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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…

“Simple Trick” is the new hypnotic single from Alixia Mistralone of the most interesting voices of the new Italian Neo-Soul and R&B scene, born in Forlì in 2001 but currently residing in Bologna. Member since 2021 of the legendary Superpopin the roster of the historic Emilian label IRMA RecordsAlixia Mistral's style is characterized by an elegant approach, an intense voice and a very fresh sound that expertly blends jazz, soul, hip hop rhythms and funky sounds, to the point of touching on Afrobeat and fusion contaminations. Among the artist's main influences are sacred monsters such as Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu,…

Drake’s Iceman landing this week, and it’s far from the first major record in music history to generate hype and excitement through an unorthodox marketing gambit Late last month, an enormous block of ice — roughly 25 feet high with each block weighing 300 pounds — appeared in a Toronto parking lot. “Danger Do Not Touch,” read a nearby sign. “This ice structure may break or collapse without warning, and falling ice or sharp fragments may cause serious injury or death. Do not touch or interact with the structure. Any contact with the structure is at your own risk.” Most…

As we inch closer to the final air date of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the host recruited his predecessor, David Letterman, for a very important task: to throw CBS property off the roof. Standing on top of the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, Letterman told Colbert, “I thought maybe tonight’s occasion would be a little sad, being the end of your run here, but this brings true joy to my heart. We are up here for the wanton destruction of CBS property!” That property included couches, Colbert’s office chair, several watermelons, and even a three-tiered congratulatory…