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Bikini Kill have announced a benefit show for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. It happens at the Capitol Theater in Olympia, Washington, on January 27. Portland rock band the Ghost Ease will join the bill, which also features an appearance from guest speaker Selma Al-Aswad. Find out more details here. In November, Kathleen Hanna and her bandmates signed an open letter of musicians calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. Their fellow signees included Brian Eno, Zack de la Rocha, Arooj Aftab, Kid C…

Sarah McLachlan has announced a stretch of 2024 tour dates in North America to mark the 30th anniversary of her third album, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. Feist and Allison Russell will join McLachlan along the way. Find all of the spring and summer dates below. After a fall 1993 release in McLachlan’s home country of Canada, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy was issued worldwide in early 1994. The LP, which McLachlan wrote while isolated in a Quebec cabin, helped the singer-songwriter break out internationa…

Olivia Rodrigo stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to start the week, continuing her Guts promotional circuit after her recent stint on Saturday Night Live. She played four songs solo at NPR’s Washington, D.C., headquarters: “Love Is Embarrassing,” “Vampire,” “Lacy,” and “Making the Bed.” The session premiered ahead of her performance of “Can’t Catch Me Now” from the new Hunger Games soundtrack on Colbert. Take a look at both performances below. At her December SNL…

Jenny Lewis has announced a fresh stretch of U.S. tour dates in support of her latest LP, Joy’all. The next leg of the Joy’all Ball Tour begins in California at the end of February, wrapping up at Nashville’s revered Ryman Auditorium in mid-March. Hayden Pedigo and Logan Ledger join Lewis along the way, see all of the dates below. After issuing Joy’all in June, Lewis took up with the Postal Service for a stint ahead of her first round of Joy’all Ball touring in November and December. The country…

Thundercat is reissuing his 2013 album, Apocalypse, to commemorate the record’s 10th anniversary. The updated edition comes with two previously unreleased songs, “Paris” and “Before I Loved Myself ‘I’ Pooped My Ankles (True).” It’s out March 1 via Brainfeeder. The California bassist last issued an LP of his own in 2020 with It Is What It Is, and, in the years since, he’s worked on new material with Vic Mensa, Kaytranada, Gorillaz, and others. In April, he joined Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker for th…

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 releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new projects from Bas, 박혜진 Park Hye Jin, Certified Trapper, Wishy, and Laura Karpman. 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. Whe…

Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul have shared a new Christmas-themed cut titled “Hoho,” a re-work of their Topical Dancer track “Haha.” In addition to more bells in the mix, Adigéry adjusts the song’s spoken refrain to suit Santa: “Guess you had to be good.” Check it out below. The duo shared a statement about the genesis of “Hoho”: Hahahallelujah, we made a Christmas song! From “HAHA” to “HOHO”…What started off as a joke by Ollie (from Asa Moto) at Deewee, became a reality a day later. We rewo…

From the 65th floor of an office tower in lower Manhattan, Rob Moose can see most of the city he’s called home for nearly 25 years. First arriving to study violin at the Manhattan School of Music, he’s since established himself as an in-demand and inventive arranger, developing a subtle but distinctive touch on landmark indie rock records and millennial pop blockbusters. His sensibility largely emerged from the connections he found and forged between the worlds of classical music and contemporar…

Faye Webster has announced several new tour dates in the United States, supporting her forthcoming LP, Underdressed at the Symphony. Along with a handful of shows in Florida and Alabama in March, she’ll return to the United States in June after a spring jaunt in Europe. Find all of Webster’s dates below. Webster announced her follow-up to 2021’s I Know I’m Funny Haha last week, and her childhood friend Lil Yachty joins her on the single “Lego Ring.” Between projects, Webster re-worked material f…

The man who Bob Dylan called “a kindred spirit” emphasized the importance of music throughout his careers in politics and public service