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Shania Twain has announced a new album: Queen of Me arrives February 3, 2023, via Republic Nashville. The country singer has also shared a new single, “Last Day of Summer.” To coincide with the release, Twain is also embarking on a tour that will take her through North America and Europe starting in April 2023. Check out the new song and upcoming dates below. Queen of Me is Twain’s sixth album, following 2017’s Now. The new album also features the previously released singles “Waking Up Dreaming” and “Not Just a Girl,” which featured in Twain’s Netflix documentary, Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl, released earlier this year. Read Pitchfork’s Sunday Review of Shania Twain’s Come On Over. All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy somethi...

Patti Smith Group’s song “Rock n Roll N****r,” which has drawn condemnation since its release on Easter in 1978, has disappeared from streaming services, Rolling Stone reports. Smith has made no comment on the removal, and it is unclear who made the decision. For decades, she defended the use of the slur, saying she wanted to reclaim the term for artists and people on the margins of society. In a Rolling Stone interview promoting Easter upon its release, Smith used the N-word to describe Mick Jagger in a similar spirit. When the interviewer pointed out that Jagger had not “suffered like anyone who grew up in Harlem,” she skirted around the question. In 1996, she acknowledged that “redefining” the “archaic slang term as a badge for those contributing on the fringe of society was not favorab...

Jerry Lee Lewis has died, The Associated Press reports. A cause of death has not been revealed, but, in recent years, Lewis dealt with various illnesses, such as acute bronchitis, which forced him to miss a birthday celebration in 2016. The controversial rock’n’roll pioneer, often referred to by his nickname “The Killer,” was 87 years old. Lewis’ death was erroneously reported by TMZ earlier this week. Lewis was born in Ferriday, Louisiana. From an early age, he played music with his cousins. He studied blues musicians at the local honky-tonk. He enrolled briefly at the Southwestern Bible Institute in Waxahatchie, Texas, but was kicked out for playing wild piano renditions of hymns. He eventually got a job in 1956 as a session musician at Sun Records in Memphis. One day, Lew...

Back in 2020, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon launched the nonpartisan For Wisconsin initiative to get out the vote in his home state. He’s now announced a handful of events “to build enthusiasm for voting” before Election Day (Tuesday, November 8). In addition to information on early voting locations, the events will feature limited-edition merchandise. In a statement, Vernon said: We’ve started For Wisconsin because normal wasn’t good enough. We’re all taught differing political and philosophical beliefs early on; we want to continue the conversations that take us beyond those differences. What can be better? That’s what we’re asking. No one is more powerful than a citizenry that is empowered and together. We’ll be asking, talking, listening, and expressing ourselves through meetings, con...