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Two months after Swedish rapper/enigma Bladee dropped a pair of singles, he’s back with a new song called “Blondie” and an album announcement. Produced by fellow Drain Gang member Whitearmor, Sulfur Surfer arrives May 20 on Trash Island. A tracklist hasn’t been revealed, but one song is confirmed to feature David Tibet’s long-running doom folk project Current 93. Below, watch the spooky, Joe Ward-directed video for “Blondie,” set in a tunnel with built-in Fincher lighting.Bladee’s last proper album, Cold Visions, came out in 2024. He’s kept busy since then, dropping an EP, Ste the Beautiful Martyr 1st Attempt, and guesting…
President Donald Trump had a wonderful time on his big trip to China. After all, what's not to like? In a series of meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Trump delivered a stunning highlight reel of flawless international diplomacy, breathlessly praising the competing global superpower at every turn while largely brushing off contentious issues like trade, cybersecurity concerns, Taiwan's right to self determination, and China's support for Iran. The art of the deal in action. The Chinese, for their part, have proven that they know exactly what the president likes. Xi kicked off Trump's visit with a rapturous welcoming committee…
Anderson .Paak's K-Pops! (Music from and inspired by K-Pops! Motion Picture)due May 29, started out as a companion album to his directorial debut, K-Pops!, which hits Netflix May 30, after a theatrical run earlier this year. The album is packed with A-list K-pop guest stars, living up to the family comedy's setting in South Korea's idol industry: aespa, NMIXX, Joshua of Seventeen, Soyeon of (G)I-DLE, Hongjoong of ATEEZ, JO1, G-Dragon, Jay Park, Chung Ha, Lngshot, Crush, Dean, and Kevin Woo are all on board. But it's also full of Paak's own vocals, and thoroughly guided by his lush, retro-leaning sensitivity,…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Table of Contents View More Choosing to wear headphones instead of earbuds means you've made the conscious choice to sacrifice portability for audio quality, but you can take that commitment to sound quality a step further by picking up a pair of the best wired headphones. Being tethered to your audio source is obviously less convenient and can cause snags, but it's still the most reliable way to get high-quality audio from the source to your ears. It's…
Shortly after the halfway point of this delightfully strange, often enchanting, always fascinating album the music gets weird. After deploying monstrous amounts of bass, a gospel choir, big drum parts, a wide range of rhythmic textures, acoustic and electric guitars and all sorts of pulses, reverbs and sound effects, Harry Styles asks himself: why not combine all these things?Season 2 Weight Loss it starts with an electrical noise, a hum, something starting or producing feedback. Then keyboards come into play that would look great on a Kraftwerk record. Drum-and-bass breakbeats start, only the beats fall in strange places, as if…
Charli XCX has discussed her recent single ‘Rock Music’ and revealed that she found it “really interesting” to see people have such strong responses towards it. The ‘Von Dutch’ singer dropped the track last Friday (May 8), and it saw her take a step back from the club vibe of the hit 2024 album ‘Brat’, and instead lean into a more gritty, guitar-led sound. It came with a grungy music video that featured collaborators A.G. Cook, Finn Keane (formerly known as Easyfun) and her husband, The 1975‘s George Daniel, as her rock band – and soon sparked a mixed reaction…
With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new drops available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums from Kevin Morby, Drake, Smerz, and Jeff Parker. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)Kevin Morby: Little Wide Open [Dead Oceans]Little Wide Open, Kevin Morby’s eighth…
Nick Valensi, one of the original guitarists in the Strokes, is dropping out of an unspecified portion of the band’s upcoming performances. “Nick will be taking a temporary break from the scheduled tour, but we look forward to his return,” reads a message posted to the Strokes’ Instagram story and viewed by Pitchfork. Valensi will be replaced by Longwave frontman Steve Schiltz, “who many of you will remember from our early NY days.” Pitchfork has reached out to the Strokes’ representatives for further comment.Valensi had already been absent for most of this year’s Strokes shows, though he returned for their…
Trump administration continues their trend of turning pop culture moments into controversy-seeking social media posts The White House took time out from the Iran war and raging inflation to celebrate the arrival of Drake's Iceman with a controversy-seeking social media post. On the official White House account, the Trump administration shared an image spoofing the Iceman cover, with a diamond-encrusted glove holding a similarly blinged-out chain with MAGA on it. “ICED OUT,” the White House wrote. The post was the latest stab at cultural relevance by the White House, which commonly skews hit songs or artists of the moment in…
