Evan Minsker

The winners of several country, American roots, and Americana awards have been announced at the 2024 Grammys. Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, Allison Russell, and Brandy Clark were among those honored for their work. Chris Stapleton won Best Country Solo Performance for the song “White Horse.” He was nominated alongside Brandy Clark (“Buried”), Dolly Parton (“The Last Thing on My Mind”), Luke Combs (“Fast Car”), and Tyler Childers (“In Your Love”). The winner of Best Country Song was also Chris S…

Victoria Monét has won Best R&B Album today at the 2024 Grammys. Jaguar II picked up the win over releases by by Babyface (Girls Night Out), Summer Walker (Clear 2: Soft Life EP), Emily King (Special Occasion), and Coco Jones (What I Didn’t Tell You (Deluxe)). The Best R&B Album win is Monét’s second of the day. Earlier, she and her collaborators won Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, for Jaguar II. Monét’s win puts her in a pantheon of artists who have previously won Best R&B Album, includin…

Meshell Ndegeocello is the inaugural winner of Best Alternative Jazz Album at the 2024 Grammys. The Omnichord Real Book was nominated alongside Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily’s Love in Exile, plus albums by Cory Henry (Live at the Piano) and Louis Cole (Quality Over Opinion), as well as SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree, by SuperBlue, Charlie Hunter, and Kurt Elling. Best Alternative Jazz Album marks Ndegeocello’s second Grammy win. In 2021, Ndegeocello’s Robert Glasper and H.E.R. co…

This year, before kickoff and Usher’s halftime show, Super Bowl LVIII will be kicked off with its traditional three performances. Reba McEntire will deliver the national anthem; Post Malone will sing “America the Beautiful”; and Andra Day will perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Last year, the pre-game ceremony featured Babyface’s performance of “America the Beautiful,” Chris Stapleton playing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and Abbott Elementary star Sheryl Lee Ralph doing “Lift Every Voice and Si…

Andra Day has announced her third album, Cassandra. The Grammy and Golden Globe winner’s latest full-length is out at a yet unannounced date this spring via Warner. Listen to the lead single, “Where Do We Go,” below. Cassandra is the second proper album from Day following 2015’s Cheers From the Fall, which featured the ubiquitous single “Rise Up.” In 2021, she portrayed Billie Holliday in the film The United States vs. Billie Holliday. Her performance in the film netted her the Golden Globe for…

Uranium Club, the virtuoso punk weirdos also called the Minneapolis Uranium Club Band, are making their long-awaited return with a new album. Infants Under the Bulb is out March 1 via Static Shock and Anti Fade; Iron Lung is distributing in the United States. Listen to the album’s opener, “Small Grey Man,” below. The last Uranium Club full-length was 2019’s The Cosmo Cleaners. As is their custom at this point, the band members created the album artwork themselves, and the process seems pretty in…

Alex G is stepping up to the majors; today, RCA Records announced that it has signed the singer-songwriter. He now shares a label with SZA, Foo Fighters, the Strokes, Steve Lacy, Doja Cat, H.E.R., Flo Milli, Tyler Childers, Justin Timberlake, and others. While there’s no word yet on the follow-up to his 2022 Domino Records release God Save the Animals, today. he’s announced a 2024 tour. It includes Governors Ball and his dates with Foo Fighters. Check those out below. Alex G: 06-07 New York, NY…

Daniel Boeckner of Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits, and Operators has announced a new solo project. Just call him Boeckner now, but remember to add the exclamation point when you’re referring to his new album, Boeckner! The eight-song release is out March 15 via Sub Pop. Check out the lead single, “Lose,” below. Boeckner is joined on Boeckner! by drummer Matt Chamberlain, guitarist Brad Laner of Medicine (who also contributed vocal arrangements), and Kiwi Jr.’s Jeremy Gaudet. “This recor…

Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker has announced her new solo album: Bright Future is coming March 22 via 4AD. The follow-up to 2020’s Songs and Instrumentals features the previously shared track “Ruined,” and, today, she’s shared the new song “Sadness as a Gift.” Check it out, along with Lenker’s tour dates, below. The new album was co-produced with Philip Weinrobe and features Nick Hakim, Mat Davidson, and Josefin Runsteen at the analog studio Double Infinity. “It felt like everyone’s nervous systems…

As of 2024, Ween have been a band for 40 years. (They briefly disbanded in 2012, but were already back together by 2016.) To mark the occasion, they’ve announced a series of shows. As they put it: “Ween will be painting the town brown all year long.” The dates across the American South begin with a run of shows in April; they’ll get back on the road for a run of West Coast shows in August. Find Ween’s itinerary below. Ween: 02-14 Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren 02-15 Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren 02-1…

In 2022, the years-long legal untangling of Prince’s estate was resolved in court, resulting in a 50-50 split of the business. Some of Prince’s legal heirs sold their shares to Primary Wave Music, while others retained their stakes and partnered with advisors L. Londell McMillan and Charles Spicer to form the estate management holding company Prince Legacy LLC. On Monday, McMillan and Spicer filed a lawsuit in Delaware court that illustrates a new alleged upheaval between Prince’s family and the…

Ariana Grande is back: Tonight, she’s released her new song “Yes, And?,” which marks her first solo single since 2020. The song was written and produced by Grande, Max Martin, and Ilya Salmanzadeh. Grande recently revealed in an Instagram story that, while “Yes, And?” isn’t the name of her forthcoming album, the single’s artwork will serve as one of her forthcoming album’s cover variants. Check out the new song below. Grande recorded “Yes, And?” in New York. She wrote and produced the single wit…

Shabazz Palaces have announced Exotic Birds of Prey, a new seven-song mini album that arrives just months after the release of their 2023 full-length Robed in Rareness. It’s out March 29 via Sub Pop. Check out the lead single “Angela,” a collaboration with Stas Thee Boss and Irene Barber, below. In addition to Stas and Barber, the new project features contributions from Japreme Magnetic, OC Notes, Cobra Coil, Purple Tape Nate, and Lavarr the Starr. The album was produced by Shabazz Palaces. Exot…

Argentine producer Bizarrap is back with the latest in his “Bzrp Music Sessions” series. Puerto Rican rapper Young Miko is his latest collaborator. Listen to “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 58” below. Last year, Bizarrap’s series welcomed guests including Peso Pluma, Rauw Alejandro, and Shakira. Young Miko’s 2023 included an appearance on Tainy’s Data, the Jowell & Randy team-up “ID,” and the Bad Gyal and Tokischa collaboration “Chulo pt.2.” Read more about Young Miko in Pitchfork’s features “The Bes…

Faye Webster has announced her new album: Underdressed at the Symphony is out March 1 via Secretly Canadian. Its lead single is called “Lego Ring,” and it’s a collaboration with Lil Yachty. The music video shows Webster and Yachty playing a video game called Singsongrama, which was created by Kyle Ng of Brain Dead Studios. Watch the video below, and play the game here. In a 2017 W profile, Webster said that she and Lil Yachty were close friends in middle school as Atlanta teenagers. They grew ap…

Ride have announced their new album: Interplay is out March 29 (via Wichita/PIAS). It’s the shoegaze band’s latest album since its reunion, after 2017’s Weather Diaries and 2019’s This Is Not a Safe Place. Check out Ride’s new song, “Peace Sign,” below. “This album has taken a long time to make, and has seen the band go through a lot of ups and downs; maybe the most of any Ride album,” Ride singer Andy Bell said in a statement. “But it has seen us come through the process as a band in a good pla…

Merge Records is turning 35 this year. In addition to a mostly unannounced summer festival (only the dates July 24-27 have been publicly confirmed), a new Superchunk single is coming. “Everybody Dies” is out now, with its B-side “As in a Blender” (a cover of the Alastair Galbraith song) and physical release following on January 26. Hear “Everybody Dies” below. The new single was inspired by the “avalanche of loss” stemming from the past few years; Mac McCaughan cited David Bowie, Prince, Pharoah…

G Herbo was sentenced today in Massachusetts federal court after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and making a false statement to a federal official. The Chicago rapper, who faced up to 20 years in prison, is sentenced to three years’ probation and was ordered to pay $139,878 in restitution and a $5,500 fine. Pitchfork has reached out to Herbo’s attorney for comment. In 2020, G Herbo and five others were charged in a federal grand jury indictment accusing them of involvement in…

MGMT have shared their latest single from their upcoming album Loss of Life. “Nothing to Declare” stars Inga Petry, who is arguably best known for raising awareness for the disabled community on TikTok. In the video, Petry—who was born with upper limb aplasia—travels to Paris and ultimately stands face-to-face with the Venus de Milo. Watch the Joey Frank–directed video below. Petry discussed the video in a statement: When I was first approached by Joey to do this project, it was the parallelism…

Bruce Hornsby and the chamber ensemble yMusic have announced a new album from their collaborative project BrhyM. The album, Deep Sea Vents, is out March 1 (via Zappo Productions/Thirty Tigers). Hornsby and yMusic’s Rob Moose produced the album, recording it in Williamsburg, Virginia, and New York. Check out lead single “Deep Blue,” and the collective’s forthcoming tour dates, below. Moose, a violinist, is in yMusic with horn player CJ Camerieri, violist Nadia Sirota, cellist Gabriel Cabezas, cla…