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Young Jesus Announce New Album, Share Song Featuring Tomberlin
Los Angeles–based group Young Jesus have announced a new album. It’s called Shepherd Head and it arrives September 16 via Saddle Creek. Today, the band has shared lead single “Oceans,” along with a music video directed by Stuart McClave and shot by Kadri Koop in Coney Island, Brooklyn. The new song features additional vocals from Young Jesus’ labelmate Tomberlin. Check out the visual below. Shepherd Head follows Young Jesus’ 2020 full-length Welcome to Conceptual Beach. Frontman John Rossiter crafted the album following the death of a close friend, opting for a collaborative and improvisational songwriting process. Instead of the band’s usual method of rehearsing for months prior to recording, Rossiter and his band cut Shepherd Head live-in-studio in less than a week. Rossiter also ad...
The 1975 Announce 2022 Tour, Share Video for New Song “Happiness”
Revisit Pitchfork’s interview, “The 1975’s Matty Healy on 9 Things That Inspired New Album Notes on a Conditional Form.” All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The 1975: “At Their Very Best” North America 2022 Tour The 1975: 11-03 Uncasville, CT – Mohegan Arena11-04 Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway11-07 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden11-09 Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion11-10 Washington, D.C. – The Anthem11-12 Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena11-13 Nashville, TN – Nashville Municipal Auditorium11-15 Grand Prairie, TX – Texas Trust CU Theatre11-16 Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall11-17 Austin, TX ...
Watch Rina Sawayama’s New “Hold the Girl” Video
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SoundCloud Announces Layoffs Impacting Nearly 20 Percent of Workforce
SoundCloud has announced that it will be laying off roughly 20 percent of its workforce due to recent changes in the economic and financial landscape, according to reports by Billboard and Variety. “During this difficult time, we are focused on providing the support and resources to those transitioning while reinforcing our commitment to executing our mission to lead what’s next in music,” the company wrote in a statement shared with Variety. CEO Michael Weissman sent an email to SoundCloud employees on Wednesday (August 3) announcing the layoffs, which will impact employees worldwide, as Billboard reports. “Today’s change positions SoundCloud for the long run and puts us on a path to sustained profitability,” Weissman says in the email. “We have already begun to make prudent financial dec...
Rina Sawayama Drops Introspective “Hold The Girl” Visual
Rina Sawayama has returned with a time-warping music video for the title track of her forthcoming sophomore album, Hold The Girl. The visual, directed by Ali Kurr, sees the Japanese-British artist trapped in a 19th-century farmhouse until she is ultimately able to free herself from a time loop. ”Sometimes I just wanna run away / Leave behind that old me, start again,” she sings on the introspective cut. “Then I’ll remember who I’m really made of / And she’s been hide-and-seeking, waiting all alone.” On the track’s creation, Sawayama explained in a statement, “I had gone to therapy and had a revelation, so I decided to write this song…that was the start of it. I was crying before going into the studio.” The accompanying video serves to represent Sawayama’s personal journey of real...
Kodak Black and French Montana Are Teaming Up for a Joint Album
Kodak Black and French Montana are no strangers to collaboration. Over the years, the two artists have worked together on several projects, beginning with DJ Khaled’s “Pick These H**s Apart.” In 2019, Black and Montana appeared on “Lockjaw” together and last year, Black was featured on Montana’s fourth studio album, They Got Amnesia, on the track “Mopstick.” This year, the frequent duo will be joining forces once again to create an entire album. “Me and French Montana gon’ f***ing around and drop an album soon,” Black said on Instagram Live. Montana then confirmed the news by reposting the clip of Black on Twitter, writing that the joint album is “coming soon.” KODAC X MONTANA ALBUM SHEEEESH ? coming soon pic.twitter.com/A8nkcr9tdL — French Montana (@FrencHMonTanA) August 3, 2022 In anothe...
Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 Captures Unknown Horrors of the Three-Day Disaster: Review
The Pitch: The world of documentary film seems to believe in one thing: Why have just one documentary covering a disastrous music festival when you can have two? Unlike the paired Netflix and Hulu documentaries which investigated the wildness of Fyre Fest, though, Netflix’s new docuseries Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99 at least has a good year or so of distance from HBO’s Woodstock ’99, while rehashing much of the same material. It’s Not a Three-Hour Movie: Trainwreck (previously known as Clusterfuck, and streaming today on Netflix), does have a distinct advantage over the HBO doc — rather than compressing the full breadth of the three-day disaster into one 110-minute film, the series consists of three episodes, structured to mirror the three days of the actual festival. While the episodic stru...
Law & Order Writer Says Alex Jones Trial Too “Dumb” for Fiction
Forget about Law & Order‘s dun-dun, this is just dumb-dumb. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is currently standing trial for a defamation lawsuit brought by the parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, but his own legal team have torpedoed the case. On Wednesday, August 3rd, it was revealed that Jones’ lawyers accidentally emailed the full contents of his phone to the attorneys representing the parents, in the process providing dozens of emails and texts that contradicted Jones’ sworn testimony and suggesting he committed perjury. The reveal was so bizarre that longtime Law & Order writer David Slack weighed in, writing that the twist was too outlandish for fiction, because “on Law & Order we wouldn’t have let a lawyer do something that dumb...
Local H Announce Here Comes the Zoo 20th Anniversary Tour
Local H are celebrating the 20th anniversary of their album Here Comes the Zoo with a Fall 2022 North American tour. The extensive run of dates begins September 11th in Omaha, Nebraska, and runs through December 13th in Toronto. The veteran alt-rockers will hit most markets along the way. Tickets for select shows are on sale now via Ticketmaster. Related Video Here Comes the Zoo was released in March 2002 marked Local H’s fourth studio album. It followed their most successful effort, 1996’s As Good as Dead (featuring the widely-heard hit “Bound for the Floor”) and the acclaimed 1998 follow-up Pack Up the Cats. Advertisement Despite their strong association with post-Nirvana grunge in the 1990s, Local H would barrel into the new millennium without sacrificing their signature sound...
Joker: Folie à Deux Receives Fall 2024 Release Date
Todd Phillips’ Joker 2, aka Joker: Folie à Deux, has received a release date. It will be out on October 4th, 2024, according to a report from Deadline. Phillips confirmed Joker 2 in June by sharing a photo of the script along with a shot of Joaquin Phoenix reading the draft. Just like the original 2019 film, it was penned by Phillips and Scott Silver. Folie à Deux translates to “shared madness” in French, and it could be indeed just that. Last month, news broke that the sequel will be a musical, with Lady Gaga in talks to play Harley Quinn. Production is reportedly on track for this December. Advertisement Related Video Back in November 2019, Joker became the most profitable comic book movie of all time (and the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever), leading to Warn...
The Game Postpones ‘Drillmatic’ Album, Announces New Release Date
The Game took to social media on Monday to share that he would be postponing the release of his forthcoming LP Drillmatic after a rough couple of weeks. He posted a photo of his bandaged fingers, paired with a lengthy Instagram caption explaining his reasoning for the delay. “PSA to any & everyone it may concern,” The Game wrote in the caption. “I’ve always prided myself on my transparency in tow with sharing every part of my life & myself with my family, friends & my fans… the past two weeks have been a nightmare for me. I have witnessed disloyalty on levels unimaginable by people I’ve trusted with my heart, money, career & livelihood.” “Not only have I been backstabbed & betrayed. I’ve been left to pick up the pieces alone,” he continued. “I’m in no way shape or form ...
Beyoncé Drops “Break My Soul” Remix EP Featuring Honey Dijon, will.i.am and More
Beyoncé surprised fans on Wednesday with a four-track “Break My Soul” remix EP, featuring revamped cuts of her popular RENAISSANCE track by Honey Dijon, will.i.am, Terry Hunter and Nita Aviance. The Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am centers on the track’s core beat with a simple, bouncy approach, and Hunter implements church service organs for an ethereal house workout anthem. Meanwhile, Aviance delivers an almost 10-minute rendition with a dream-like cadence, and Dijon clocks in at six-and-a-half minutes with a drum-heavy take. Dijon, who is featured as a producer on RENAISSANCE tracks “Cozy” and “Alien Superstar,” took to Instagram to share her gratitude to Bey following the album’s debut. “Thank you @Beyonce for this incredible moment,” she wrote. “Meeting and working with you on ‘RENAISS...
