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ADÉLA aired a new song called ‘Boys’ over the weekend, during a triumphant Reading 2026 set – you can listen to it below. During her set, which also included favourites ‘Ain’t In LA’ and ‘Sex On The Beat’, the musician premiered the song and introduced it with a short explanation about what the song is about. ADÉLA said: “The next song is a new one. It’s basically about being at the club with your girls and getting bothered by boys” You can listen to the new song here: Elsewhere in the set, ADÉLA opened up about her Slovakian roots before…
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. The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its only guiding principle is that these are the songs you’d gladly send to a friend.This week’s Pitchfork Selects playlist features TK, TK, and…
AI slop continues to deliver insight into the mind of Donal Trump, who has relied increasingly on hallucinogenic visuals spat out by generative computer algorithms to reinforce his delusions. As the war with Iran continues to drag out — and drag down his approval ratings — Trump is resorting to increasingly desperate ploys to gin up enthusiasm from his base. As part of that, he’s been regularly reaching for AI fantasies depicting him as a successful president. Earlier in the weekend, Trump shared AI-generated videos showing a flock of geese sporting his signature blond overcomb and holding assault rifles. They were ostensibly…
The superstar’s Argentina jersey is likely going to become one of the most collectible jerseys in all of sports If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. As many fans expected, Lionel Messi is retiring from Argentina’s national soccer team. Today, Messi confirmed his retirement from international play in an Instagram post showing a handwritten note. In a footnote to the caption, the GOAT wrote, “*I wrote these words on July 21st, two days after the final. Today, after what happened with my dad, I am…
Ella Langley’s hit song has now spent 20 weeks atop the chart, making it the longest reign for a non-holiday track Last week, Ella Langley‘s “Choosin’ Texas” hit its 19th week atop the Billboard Hot 100, tying the records of songs by Shaboozey and Lil Nas X. Now, after entering its 20th week at Number One, the track has cruised past her fellow countrymen and is the second longest-running Number One single in Billboard Hot 100 history. “Choosin’ Texas” was first released in October 2025 and landed Langley her first Number One song in February. The track, while already fairly…
David Fair, who co-founded the outré punk duo Half Japanese with his brother, Jad, has died. Jad Fair posted an uncaptioned photo of the pair together on Facebook yesterday (August 30), and confirmed in a statement to Rolling Stone that David died of cancer. He was 74 years old.The origin story of Half Japanese is as chaotic as their unpindownable music: Formed in 1974 either in Michigan or Maryland, the duo evolved from scrappy twentysomethings messing around in a bedroom for an audience of each other, to scrappy twentysomethings releasing homemade cassettes recorded while messing around in a bedroom for…
Amyl & The Sniffers’ Amy Taylor joined Viagra Boys to perform their cover of John Prine’s ‘In Spite Of Ourselves’ at FORWARDS Bristol 2026 – watch footage below. The frontwoman appeared during the Swedish punks’ set at Clifton Downs yesterday (August 30), marking the first time they had performed their collaborative version of the song live. “Against all odds honey you’re the big door prize,” Taylor wrote on Instagram after the performance, quoting a lyric from the song. “Amyl joined Viagra Boys yesterday on stage in Bristol UK to do our cover of ‘In Spite Of Ourselves’ live for the first time. Sebastian it was…
Skaiwater is following the March release of Wonderful with a surprise second album of the year. The previously unannounced Femme Fatale, which a press release notes was “inspired by Young Thug,” includes one guest spot (Sophie Gray on “Sophia”) and is available to stream now.“If creation began with attraction (energy pulling energy), lust, seduction, and mystique are the same feminine attracting forces that tie back to the creation of everything,” notes the Nottingham rapper and producer in a rather inscrutable statement. “That’s why the album is called Femme Fatale.”Revisit our 2024 review of #Gigi.Femme Fatale01 Vampires, Zombies02 Hitunes03 Delilah04 Ella05…
Onstage in a red — though not raspberry — beret, a bearded John Travolta introduced the inaugural performance from punk all-stars Cretin Family for the Ramones 50th Anniversary Tribute by resurrecting the geriatric cemetery joke: people were literally dying to get in. There was no rim shot from Blink-182-Cretin drummer Travis Barker, but the raucous performance by the Cretins, rounded out by Rancid guitarist (and the event’s musical director) Tim Armstrong; Green Day singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong; and Ramones bassist CJ Ramone, could have raised the dead. In this legendary internment oasis in the middle of a gritty Hollywood neighborhood,…
Never had Will Forte found himself so caught between art and commerce. The former Saturday Night Live star had received a call in November 2023 inviting him to a screening of the new Looney Tunes movie he’d just made, Coyote vs. Acme. Test audiences had loved it, and the producers were excited to finally share it with the whole cast. The very next day, like an anvil falling from the sky, Forte and his collaborators were crushed by the news that Warner Bros, the film’s studio, had decided to shelve the movie for a tax write-off. The private screening still…
