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Headie One and Fred again.. have shared a new song that’s a collaboration with Jamie xx. Listen to “Smoke” from the duo’s new mixtape GANG below.

Drake has released a brand new song called “Toosie Slide.” The single was teased with a clip of Atlanta dancer Toosie performing the song’s instructed moves (“It go right foot up, left foot slide/Left foot up, right foot slide”). Find the Toosie clip and the “Toosie Slide” below.

The 1975 have shared “Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America,” the sixth offering from Notes on a Conditional Form. The new song is a duet between Matty Healy and Phoebe Bridgers. Hear it below.

Los Angeles-based pianist, producer, composer, and Solange collaborator John Carroll Kirby has surprise-released a new album. Kirby’s eight-track Conflict LP is out now via Stones Throw. Hear it below.

Jenny Hval has released a new song. Check out “Bonus Material” below. The track, which follows last year’s The Practice of Love LP, accompanies a batch of rescheduled tour dates (more will follow, according to a press release). Find those below.

Mavis Staples has shared a new single “All in It Together.” It’s produced by her frequent collaborator Jeff Tweedy, who also plays guitar and sings backing vocals on the track. Proceeds from the song will go toward My Block, My Hood, My City—a Chicago organization helping senior citizens get essentials that they may need to fight COVID-19. Hear “All in It Together” below.

Washington D.C. reggae group the Archives have announced their new LP Carry Me Home. A Reggae Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, a reggae tribute to the two artists on what would have been Gil Scott-Heron’s 71s birthday. The album was produced by the Archives’ Darryl “Trane” Burke and Thievery Corporation’s Eric Hilton, and is due out May 27 via Hilton’s Montserrat House label. Check out the first single “A Toast to the People” featuring Raheem DeVaughn below.

Waxahatchee recently performed a cover of Caroline Polachek’s Pang track “So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings.” Katie Crutchfield played an acoustic rendition of the song during a set at SiriusXM’s Los Angeles Studios. Check it out below.

Australian pop artist Troye Sivan is back with a new single, “Take Yourself Home.” Sivan co-wrote the song with Leland, Tayla Parx, Oscar Görres, who also produced the track. (Görres previously produced Sivan’s “My My My!” from 2018’s Bloom.) Watch the lyric video for “Take Yourself Home” below.

The public feud between Flavor Flav and Chuck D reached a boiling point in early March when Public Enemy announced that Flav was fired from the group. As it turns out, the whole dust-up appears to have been an elaborate April Fools ruse to help promote a new album from Chuck’s project Enemy Radio. Loud Is Not Enough is out now (listen below), and it features a single with both Chuck and Flav called “Food as a Machine Gun.”

Ty Segall has shared Segall Smeagol, an EP featuring covers of six songs from the classic Harry Nilsson album Nilsson Schmilsson. “I wanted to cover Nilsson Schmilsson for years, so I used the opportunity of being at home to cover my favorite cuts from the record,” Segall said. The EP is available as a free download on Bandcamp. Check it out below.

Earl Sweatshirt has hopped on a new remix of “Ion Rap Beef,” a 2018 song from Los Angeles rappers Drakeo the Ruler and 03 Greedo. The original was also recently included on the Free Drakeo compilation. Hear “Ion Rap Beef (Remix)” below.

Psychic Ills frontman Tres Warren died this month at the age of 41. Today (March 31), the band’s longtime label Sacred Bones has released a Psychic Ills 7" featuring a cover of the Beach Boys’ “Never Learn Not to Love” and its demo version “Cease to Exist,” written by Charles Manson. Listen below.

Tame Impala have released a full-length reimagining of their latest album The Slow Rush. The hour-long clip includes every track on the new record, but the mix sounds muddied—like you’re hearing it from the bathroom at a party (similar to a remix trend that cropped up a couple of years ago). Check it out below.

Yves Tumor has shared a new single from the artist’s upcoming album Heaven to a Tortured Mind. Listen to “Romanticist/Dream Palette” below.

Inventions—the duo of Matthew Robert Cooper (aka Eluvium) and Explosions in the Sky’s Mark T. Smith—have announced their next album. Continuous Portrait arrives digitally May 29 via Temporary Residence Ltd. Inventions have also shared the LP’s “Outlook for the Future.” Hear the song below and scroll down to find the tracklist and a preview of the limited bronze vinyl edition of the album. The CD and also the bronze vinyl are out July 10.

serpentwithfeet has shared “A Comma,” a new song for Adult Swim’s ongoing Singles series. Check it out below. “A Comma” is set to appear on a new EP called Apparition, due out in late April. It was produced by Wynne Bennett, who has worked with Janelle Monáe, Twin Shadow, and more.

The Weeknd has added three more new songs to the deluxe edition of After Hours. Hear “Nothing Compares,” “Missed You,” and “Final Lullaby” below.

Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and co-host Jake Longstreth have started running weekly episodes of their Beats 1 show Time Crisis via FaceTime. During this week’s episode, regular TC guest Cazzie David called in to the show.

Nils Frahm has released an eight-track album called Empty for Piano Day 2020. Listen to it below via Erased Tapes.

Nashville guitarist and composer William Tyler has shared a brand new “cosmic pastoral” single. It’s called “Time Indefinite” and you can give it a listen below.

Hiss Golden Messenger have released a new live album that they recorded at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, North Carolina last year. And, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the band is donating all proceeds from the album to North Carolina’s Durham Public Schools Foundation. Listen to Forward, Children below.

Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Matt Sweeney have shared a previously unreleased their from the sessions for 2005 collaboration Superwolf. Proceeds from the song, “You’ll Get Eaten, Too,” will go to the staffs of Drag City and New York’s Superiority Burger. Hear the rarity below.

New York’s Onyx Collective have teamed up with Ian Isiah for a new cover of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s 1934 classic “Blue Moon.” Onyx Collective have also revealed the release date and tracklist for their upcoming album Manhattan Special: Onyx Collective Plays Rodgers & Hart / Rodgers & Hammerstein: It’s out April 24 via TMWRK.

I Break Horses, the pop project led by Maria Lendén, has a new album due later this spring. It’s called Warnings, and it’s her first record in six years, following 2014’s Chiaroscuro. Listen to “Neon Lights” from the album, which arrives May 8 via Bella Union/PIAS, below.

NAV is back with a new song that features both Travis Scott and Gunna. It’s called “TURKS.” Have a listen below.

Canadian singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez has released her debut LP Before Love Came to Kill Us. It features a guest appearance from Eminem, with whom she collaborated on the Kamizake track “Good Guy.” Check it out below and find physical editions of Before Love Came to Kill Us at Rough Trade. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)

A little earlier than initially planned, Dua Lipa has released her sophomore album Future Nostalgia. The record, which follows 2017’s Dua Lipa, was led by “Don’t Start Now,” “Future Nostalgia,” and “Physical,” as well as “Don’t Break My Heart,” which got a new music video earlier this week. Watch below. Plus, listen to all of Future Nostalgia and find physical editions of the album at Rough Trade. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)

Rihanna features on PARTYNEXTDOOR’s new track “BELIEVE IT.” It’s on his new album PARTYMOBILE, which is out now. Check it out below. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)

Craig Finn, frontman for the Hold Steady, has announced a new album called All These Perfect Crosses. He’s also shared its title track. The LP was recorded during Finn’s sessions from his most recent solo album, last year’s I Need a New War. The double album arrives June 20 (via Partisan) for the recently rescheduled Record Store Day. Listen to “All These Perfect Crosses” below, and scroll down to find Finn’s Instagram post about the project.