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Liza Anne’s Utopian is a riotously fun assertion of self-worth. One of the album’s most vibrant tracks, “Treat Me,” pairs feminist lyrics with constantly shifting instrumentation, from tactile wood blocks and shakers to dreamy electric guitar and synths. Born Elizabeth Anne Odachowski, the nonbinary singer-songwriter spends much of the song in a didactic mode, alluding to the dangers faced by women and queer people in public spaces: “If you feel like I’m talking to you, then listen/Don’t treat me like that.”

Indeed, many of the songs on Utopian serve as teachable moments for Odachowski, who offers a series of personal and political lessons throughout, some more revelatory than others. On the album’s title track, the artist proposes remaining friends with an ex, singing, “We don’t have to shine a bad light/Just because it’s changing.” Odachowski’s optimism matches the track’s bright,...

Torres has announced her new album, What an enormous room, out January 26th, 2024 via Merge Records. The artist born Mackenzie Scott has also mapped out a 2024 tour of North America, the UK, and Europe in addition to sharing the lead single, “Collect.”

What an enormous room was recorded at Stadium Heights Sound in Durham, North Carolina during the fall of 2022. Sarah Jaffe co-produced the album with Scott, who played almost every instrument possible, including guitar, bass, synths, organ, piano, and programmed drums. Tj Allen — who mixed the project overseas in Bristol — and Jaffe also played instruments on the album. Pre-orders are ongoing, and you can see the artwork and full tracklist below.

The supporting world tour kicks off on January 17th in Cleveland, after which it will stop in Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta, Brooklyn, Washington, DC, and more. Then, Torres will head across the pond for dates across the UK and...

Pussy Riot are taking Maria Alyokhina’s “Riot Days” tour to North America this fall.

Based on Alyokhina’s 2017 memoir of the same name, the “Riot Days” tour combines live music, theatre, and video as the Pussy Riot member recounts her experiences protesting with the Russian punk collective — and facing imprisonment for the group’s guerrilla tactics. The activist has taken the show across the globe in recent years and won the Woody Guthrie prize in the States for its anti-fascist politics.

Beginning November 1st in Montreal, the fall 2023 trek takes Pussy Riot — in this iteration, featuring Alyokhina, Diana Burkot, Olga Broisova, and Alina Petrova — to Toronto, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Austin, Nashville, DC, and more before wrapping up December 8th in Brooklyn. Liza Anne, Sloppy Jane, Death Valley Girls, Pinkshift, and Thick provide support on select dates.

Checkout the complete tour itinerary for the “Riot Days” Fall 2023 North American tour below.

Pussy Riot is plotting their return with a U.S. tour. On Tuesday, the Russian feminist protest group announced their “Riot Days” tour.

The Riot Days collective — currently comprising Maria “Masha” Alyokhina, Diana Burkot, Olga Broisova, and Alina Petrova — will start their tour in Montreal on Nov. 1, before making their way to cities such as Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles, and Dallas, before wrapping their tour in Brooklyn, New York on Dec. 8.

The performance tour will be a combination of live music, theater, and video based on Alyokhina’s book,...

For the fifth anniversary of her acclaimed sophomore LP Historian, Lucy Dacus has released a new video for the album’s cathartic opener, “Night Shift.” The clip comes ahead of a special red vinyl reissue of Historian, which will be out May 26th via Matador.

Starring Dacus and Yellowjackets star Jasmin Savoy Brown, the video was directed by Jane Schoenbrun (We’re All Going to The World’s Fair) and was filmed with a number of Dacus’ friends, including Liza Anne and E.R. Fightmaster. With symbolic references to The Wizard of Oz, it captures the uplifting spirit of strength and self-acceptance for which the tune has become so loved.

When the video reaches the song’s booming climax and Dacus’ croon repeats the refrain, “In five years I hope the songs feel like covers/ Dedicated to new lovers” over visuals of Dacus and Brown finding each other in the crowd, it’s...

Tuesday saw the launch of the trailer for “Aftersun,” the debut feature film from Scottish director Charlotte Wells that played at Cannes’s International Critics’s Week sidebar and the Telluride Film Festival earlier this year to great acclaim. A24 is releasing the movie on October 21.

Deploying the intermittent use of ’90s hazy camcorder video, the movie recalls an 11-year-old’s melancholy summer vacation to a Turkish resort. Paul Mescal, best known for the series “Normal People,” and who appeared in another “British Islander-on-holiday” film “The Lost Daughter” just last year, is the endearing-but-also-embarrassing dad. The young Frankie Corio is making her debut here, following a search through over 800 applicants for the role. The young girl as an adult swimming through her memories is played by Celia Rowlson-Hall.

“Aftersun” was co-produced by director Barry Jenkins, and Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak, who worked with Jenkins on Oscar-winner “Moonlight,” “The Underground Railroad,...