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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

A24’s new limited debut Pillion saw terrific numbers as did Oscar-nominated Hamnet from Focus Features, which has been out since November, as independent distributors Bleecker Street and Vertical set milestones on an unusual theatrical weekend against the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics. Harry Lighton’s Pillion starring Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling opened to $241.8k

One of the biggest whodunnits of the year will no doubt be the upcoming horror movie Scream 7, which brings OG star Neve Campbell and OG screenwriter Kevin Williamson back into the fold in huge ways. The sequel’s first trailer showed off a slew of Ghostface action combined with new looks at Sydney Prescott’s current

East Bay stalwarts Green Day brought fiery punk rock energy to Super Bowl LX, performing a medley of songs from their 2004 classic, American Idiot. They stopped short of making an explicit political statement onstage, instead letting the songs speak for themselves. After a brief teaser of “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),” the trio

Gabriel Saloman Mindel, the guitarist and co-composer of beloved noise-drone duo Yellow Swans, is crowdfunding treatment for early Stage 4 lung cancer. Mindel, who has made solo music under the pseudonyms GMS and Sade Sade since Yellow Swans’ split in 2009, received the diagnosis after a health crisis last fall, his partner Aja Bond writes

SATURDAY AM: What can be as bad as a 2,000-mile snowstorm that shutters theaters? Why, Super Bowl weekend. And while it’s not the lowest weekend of the year (yet), it’s quite close with all movies doing under $60M versus the $55.1M till two weekends ago when 400 multiplexes turned off the lights due to snow

The 98th Academy Awards will be here before you know it, so I’ve been spending my free time catching up on all the Oscar-nominated films that I missed late last year. This admittedly ambitious yet fulfilling exercise recently brought me Hamnet, Chloe Zhao’s utterly heartbreaking exploration of grief and what can come from it. This

Brad Arnold, the lead singer of the hard-rock band 3 Doors Down, passed away on Saturday. He was 47 years old. In May 2025, Arnold explained in a video he had been diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer (clear cell renal cell carcinoma) which had spread to one of his lungs. The band canceled their

Mariah Carey took part in the opening ceremony at the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milan, Italy. She sang a medley of Domenico Modugno’s Italian standard “Nel Blu, Dipinto di Blu,” commonly known as “Volare,” and “Nothing Is Impossible,” from her own 2025 album Here for It All. Watch clips of her performance on YouTube

Warner Bros has moved up Practical Magic 2 to the post Labor Day weekend where they launch horror and genre pics, Sept. 11, from its previous Sept. 18 date. Meanwhile, DC Studios’ Clayface movie, about the Batman antagonist, moves outta Sept 11 to Oct. 23….major shift. In regards to Practical Magic 2, that’s a highly

I don’t know why, but Hollywood has been in a major funk when it comes to bringing us more great romantic comedies since the early 2000s, in my opinion. There have been a couple of bangers here and there (including some solid releases from the genre last year), but I’m always waiting for one to

Fred Smith, the original bassist of Blondie who then joined Television in place of Richard Hell, has died at the age of 77. Television member Jimmy Rip confirmed Smith’s passing on Friday in a statement to Instagram, saying that he died from an illness that he had fought “long and hard these last few years.”

Robyn has announced a run of arena shows behind her first album in eight years. The Sexistential Tour runs from June through November and spans North America, Europe, and Australia, including three hometown shows at Stockholm’s Avicii Arena. Joining Robyn at various dates are the likes of Erika de Casier, Smerz, 808 State, Saya Gray,

Paramount and Spyglass Media’s Scream 7 came on domestic tracking with a mid $30M opening in store when it arrives in theaters on Feb. 27. If those numbers hold, it could be the second highest opening in the 30-year-old franchise stateside after Scream VI‘s record $44.4M opening; that 2023 installment fueled by the Jenna Ortega

There’s nothing pedestrian about a red carpet premiere. We regularly see celebrities strut out on carpets in the naked dress trend or method dressing (like Margot Robbie is doing right now for Wuthering Heights). While I enjoy ohh-ing and aw-ing over celebrity fashion just as much as the next gal, I think the winner of

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine readily admitted in a new interview he didn’t know anything about Yungblud, but after hearing about the UK singer’s recent high-profile collaborations, the metal veteran advised the rising rocker to “take a break or find something else [musically].” Mustaine was asked by NME if he came across any of Yungblud’s work,