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It was a chaotic scene at DC's Shoreham Hotel when the Beatles stayed there in February 1964. The band was in town for its first public American concert, and thousands of fans flocked to the hotel, clogging Calvert Street. The Beatles had rented an entire floor, with guards stationed at the stairwells to prevent anyone from sneaking in. They stayed in a presidential suite, as general manager Phil Hollywood later recalled in an interview with the Washington Post.

Nick Quan's song " Heavensafe," which runs big feelings through a bigger pedalboard, features a funny declaration: "I've turned to slop again." This past August, when the extraordinary guitarist released Warbrained, shoegaze might have been saying so, too. By then, its latest-and most puzzling-progeny was " cloud rock," a budding vanguard that subverted its central extremes: numbness first, and noise, if at all, second.

The autopsy report, obtained by , was carried out three hours after Quintanilla's death. Her death, which had been ruled a homicide by the coroner's report, was caused by a bullet wound that had entered through her shoulder. The bullet's path continued through her ribs until it eventually punctured her chest and exited her body from her upper chest. The autopsy report shows that the gunshot wound hit the subclavian artery - a major blood vessel that brings blood to the arms, neck and head.

Just before making the short walk from our makeshift green room (a converted office) to the Tiny Desk down the hall, the band members held hands and sang, "This will be the very best Tiny Desk." It's the kind of deadpan humor long found in the band's music, but also in their performance, as Cocker crooned, cooed and danced his way through four tracks.

We got into a bad car accident as kids. Me, my little cousins, my brothers and sisters, we got hit by a garbage truck. I remember waking up, laying in the middle of the street. Thankfully, none of us died. I was gone from kindergarten for like a month. When I got back to school, there was a show-and-tell kind of thing. I just got back, so I didn't have nothing to show or tell.

Right now, Pitchfork's editors are furiously debating the ranking of our year-end best albums and songs lists, which we'll be bringing to you soon. But first, we'd like to invite you to share your picks. Today, we're opening the 2025 Readers' Poll. Which albums and songs were your favorite? Tell us below. To make sure your vote is counted, please submit it by Sunday, November 30 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern.

Waxahatchee have announced a run of North American tour dates for 2026, and this time Katie Crutchfield and her band are bringing along a co-headliner: MJ Lenderman. They will perform both solo and together at shows starting next April at Atlanta's Symphony Hall, with further stops in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Toronto, Minneapolis, Seattle, and elsewhere, with support from Nashville country artist Brennan Wedl. Check out the full itinerary below.

It was one of those rare pearls, pressed in the dark clam of the pandemic free jam sessions live-streamed from Cohen's Harlem apartment. Every week, the Trio's joyful tones (with then-bassist Russel Hall and drummer Kyle Poole) buzzed from devices around the world. Emmet Cohen's front room became a hotbed of generously performed jazz standards and new compositions. As lockdown eased, the Emmet's Place performers diversified and its visual slickness, set design and musicians' haircuts improved.

On Thursday night, Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny took home the biggest prize at the Latin Grammy awards: His genre-bending homage to his island, DeBI TiRAR MaS FOToS, won album of the year. Despite the fact that he had a dozen trophies in his case before the night even began, he had never won any in the show's three major categories album, record or song of the year.

An in-demand headliner in dark rooms worldwide and one of techno's most distinctive producers, Wata Igarashi has achieved a perfect harmony between his work as a musician and a selector. Born in Tokyo in the late '80s, with significant parts of his youth spent in England and Spain, he spent time in skate punk and avant-garde jazz circles before taking to DJing and production.

I have never shared that with anybody, Truth said. According to Truth, he suffered an injury in the ring, and after surgery, he caught an infection. In 2022, during a match against Grayson Waller, Truth tore his quad tendon. After receiving surgery, he experienced four types of infections that he says could have been career-ending, and the doctors were even debating amputation if the infection did not heal.

Tonight is not about me, said the singer-songwriter, who is a worship pastor at Seacoast Church in South Carolina. But it is about one man and His name is Jesus. Lake proceeded to turn the Shark Tank into a massive revival tent, leading what the artist announced from the stage as a crowd of 15,000 attendees through a 2 1/2-hour-plus set of some of the most powerful contemporary Christian music (CCM) songs of recent years.

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 highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff's favorite new music.

As you know, the Band do not want these tapes released, not least as they haven't heard them despite you saying you would provide copies long ago. You know that, as a band, Black Sabbath don't take things lying down and you can be assured that if you go ahead with this against the Band's wishes we will take any action where their rights are infringed, both here and in America.

When you hear Yaya Bey talk about the state of the world, there's no question where she stands on the important issues. She's straightforward and fearless in discussing politics, race, the economy and how all of those things tie into her music and the way her music is received by the industry, especially as a Black artist. But that doesn't mean her new album, do it afraid, is heavy or humorless.

Frequent collaborators Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) and MJ Lenderman have announced a 2026 co-headlining North American tour, where the artists will perform separately as solo artists and together. The 18-date tour kicks off in Atlanta on April 13th, with subsequent stops in cities including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and a requisite show in Toronto to qualify as a North American trek. All dates will feature support from Brennan Wedl.

A decade and a half ago, Daniel Lopatin shelled out what might be the best hundred bucks he ever spent. On the internet, he'd come across a guy selling bootleg DVD compilations of decades-old TV commercials culled from Saturday-morning cartoons, daytime soaps, and late-night cable: Wrigley's spearmint gum, Hershey's chocolate bars, Heinz Alphagetti. Dated, kitschy stuff, thick with chintzy synths and VHS buzz.

Dayseeker have announced a Spring 2026 North American tour with support from Northlane, Wind Walkers, and sace6. "The Pale Moonlight Tour" kicks off May 1st in Huntingon, New York, and runs through May 30th in San Diego. The route includes a five-date run in Canada, as well as US gigs across the East Coast, Midwest, and West Coast.

Des Rocs has always strived to recapture the sort of slicked-back, sweaty grit that made parents scared of rock music in the first place. His songs - which have soundtracked UFC bouts and the new Borderlands 4 video game ("The Land") - want to spark collective superconscious memories of drag races and beer bottles shattering on chickenwire. New single "The Juice" captures that rebellious spirit better than ever.

"African Imperial Wizard is a middle-aged white man," the band wrote in their Instagram post. "We had the extreme displeasure of playing with him last night not knowing who he was until he came backstage and, to our shock, took off his hood. The Imperial Wizard (which is a term for a 'Ku Klux Klan' leader) obscures his white identity to the extent that he even wears gloves to cover his hands all while projecting a pastiche of Black African 'tribal' imagery on screen."

I think I saw Akram first at the Bhavan Centre in London when he was about 16. He moved like lightning. His speed was incredible but his precision as well was really inspiring to watch. He approached me in the late 90s to work on a project called Fix and then I continued to work with him on many, many other projects.

Congregate a group of humans in a room, turn on some music with a catchy beat, and you can bet that a sizable chunk of them will start to groove in one way or another. We are irresistibly drawn to move in sync when we hear music. Why? It turns out that our ability to dance to music may be intimately connected to something seemingly unrelated: our capacity for complex speech.

The show boasts a remarkably talented cast (including Ansel Elgort as the bare-chested, guitar-bashing Godfather) who deftly split the difference between stunning dance moves and the expressive yet subtle dramatics this story-about a young man struggling to find his place in the world while clashing with friends, family and himself-demands. Lead performer Paris Fitzpatrick as Jimmy was revelatory, especially in the final scene where he writhes and spins through a near-suicidal emotional breakdown on a cliff overlooking a raging sea.

The site was launched "January 1st, 2002, on a whim," founder Scott Lapatine told The Verge. Originally, this early staple of the music blog era was focused almost entirely on music discovery and posting MP3s. "It was the early days of like Windows Media Player and Real Player," Scott remembers. Today, the site is focused on music journalism and has just relaunched to keep up with a media landscape being overrun by AI.

This week when I got home off the road, and went to have some tests done (like I usually do) and my voice and blood tests have raised some concerns. I have been ordered by my doctor to take a break from touring until the end of the year.

Quick: tell me how old you are by telling me which app you used to download free music. Was it Napster? Kazaa? Usenet? Gnutella? WinMX? Morpheus? The Pirate Bay? Were you, I don't know, sending your friends songs on AIM or BBM? The possibilities are endless. For a decade or so, if you were online, you were probably stealing music.

Ask any Latina growing up in the 1990s, and she'll know the variety show "Sábado Gigante." For me, the show was life-changing. I won the competition when I was only 6 years old. Not long after that, I performed for a room full of Sony Executives in Key West and signed with the label. I started my singing career as "La Chiquita Divina," singing traditional Mariachi music. I was born in LA, but learned these songs from my mother, who is Mexican.

Opera has captured me in a way that seems really familiar,

Hüsker Dü's "Flip Your Wig" isn't so much a song as a status update from a world before social media. The excitable opening track from the namesake 1985 album is an on-the-ground dispatch from the eye of the hype storm that engulfed the Minneapolis trio as they transitioned from SST hardcore antagonists to Warner Brothers-backed alt-rock trailblazers. The song marked the rare occasion where both principal songwriters-guitarist/vocalist Bob Mould and singing drummer Grant Hart-shared lead vocals, despite their notoriously thorny relationship.