The Outside Lands festival returns to Golden Gate Park from August 9 to 11. Headlining the San Francisco event are Tyler, the Creator, the Killers, and Sturgill Simpson. The festival will also feature the Postal Service, Grace Jones, Kaytranada, Jungle, Chris Lake, Gryffin, Snoh Aalegra, Schoolboy Q, Victoria Monét, Reneé Rapp, Slowdive, Chappell Roan, Channel Tres, the Lemon Twigs, Shaboozey, Corinne Bailey Rae, Real Estate, Romy, Amen Dunes, and many others. Plus, Post Malone will do a country set. Find the festival’s poster below.

Megan Thee Stallion is facing a harassment lawsuit from a man who says he used to work as a cameraman for the Houston rapper. According to the complaint, filed in a California court and viewed by Pitchfork, Megan Thee Stallion’s “conduct created a hostile work environment for Plaintiff [Emilio Garcia], making the conditions of his employment intolerable in direct contravention of various statutes and state law decisions.”

St. Vincent is back with one more song from All Born Screaming before the album officially comes out this Friday, April 26. Listen to “Big Time Nothing” below. “Big Time Nothing” follows the previous All Born Screaming singles “Broken Man” and “Flea,” the latter featuring Dave Grohl on drums and Justin Meldal-Johnsen on bass. Annie Clark’s follow-up to Daddy’s Home also boasts contributions from Cate Le Bon, Josh Freese, Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa, Rachel Eckroth, Mark Guiliana, and David Ralicke.

Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard and Michael Kiwanuka will embark on a joint tour of North America this autumn. The American and British singer-songwriters will bring Yasmin Williams along for the trek, which kicks off in Philadelphia in late September. Check out the dates below. Coincidentally, on Friday, April 19, Howard also released her song “Fire Inside” from the animated Netflix film Thelma the Unicorn. Scroll down to check that out, too.

Two specific moments turned me into a head of L.A. rap group Cuzzosx5. First it was their raunchy breakout single “Goochie Mayne”—in the tradition of YN Jay and Louie Ray’s “Coochie”—and the way they skewer the dudes in their DMs: “You niggas hoes/How the fuck you get a cut and now you outside with the bros?” Then it was the opening seconds of their video for “Young Wings,” where two members, Teawhyy and Milly Mo (the other three are BB, Jasscole, and Big I-N-D-O), argue about whether DayDay or Langston is the hottest guy in the Rangers, one of the central jerkin’ crews of the late 2000s and early 2010s. Not only is it a pretty funny scene, it stamps their music as L.A. shit through and through.

One Hand Clapping, the sought-after live album that Paul McCartney & Wings recorded in 1974, has been newly mixed for its first official release. It arrives June 14, on vinyl and CD, as well as digitally. The record will also stream in Dolby Atmos, mixed by Giles Martin and Steve Orchard.

Mitski has unveiled a new music video for her The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We song “Star.” The black-and-white clip is directed by frequent collaborator Maegan Houang, who’s behind Puberty 2’s “Happy” and Laurel Hell’s “The Only Heartbreaker” and “Stay Soft.” Watch the video, in which Mitski paddles a boat across a foggy lake at night, below.

In January, Open Mike Eagle and frequent collaborators Video Dave and Still Rift announced their new group Previous Industries. At the time, they shared the tracks “Showbiz” and “Braids,” and they’ve now announced their debut album: Service Merchandise comes out June 28 via Merge. Check out the trio’s new single, “Pliers,” and its animated music video, a shot-for-shot remake of Jaws’ “Show me the way to go home” scene directed by Video Dave, below.

Zsela has announced her debut album, along with a U.S. tour. Big for You arrives June 14 via Mexican Summer. The New York singer-songwriter’s LP features the new single “Lily of the Nile,” which comes accompanied by a video directed by Chester Raj Anand. Check out the video and tour dates below.

Brooklyn-via-Florida rapper Niontay, Hartford cloud-rap star RealYungPhil, and New York rap crew Surf Gang have joined forces for a new single called “Halftones.” It’s produced by Harrison and Flea Diamonds. They’re also releasing the track’s video, in which Niontay and RealYungPhil take turns rapping around the streets of New York. Check it out below.

A new posthumous album of previously unreleased material by Johnny Cash has been announced: Songwriter is due June 28 (via Mercury Nashville/UMe). Centered around original demos that Cash recorded in 1993 between contracts, the album strips down those recordings to just the country legend’s vocals and acoustic guitar, and then invites the musicians with whom he played—guitarist Marty Stuart, late bassist Dave Roe, and drummer Pete Abbott, among others—to flesh out the music. Listen to the lead single, “Well Alright,” below.

AIDS-awareness nonprofit Red Hot has announced another new tribute album honoring Sun Ra. Outer Spaceways Incorporated - Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra, out June 21, is the fourth volume in the label’s Red Hot & Ra series. Listen to two songs from it, a reimagining of Sun Ra’s “Daddy’s Gonna Tell You No Lie,” featuring Laraaji, and “Outer Spaceways Incorporated,” with vocals by Georgia Anne Muldrow, below.

Whatever ineffable force makes music feel both contained and alive, Still House Plants have it. Their beautifully fractured sound seems made of nerve endings, like the band’s process is on view and we’re hearing the very moment of a Still House Plants song taking shape. The London trio of vocalist Jess Hickie-Kallenbach, guitarist Finlay Clark, and drummer David Kennedy, who met about a decade ago at the Glasgow School of Art, once said they practice only the starts and endings of their songs, which underscores how each one works: as a vessel for abandon.

When a veteran artist turns to a young-gun producer for a shot of contemporary savvy, it usually signals a desire to revamp their sound or embrace a new era. Sometimes it works: Jack White brought some bluesy grit to Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose; St. Vincent nudged Sleater-Kinney in a sleeker, icier direction. And sometimes it doesn’t; remember when Danger Mouse tried to steer RHCP into an album of lush space-funk? But generally, at least, a spirit of reinvention animates the proceedings.

This past Valentine’s Day, Elyanna opened the Chicago date of her first North American tour by performing the title track of her debut album, Woledto. Lured onstage by the mallet drumming of a tabla baladi and the spellbinding melody of an electroacoustic oud, the Palestinian Chilean singer-songwriter took the mic draped in angelic white. “And I ask myself after my absence,” she trilled in Arabic. “Heartbrokenly: Why did I go away/When your love was above the stars?”

Ken Carson has announced the 2024 Chaos World Tour, an extensive run of dates that will bring the Atlanta rapper across North America and Europe. He’s hitting the road in support of his new album, A Great Chaos, which came out last October. Find the complete list of tour dates below.

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has announced the dates for its 2025 edition. The festival will return to the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, for the weekends of April 11-13 and April 18-20. Advance ticket sales will begin next Friday, May 3. This year’s Coachella, which took...

Kid Cudi was a last-minute addition to the second weekend of the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, performing a set at the Sahara tent yesterday (April 21). Unfortunately, he had to cut his set short after he leapt from the stage and broke his foot. Cudi addressed the incident on X later in the night: “Hey guys, so I broke my foot today at the show. 🤦🏾‍♂️ just leavin the hospital. Never broken a bone before so this is all a bit crazy. I wanna thank u all for ur concerns and well wishes!! I love yall man. I heard yall still ragin when I was offstage. Made me smile big 🥹.”

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.

Thom Yorke has shared two new songs from his score for Daniele Luchetti’s drama Confidenza. The Radiohead and Smile frontman will release the score digitally through XL on April 26, with vinyl and CD coming on July 12. Watch the “Knife Edge” video, made with excerpts from the film, and a visualizer for “Prize Giving” below.