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Edith Frost, the Texan singer-songwriter and Drag City luminary, has been banned from Twitter after changing her username to “Elon Musk” and tweeting a series of absurd jokes, as Galaxie 500’s Damon Krukowski points out. In a series of now-inaccessible tweets, Frost tweeted satirical and scatological gags like, “Ow ow ow ow owwwwww!!! (my poop chute),” and, “Twitter is the greatest social network on earth! For me to poop on.” She had changed her profile picture to a photo of Elon Musk scribbled over with an unhappy face. On November 11, four days before Frost’s tweets, Musk had vowed to crack down on unlabeled parody accounts. “Going forward, accounts engaged in parody must include ‘parody’ in their name, not just in bio,” he tweeted. The multi-billionaire and Tesla CEO, who touts himself ...

Kanye West is no longer buying Parler. “In response to numerous media inquiries, Parlement Technologies would like to confirm that the company has mutually agreed with Ye to terminate the intent of sale of Parler,” the social media service announced. “This decision was made in the interest of both parties in mid-November.” West, whose legal name is Ye, and Parlement Technologies announced the agreement in October, with West remarking, “In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves.” (Parler, which arose in the wake of Trumpism, brands itself as a free-speech haven, railing against censorship on mainstream social media.) The initial announcement came at a time when West was locked out of his Twitt...

Kanye West is no longer buying Parler. “In response to numerous media inquiries, Parlement Technologies would like to confirm that the company has mutually agreed with Ye to terminate the intent of sale of Parler,” the social media service announced. “This decision was made in the interest of both parties in mid-November.” West, whose legal name is Ye, and Parlement Technologies announced the agreement in October, with West remarking, “In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves.” (Parler, which arose in the wake of Trumpism, brands itself as a free-speech haven, railing against censorship on mainstream social media.) The initial announcement came at a time when West was locked out of his Twitt...

Light in the Attic Records has announced the third volume in its Pacific Breeze archival series: Pacific Breeze 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1975-1987 is due out February 24. The 16-track release will be available in 2xLP, CD, and cassette formats and features cover art by Hiroshi Nagai, whose paintings also adorned the first two volumes in the series. Check out the album art and tracklist below. Like its predecessors, Pacific Breeze 3 was curated by Light in the Attic’s Yosuke Kitazawa and dublab’s Mark “Frosty” McNeill. It includes music from Susan, Miharu Koshi, Chiemi Manabe, Parachute, and more alongside songs produced by Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Yukihiro Takahashi. Read Pitchfork’s feature “The Endless Life Cycle of Japanese City Pop.” ...

Senegalese singer-songwriter Baaba Maal has announced a new album: Being is due out March 31 via Marathon Artists. It’s his first solo album since 2016’s The Traveller, and features guest contributions from the producer and multi-instrumentalist Johan Karlberg. Ahead of the full album, Maal has released a song called “Yerimayo Celebration.” Listen to that below, and scroll down to find the tracklist and album art. As he notes in a press release, “Yerimayo Celebration” is a call to honor tradition amid the fast pace of technology. “A song is like a person. It has a life, name, a character, and it has a position in life,” Maal said in the statement. “I think that’s what makes this album so powerful—it is totally about now and where I am now, the dreams I have of the past and the future.” Sin...

Lindsey Buckingham has shared a statement remembering his friend and longtime Fleetwood Mac bandmate Christine McVie, who died Wednesday (November 30) at the age of 79. “Christine McVie’s sudden passing is profoundly heartbreaking,” Buckingham wrote in an Instagram post. “Not only were she and I part of the magical family of Fleetwood Mac, to me Christine was a musical comrade, a friend, a soul mate, a sister.” Buckingham continued: For over four decades, we helped each other create a beautiful body of work and a lasting legacy that continues to resonate today. I feel very lucky to have known her. Though she will be deeply missed, her spirit will live on through that body of work and that legacy. McVie’s family shared the news of her death yesterday, noting in a statement that she “passed ...