Category: Music

Skrillex and Utada Hikaru’s “Kingdom Hearts III” collaboration “Face My Fears” has finally been revealed. Game developer Square Enix released the cinematic opening for the upcoming game earlier today, featuring a one-minute snippet of the song. The official Twitter account for “Kingdom Hearts III” revealed that Skrillex initially wanted to remix Hikaru’s “Don’t Think Twice,” which will serve as the main theme for the game, but the two created an original song instead. Watch the trailer below and hear the extended snippet. The game is out on January 25. Skrillex…

The doc will get an Oscar-qualifying run, followed by an early 2019 release. Amazing Grace — the documentary featuring late superstar Aretha Franklin — has been picked up NEON in time for an awards play. NEON is planning an early 2019 theatrical release following the film’s Oscar-qualifying run in NY and LA.  Amazing Grace is a concert film that tracks Franklin’s return to gospel music in 1972 with the choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, when the legendary queen of soul was 29 years old and at the peak of her…

Bill Callahan joined Yo La Tengo onstage at New York’s Bowery Ballroom last night to perform a cover of Carly Simon’s “Touched by the Sun.” The song originally appeared on Simon’s 1994 LP Letters Never Sent. Watch a clip of that below. The concert marked night 5 of Yo La Tengo’s 8 Nights of Hanukkah, a series of live shows running from December 2-9 at Bowery Ballroom. A long-standing Yo La Tengo tradition, 8 Nights of Hanukkah was reinstated in 2017. Prior to that, the band took a five-year hiatus…

“I was shocked to see my name up there,” the Nashville-based country singer-songwriter Margo Price tells Pitchfork over the phone, hours after receiving a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist, her first Grammy nomination. The nod arrives in the wake of her 2017 sophomore album, All American Made, an explosive and exacting set about life in America, taking direct aim at the patriarchy and systems set up against women and working class people. Since signing to Jack White’s Third Man Records and releasing her debut Midwest Farmer’s Daughter in 2016,…

Long-running fighting game series “Mortal Kombat” is getting a new installment, “Mortal Kombat 11,” in April 2019. Today, a new trailer has been released for the game, featuring a new song from 21 Savage. It’s called “Immortal.” Check out the (seriously grisly) trailer below. 21 Savage recently teased new music, tweeting out, “Dam I forgot to drop my album my bad y’all.” Earlier today, he was nominated for two Grammy Awards—Record of the Year and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration—for his collab with Post Malone, “Rockstar.” 21 Savage’s last solo full-length Issa…

Eminem’s new video for “Good Guy” is here. Featuring Jessie Reyez, the intense new Kamizake visual sees Reyez rise from a grave before proceeding to fight Marshall Mathers, eventually throwing him—and herself—out of a window. She’s later seen crying beside his body. Find that below. The new clip follows his “Venom” video, which references the Tom Hardy-starring Marvel film by the same name. Eminem has also shared visuals for Kamikaze’s “Fall” and “Lucky You.” The rapper recently shared an 11-minute freestyle that referenced the 2017 Manchester concert bombing that happened…

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 albums and EPs from Gucci Mane, Yhung T.O, Guided by Voices, XXL, Ben LaMar Gay, and Say Sue Me. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. Gucci Mane: Evil Genius [Atlantic] Following prolific output in 2016 and ’17, Evil Genius is remarkably Gucci…

After sharing multiple teasers this year, Danger Mouse and the Shins’ James Mercer are back with the latest from their collaborative project Broken Bells. Their new single “Shelter” is out now. Listen below. Broken Bells’ last album was 2014’s After the Disco. In 2015, they shared the new song “It’s That Talk Again.” Since then, Mercer and the Shins released Heartworms and its follow-up companion piece The Worm’s Heart. This year, Danger Mouse produced the new Parquet Courts album Wide Awake!. https://pitchfork.com/news/the-shins-james-mercer-and-danger-mouse-announce-new-broken-bells-song