On Friday, label Captured Tracks announced it had dropped Canadian indie musician Alex Calder and would not release his album as scheduled following an allegation of sexual assault against him. This afternoon, Calder released a statement via Facebook addressing the allegation, which he says he does not dispute. "I have taken a step back from any creative pursuits to start putting my energy into...

In the video for "New York," the first single from St. Vincent's new album MASSEDUCTION, Annie Clark meets us styled like a member of the Addams Family, standing between a portrait of a mouth painted wide open and a bouquet of flaming spinach. The aesthetic is gleefully bizarre, storyboarded to be made into a thousand GIFs. But the song itself, in which Clark sings sincerely movingly about her adventures...

On Friday, SPIN and Pitchfork revealed that Matt Mondanile, the ex-Real Estate guitarist who also performs as a solo artist under the name Ducktails, was dismissed from the band amid allegations of “unacceptable treatment of women." Mondanile issued a blanket denial of wrongdoing to Pitchfork. When contacted by SPIN via email on Friday regarding the allegations and the statement we had received...