MUSIC
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Ecco2k Sets New Album Echo
Seven years after releasing his debut solo album E, Ecco2k has returned with a follow-up. Echo lands on the rapper-producer’s own label, 9th, this Thursday, November 12. The record contains previously released songs “Aldehyde and Ketones” and “Sky Burial,” plus 10 additional tracks. Per press materials, Echo follows “a vagabond character who wanders the world carrying a broadcast antenna and…
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Richard Lloyd, Television Guitarist, Dies at 75
Richard Lloyd, the co-founding guitarist of Television, has died, The New York Times reports. The cause was cholangiocarcinoma, a bile duct cancer. He was 75. In August, a GoFundMe was launched to raise money for Lloyd’s treatment. “His loving wife Sheila and his dog Willie Mays were with him at the end,” his family said in a statement to Rolling…
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Bob Dylan, Wearing Hoodie, Meets Pope
Pope Leo XIV granted Bob Dylan a private audience at the Vatican this morning (November 4), further cementing his downtown bona fides after welcoming Patti Smith in July. Dylan, the mythically private and fuss-refusing Nobel laureate, wore a black hoodie, hood up—seemingly held aloft by a black baseball cap—for the occasion, in evidence in a photo published by the Vatican’s…
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Juan Atkins, Co-Founder of Techno Music, Dies at 64
Juan Atkins, the lifelong producer and DJ who co-founded Detroit techno music, has died; Green Smith Artists, Atkins’ management company, confirmed his death. Atkins was slated to perform at Yu Yu Club in Mexico City last night (October 31). He was 64. As a member of the Belleville Three, Cybotron, and Borderland, Atkins’ impact on electronic music is, at this…
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Phoebe Bridgers Announces Madison Square Garden EP
Before she embarked on her no-phones Lost Tour, Phoebe Bridgers held a series of no-phones gigs at intimate venues across the country. She closed things out at Madison Square Garden (a show our own Hattie Lindert described as a showcase of “bigger belts, more elastic vocal runs, and thornier topics” in “her oeuvre of quiet devastation”). In keeping with the…
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Ecco2K, Whait, Angelo LeRoi, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and…
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Slayyyter Cancels Remaining UK and European Tour Dates
Slayyyter is calling off the last shows of her ongoing UK and European tour on doctor’s orders. In an Instagram story viewed by Pitchfork, the pop singer wrote, “I am heartbroken to share after multiple doctor visits i have laryngitis and vocal cord tears,” adding, “Because of this, i am forced to cancel the remaining UK/EU dates to avoid permanent…
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Romain Gavras Is Bummed About Those AI Versions of “Storm”
Anyone who caught Yung Lean’s MTV VMAs performance of “Storm,” his short film with director Romain Gavras’ audiovisual project Gener8ion, is no stranger to the complex choreography that went into the project. Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped a bevy of copycats from “recreating” the film with AI, subbing in Yung Lean and the video’s crew of young male dancers for dogs,…
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A$AP Rocky Recruits Jeremih and Reggie for “Shroom Clouds”
A$AP Rocky has finally dropped “Shroom Clouds,” a song he performed a handful of times in 2021 and ’22 before putting it on the back burner. Now completed with guests Reggie and Jeremih, the song is out via A$AP Worldwide/RCA. Check it out below. Produced by Sleeping Bear and Hector Delgado, “Shroom Clouds”—previously titled “Mushroom Clouds”—is the first taste of…
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Dijon and Mk.gee Are a Wedding Band Now
Dijon and Mk.gee have been tight friends and collaborators for a minute now, but the duo took their relationship to the next level over the weekend: they formed a wedding band. The nuptials of Jack Karaszewski and Danica Kleinknecht occasioned the big debut. The duo busted out some killer covers, including Big Star’s “Thirteen” (for the first dance), Wings’ “Let…
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