Thurston Moore is obsessed with jazz. Not the mellow, easy-listening variety that serves as background music in elevators and waiting rooms. No, Moore goes for the hard stuff: wailing saxophones, arrhythmic bass lines, drums that follow beats so out of time they might as well come from the deepest reaches of space. Call it broadcasts from Planet Jazz. We're talking free jazz, an experiment in improvisational music that captivated the world's greatest jazz musicians in the second half of the 20th century.
Mayne was a very honest, straightforward guy, sometimes to a fault, said his longtime music partner, guitarist Mitch Greenhill. He was very loyal and devoted to traditional music but ready to take it to new places.
His frequent allegro cadence accents how deftly he changes direction within verses. "Silent Film," set to mellow chords and a shuffling breakbeat, is casually breathless: "I roll the dough and cook it/Was juggin' cause in a world so cold, you just throw on a hoodie/I see the limit and push it, sneaking over the edge/Made a million off of my grief, none of my people rose from the dead," Mavi raps, subtly pausing-and stretching and compressing words-to keep the meter.
I can't get her messy, bracing new album, which crisply dissects her failed marriage, out of my head. I'm all for processing romantic wounds in private: consuming large tubs of ice cream, drawing the window shades, crying hot tears into the depths of a down pillow. Breakups can be agonizing, even immobilizing; sometimes, wallowing is the ideal way forward. Eventually, you get sick of yourself and move on, though this can take a while-sometimes a long while. That's also okay.
Who the fuck is Madeline? Her name is star Natalie Tippett, and she has some thoughts about the "false narrative" presented in Lily Allen's new album, West End Girl, which dropped in October. The identity of the alleged mistress at the center of Allen's fifth studio album, which details the dissolution of her marriage to Stranger Things David Harbour, has been the source of much fascination for weeks now.
Such is the case with Doom Xmas, the brainchild of Grammy-winning Spanish producer Cookin' Soul, which refashions the work of late cult rapper MF Doom into Christmas music. There are filthy Grinch soundtrack flips, hectic Latin Christmas skits and a chopped-and-screwed Nat King Cole that'll change the way you hear The Christmas Song. It's an internet cult classic. Every Christmas, a carolling cohort of underground rap fans make their way to the comment sections to write something like: They playin' Mariah already, I'm blastin' Doom!
From her early teens, Su was drawn to music, taking singing lessons and mastering the piano. She found inspiration within the electronic sounds of artists like Charli XCX and SOPHIE, eventually leading her to London to pursue music production at BIMM. Collaborating with innovative talents like Big Softy's s.g. cackle helped shape her unique sound, blending clunky, avant-garde guitar riffs with pop sensibilities.
The Academy Awards have announced its 2026 shortlist for 12 categories, including Best Original Song and Best Original Score. Among the 15 potential Song nominees, Nine Inch Nails, Ed Sheeran, and one of those earworm tracks from KPop Demon Hunters all made the initial cut. On Original Score, Jerskin Fendrix for Bugonia, Alexandre Desplat for Frankenstein, and Oneohtrix Point Never's Daniel Lopatin for Marty Supreme are here, alongside 17 other selections, You can check out the full list below.
Dionne Warwick is being sued by a rights firm that claims she has backed out of a deal that entitles them to "hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars" for work recovering her royalties, court records show. The company, Artists Rights Enforcement Corporation, cites its negotiation of terms and payment for the "Walk on By" sample in Doja Cat's " Paint the Town Red " as a key payday for which it is owed an ongoing cut of royalties. Warwick's team did not immediately respond to Pitchfork's request for comment.
It's all coming back to audiences now. Broadway is about to get a little wetter, louder and a lot more Céline. Titanique, the gloriously unhinged musical comedy that reimagines Titanic through the powerhouse ballads and fever-dream narration of Céline Dion, is officially sailing onto Broadway this spring for a limited run. The award-winning hit will begin performances on March 26, 2026, with opening night set for April 12 at the St. James Theatre (most recently home to The Queen of Versailles).
The man behind the saxophone was a brash inventor named Adolphe Sax. Adolphe Sax was born in Dinant, Belgium in 1814. He had a tragicomic childhood that nearly killed him before he was able to invent anything. As a child he fell down three flights of stairs, drank sulfuric acid mistaking it for milk, survived multiple burns, and once fell asleep in a room full of freshly varnished furniture. His mother said, "He's a child condemned to misfortune; he won't live."
The album kicks off with the song "Like Water, Like Love," providing theme music for an adventure into the depths. The rhythmic thud of Pixley's cello is paired with drums and a violin that sounds tailor-made for a lovely jaunt into the unknown. By the end of the song, the drums are stripped from the track and the jaunting is over; the only thing left is Pixley's haunting hymns and the umph of the string instrument. The journey toward darkness begins.
The song, in which a young woman confesses to being simply "a little much" for the people around her, is built around a steady, descending piano part that sounds more like the skeletal framework musicians use to teach each other chord changes than a fully fleshed-out song. Listening to it feels almost like sitting next to the singer as she's coming up with the song in real time, noodling away at the piano in the early morning hours,
Chances are if you've spent time out in the world this year, you've heard Audrey Nuna. The Jersey-born singer and rapper is one of three singing voices in runaway phenomenon KPop Demon Hunters, lending her talents to Mira (that's the one with pink pigtails). Fresh off a performance at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Nuna swung by to try her hand at Cinematrix Live. Despite it being her first crack at the game, her cinephile bona fides shone through.
Howard Stern has announced a new three-year contract with SiriusXM, putting to rest months of speculation about his future with the company. As part of the new deal, Stern said he will host 75 episodes per year, down from the roughly 100 episodes he currently hosts. Stern, 71, said the reduction in episodes was his choice, as he wanted "more free time" while still "continuing to be on radio."
As the nights get longer, it's time to fuel up on a high-octane evening of music with a Surf Punk Night at the Caravan with headliners the Bloat Floaters! Three brothers, synched up like a three-headed surfer riding a tidal wave, which means lo-fi beach cred mixed with a lot of punk angst. These bros bring a San Joaquin Delta sensibility to the ripping surf.
How do we discover new music? It used to be mostly through friends, record stores, and radio. Now, friends, some radio stations, and music platforms still play a role. Spotify's annual wrap-up is an ideal time to see what new music has reached our ears. The European Union is funding a project to audit algorithmic music discovery because it believes there may be bias and a lack of transparency in this process.
Then again, how could she possibly try to argue that the Eras Tour was a chill little lark? This is a woman who describes herself in "Bejeweled" as one who "did all the extra credit, then got graded on a curve." People who aren't obsessed with storytelling don't conceive, design, and perform a career-spanning tour packed with mini-narratives before concluding triumphantly in a burst of shimmery jackets, confetti, and literal fireworks.
The 25-year-old artist celebrated the opening of his and Tony Cassanelli's art exhibition by having his superstar mother and director father by his side. In a rare reunion shared on his Instagram, Rocco Ritchie is smiling and standing in between Guy Ritchie and Madonna. Madonna is in burgundy tights with a black leather coat and red gloves, while "The Gentlemen" director is in a black turtleneck, pants and plaid blazer.
UNBROKEN Then, Now and Forever - the biopic and the book officially coming 2026. If I can survive rocking out on shag mustard-colored carpet on my first guitar ('technically a ukulele' lol) and remain as excited now as I was then, and survive the highs, the lows, good people and the downright maliciousness in the business I've chosen to be in and still get to rock with my friends with a smile on my face on the stage today.
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It has been inside me that long. I tend to focus my writing on humans and the spirit within. So writing about concrete and steel felt like a no go. Like I'm going to write a song about a car next? But of course cities are made by humans so they are human, too.
On her sixth album, pop's queen of the dramatic reinvention did something more shocking than meat dresses and humanoid motorbikes: Lady Gaga looked back. Unlike the smooth tech-house flavour of its predecessor Chromatica, and diametrically opposed to the dinner jazz of her work with Tony Bennett, on Mayhem she returned to the operatic electroclash that powered her first two albums. There are synths that sound like a Dyson on its last legs.
Downdetector is showing over 10,000 reports. My boyfriend texted me those dreaded four words: "Is your Spotify down?" Sure enough his, mine and thousands of other users' Spotify accounts appear to be down and out at the moment, with Downdetector recording over 10,000 reports from users.
