Mozart, Bon Iver, Yung Lean, Labi Siffre, Pink Floyd, Caetano Veloso, Verdi, and

Oh, to spend an evening lounging in a hotel bed with Hayley Williams while she noodles on the guitar. That’s essentially the premise of the music video for “Dream Girl in Shibuya,” a song from Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party that’s all about hoping someone will come hit up your hotel room. Check out

Richard Lloyd, the co-founding guitarist of Television, has died, The New York Times reports. The cause was cholangiocarcinoma, a bile duct cancer. He was 75. In August, a GoFundMe was launched to raise money for Lloyd’s treatment. “His loving wife Sheila and his dog Willie Mays were with him at the end,” his family said

Nick Cave is heading out on the road next year, reviving the format of his 2019 tour blending a Q&A, live performance, and career retrospective. The 2027 edition of Conversations With Nick Cave: An Evening of Talk & Music kicks off in Vancouver next April, and will traverse North America before concluding in New Orleans

When Macklemore announced his Free Palestine Tour—a run of benefit shows in Dublin, London, and Paris following his removal as Ed Sheeran’s opener —he promised U.S. dates were not far behind. But Stateside arenas, like their football stadium counterparts, are apparently less than enthused to book the rapper over his pro-Palestine comments. In a statement

All Olivia Rodrigo wants for Christmas is for her partner’s grandma to think she’s cool. Rodrigo just shared her first holiday song, aptly titled “Take Me Home (4 Christmas),” and it’s all about that first time you meet your honey’s extended family on their turf. Written with usual suspects Dan Nigro and Amy Allen, it’s

Thankfully safe and sound after an October tour bus fire, Muna are bouncing back with a deluxe edition of their May album Dancing on the Wall. The new extended cut features reworks from Avalon Emerson, Arlo Parks, and Porches, plus a “Dancing On The Wall (Romy in a Lesbian Trance Remix).” You’ll have to wait

This is Lorelei dropped by the Santa Monica public radio station KCRW today to perform five songs from his latest album The Singer in My Band. Accompanied by a four-piece band of bassist Al Nardo, keyboardist Bailey Wollowitz, and drummer Cameron Wisch, he played “I Will Eat My Heart in the Morning Light,” “Billy Came

It’s been three years since Christine and the Queens shared his last proper solo album, a 20-song record inspired by Angels in America. Now, he’s back with a new song done up two ways: in French (“Rendez-vous avec toi”) and English (“Rendez-vous in your arms”). They both come with a music video co-directed by Chris

With less than a week’s warning, Saya Gray has shared the third entry in her series of work-in-progress Qwerty EPs. The seven-track Qwerty III is the sequel to 2024’s Qwerty II and 2023’s Qwerty. You can stream it below. “Q EPs are experiments between projects,” Gray elaborated in a statement accompanying the release. “The throwaways.

Still cruising through the promo circuit behind his June album Philadelphia’s Been Good to Me, Kurt Vile appeared on last night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform “99 BPM.” Watch him stage a masterclass in the understated shred below. Vile is gearing up for the latest North American leg of his

November 20 Bodywash: Laughing at Noise [Light Organ] Julianna Barwick / Mary Lattimore: Threshold (OST) [Florid / Blue Pool] Lambchop: Demoed [Merge] R.E.M.: Reveal (25th Anniversary Edition) [Craft] Sebadoh: Harmacy (30th Anniversary Expanded Edition) [Sup Pop] Various Artists: Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album [Atlantic / Rock Star] November 27 Agriculture: The Spiritual Sound, Live

Halloween may be barely behind us but Sufjan Stevens is already in the holiday spirit. His forthcoming compilation Worst Christmas Ever! compiles a mix of Yuletide standards done up Stevens style (“Angels We Have Heard on High (Christmas Infinity Voyage Version)”) and originals from his extensive holiday catalog. Among them is a newly unearthed vault

As the wise Phoebe Bridgers once said, it’s Halloween and we can be anything. This year, the music world had plenty of different ideas for how to mark the spookiest day of the season, which coincided with the end of Daylight Savings time. So don’t cry because the sun sets at 5:00 P.M. now. Smile

David S. Pumpkins returned to Saturday Night Live this Halloween, only to have his comeback hijacked by another very loud, very orange, and considerably less entertaining character. Tom Hanks reprised his cult-favorite role during this week’s cold open, appearing in a haunted ride sketch reminiscent of his two previous appearances on the show. Unfortunately, Pumpkins’

Joe Perry called it back in June when he declared, “I don’t think you’ve seen the last Aerosmith performance.” Last night (Oct. 29), the guitarist’s prediction came to fruition as Aerosmith returned to the stage at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl for California, Dream On: Aerosmith & Friends, a guest-packed celebration of the band’s legacy that

Bradford Cox has rebooted Atlas Sound with “Octoberland,” his solo project’s first new release in 15 years. The track arrives alongside a self-directed music video and follows the announcement of several Atlas Sound festival appearances in 2027, including Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Kilby Block Party in Salt Lake City, and Primavera Sound in Barcelona.