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Portishead will regroup next month for their first show in seven years, playing a short set as part of a War Child benefit concert supporting relief efforts in Ukraine. The 1,200 tickets for the show, which takes place in the band’s Bristol hometown, will be raffled off in pairs, but everyone who enters will gain access to a livestream. (A single entry is free for those who send a postcard to a UK address—see more below.) Donating £10, or around $13, creates three entries. Enter here before 7 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, April 24. Idles, Billy Nomates, Katy J Pearson, Heavy Lungs, and Wilderman are also playing the six-hour concert. In a statement, Portishead said: “We are really pleased to be able to support the people of Ukraine by performing a few songs at this event in collaboration with th...

Porridge Radio have released a new song called “The Rip” from their upcoming album Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky. It comes with a music video directed by frontperson Dana Margolin’s sister Ella Margolin. The clip features Dana Margolin running on a treadmill in a field while mysterious figures in papier-mâché masks slowly surround her. Find the video, which contains strobing images, below. “We wanted [‘The Rip’] to sound like massive pop, like Charli XCX, but with the instrumentation of bands like Slothrust or Deftones,” said Dana Margolin in a statement. “It took the longest a song has ever taken me to write lyrics for, and they took form over a few years. At the beginning it was a song about a power dynamic where I was in control, by the end it was about one where I had non...

Arca has announced a new box set for her expansive KICK series. The new release includes all five of Arca’s latest albums—KiCk i, KICK ii, KicK iii, kick iiii, and kiCK iiiii—in a 5xLP vinyl box set due out May 20 via XL. A limited number of box sets will include exclusive alternate artwork for KiCk i. Arca has also shared a new song called “Cayó,” featuring additional production by Tim Hecker and a music video directed by Albert Moya. In a statement, Arca said “Cayó” is about “exploring self states, non-binary modes of relating of that which is ‘other,’ creating new intersectional ways of mediating identity through exploring sensuality, and heightened communion with the sensual embodiment of self.” Check it out below. Revisit Pitchfork’s feature interview “Live From Quarantine, It’s the A...

Tonight, at midnight Eastern, Pink Floyd will release the new song “Hey, Hey Rise Up!” The song features Andriy Khlyvnyuk (of Ukrainian band Boombox). Specifically, the new track has Khlyvnyuk’s vocals from an Instagram post that found him singing the patriotic Ukranian song “Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow” in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Square earlier this year. Find the lyrics and single artwork for “Hey, Hey Rise Up!” below. Pink Floyd recorded “Hey, Hey Rise Up!” on Wednesday, March 30, according to a press release. A music video, directed by Mat Whitecross, was also made that day. The lineup on the track includes David Gilmour and Nick Mason with bassist Guy Pratt and keyboardist Nitin Sawhney. “Hey, Hey Rise Up!” is billed as the first original music from the band since 1994’s The Division...

Action Bronson has announced a new album titled Cocodrillo Turbo. It will arrive April 29 via Loma Vista. He’s shared lead single “Subzero” today along with a music video directed by James Larese. In the clip, Bronson can be seen riding a bodyboard in a tsunami while waves crash through New York. Eventually, he ends up in the desert where the Alchemist catches him in a Mad Max–style vehicle. Check it out below. Cocodrillo Turbo follows Bronson’s 2020 album Only for Dolphins. The new LP features Conway the Machine, Roc Marciano, Hologram, and Meyhem Lauren, as well as production from the Alchemist, Daringer, Roc Marciano, and Bronson himself. In a statement, Bronson explained, “I first came up with this album while in the water. I’ve spent many lifetimes in the water. I’m just a water man. ...

Interpol have announced The Other Side of Make-Believe, their new album that’s out July 15 via Matador. They’re previewing the record with lead single “Toni” and an accompanying music video directed by Van Alpert. Check it out below. “I wrote a crazy idea that I felt was new for Interpol: a hyper-modern, cinematic dance film. A ‘Lover’s on the Run’ story with a classic cliff-hanger ending,” Alpert said of his music video in a statement. “Paul Banks ties everything together and elevated the concept, because he’s naturally a great actor, artist, and collaborator.” As reported last year, Interpol worked on their new album in London with Alan Moulder and Flood. The Other Side of Make-Believe is Interpol’s seventh studio album and the follow-up to 2018’s Marauder. Later this month, they will ki...

The Weeknd has partnered with MSCHF, an art collective and app, to press his single “Out of Time” on a functioning saw blade vinyl record. Only 25 copies will be made. They’re being auctioned off on VinylBlade.com for 24 hours, starting at 1 p.m. Eastern today (April 7). Earlier this week, the Weeknd shared the Cliqua-directed music video for “Out of Time,” featuring South Korean model and actress HoYeon Jung and Jim Carrey. It’s the latest track from Dawn FM to get a visual, following “Take My Breath,” “Sacrifice,” and “Gasoline.” He also released The Weeknd x The Dawn FM Experience back in February. Read “5 Takeaways From the Weeknd’s New Album Dawn FM” on the Pitch. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Photo courtesy of MSCHF

In early February, Snoop Dogg was sued by a woman who claimed that the rapper sexually assaulted her in California in 2013. After Snoop Dogg and the other defendants filed motions for dismissal on March 24, the woman and her attorney yesterday filed a notice of voluntary dismissal of the lawsuit. The woman, identified as Jane Doe, had been suing Snoop Dogg for a violation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, for sexual battery, for sexual assault, and more. In addition to Snoop Dogg, she named as defendants the rapper’s associate Bishop Don “Magic” Juan and the companies Gerber & Co, Inc.; the Broadus Collection, LLC; Casa Verde Capital, LLC; and Merry Jane Events, Inc. In a statement shared with Pitchfork, a spokesparty for Snoop Dogg said, “The allegations of sexual assault aga...