Long-dormant D.C. post-hardcore outfit Fugazi will be making their extensive vault of live recordings much more accessible, bringing the archive to streaming at long last.

After 14 years spent as a digital archive on the Dischord Records website, Fugazi will begin to upload their live recordings onto their Bandcamp page. Launching on Friday (May 2) as part of Bandcamp Friday, the first two offerings will bookend the band’s career, including their debut show at D.C.’s Wilson Center on September 3, 1987, and their “to-date final performance” in London on November 2, 2002.

Further shows will be uploaded on a monthly basis, while the band’s online archives will also remain accessible.

Fugazi first formed in 1986, comprising noted members of the D.C. hardcore and punk scene, including Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Guy Picciotto of Rites of Spring. Between 1990 and 2001, the group released six studio albums, largely avoiding commercial success along the way. While the band would chart modestly in the U.K., their U.S. peak occurred in 1995 when fourth album Red Medicine reached No. 126 on the Billboard 200. 

The group’s live performances were arguably one of the strongest aspects, however, with their DIY punk ethos resulting in the band performing over 1,000 shows across 16 years, with most gigs being priced as low as possible – often $5 – to make them accessible to everyone.

In 2004, the band’s extensive live archives were opened up and they began to issue their Fugazi Live Series recordings as physical CDs to fans. In 2011, the archives moved online, with more than 800 shows being made available for fans to purchase – complete with false starts, stage banter and audio dropouts.

“We liked this idea of, ‘Let’s just let it be everything,’” Picciotto told the New York Times in 2011. “There doesn’t have to be the idea that this is the great, golden document. It’s all there, and it’s not cleaned up. You get what you get.”

Fugazi have been inactive since embarking on an indefinite hiatus in 2003. Though members remain friends and regularly perform together both privately and in other bands, there is yet to be any official word of a potential reunion from the revered group.

Julien Baker and TORRES’ Send a Prayer My Way debuts at No. 5 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated May 3), and also takes a bow in the top 10 on both the Vinyl Albums and Indie Store Album Sales rankings. The set – the first collaborative effort from the duo – was released April 18 and sold about 6,500 copies in the United States in the week ending April 26, according to Luminate.

Previously, Baker has placed two solo titles on Top Album Sales. Baker is also a member of the group Boygenius, which has notched a trio of titles on the list.

Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.

In addition to the No. 5 bow on Top Album Sales for Send a Prayer My Way, it also starts at No. 4 on Vinyl Albums, No. 6 on Indie Store Album Sales, No. 16 on Americana/Folk Albums and No. 34 on Independent Albums.

Elsewhere on Top Album Sales, Doechii scores her biggest sales week yet, and first No. 1, as Alligator Bites Never Heal reenters atop the chart with 14,000 sold. Until April 18, the set was only available to purchase as a download and in two vinyl variants. On April 19, it garnered a wider availability on vinyl, including two new vinyl editions (both color variants) exclusively available via Target and Urban Oufitters, along with a widely available CD.

A trio of former No. 1s are next up on Top Album Sales: Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet rises 7-2 (8,500; down 14%), Kendrick Lamar’s GNX climbs 8-3 (8,000; down 16%) and Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM ascends 14-4 (nearly 7,000; down 11%). Many titles on the chart vault up the tally with big positional climbs, but with declines in sales, as the chart adjusts back to normal following a crowded Record Store Day-infused chart a week ago.

Childish Gambino’s 2024 album Bando Stone and the New World reenters Top Album Sales at No. 6 with nearly 6,500 copies sold following its first physical release, on vinyl. It’s the best sales week and first week in the top 10 for the title.

Chappell Roan’s chart-topping The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess jumps 19-7 (5,500; down 20%), Elton John and Brandi Carlile’s Who Believes In Angels? steps 10-8 (just over 4,500; down 50%), Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours races 36-9 (4,500; down 3%) and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft flies 38-10 (nearly 4,500; down 2%).

UPDATE (April 29): British composer Michael Nyman will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the film music concert “Minimalism in Motion: Glass, Nyman and Beyond.” The concert is the closing event of Film Fest Gent’s WSA Film Music Days 2025 and the 25th World Soundtrack Awards. Previously, it was announced that Philip Glass is also a Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.

Nyman, 81 is a three-time Golden Globe nominee for best original score – motion picture, for The Piano (1994), Gattaca (1998) and The End of the Affair (2000). Nyman’s soundtrack album to Jane Campion’s The Piano reached No 41 on the Billboard 200 in 1994 and went gold. Nyman has composed numerous operas, six concerti, five string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band. He is also a performing pianist.

Nyman will be honored on Oct. 16 at Music Centre De Bijloke in Ghent at the film music concert “Minimalism in Motion: Glass, Nyman and Beyond” – a celebration of the evolution of minimalist film music. During the concert, Brussels Philharmonic, conducted by maestro Dirk Brossé, will perform a selection of Nyman’s work.

PREVIOUSLY (April 5): American composer Philip Glass will be celebrated with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th annual World Soundtrack Awards on Oct. 15 and at a film music concert which will close the Film Fest Gent’s three-day Film Music Days 2025 on Oct. 16 in Ghent, Belgium.

Previous recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award include Marvin Hamlisch, John Barry, Giorgio Moroder and Elliot Goldenthal. (Full list of previous recipients below.)

The celebration will be held at the film music concert “Minimalism in Motion: Glass, Nyman and Beyond,” which will be held at Muziekcentrum De Bijloke in Ghent. During the concert, a selection of Glass’ work will be performed by the Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Dirk Brossé, who personally presented the award to Glass in New York.

While initially renowned for his work for opera and his symphonies, Glass has made an equally impressive contribution to film music. He has received three Oscar nominations for best original score for Kundun, The Hours and Notes on a Scandal.

Glass, 88, has received many other accolades, including a BAFTA Award, a Drama Desk Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for four Grammy Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. He has also received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1995, the National Medal of Arts in 2010, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2018, and a Trustees Award from the Recording Academy in 2020.

Glass’s work was recognized at the World Soundtrack Awards in 2007 with two nominations for his score for Notes on a Scandal.

This year’s WSA Film Music Days will be held from Oct. 14-16 during Film Fest Gent (Oct. 8-19). Tickets to the film music concert are now available on filmfestgent.be and worldsoundtrackawards.com.

Here’s a complete list of previous Lifetime Achievement Award recipients at the World Soundtrack Awards:

2024: Elliot Goldenthal

2023: Nicola Piovani and Laurence Rosenthal

2022: Bruno Coulais

2021: Eleni Karaindrou

2020: Gabriel Yared

2019: Krzysztof Penderecki and Frédéric Devreese

2018: Philippe Sarde

2017: David Shire

2016: Ryuichi Sakamoto

2015: Patrick Doyle and George Fenton

2014: Francis Lai

2013: Riz Ortolani

2012: Pino Donaggio

2011: Giorgio Moroder

2010: John Barry

2009: Marvin Hamlisch

2008: Angelo Badalamenti

2007: Mikis Theodorakis

2006: Peer Raben

2005: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

2004: Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman

2003: Maurice Jarre

2002: George Martin

2001: Elmer Bernstein

As Haim ready the release of their long-awaited fourth album, the trio of siblings have dropped an extensive run of North American and U.K. tour dates.

The Haim sisters officially confirmed the title of their upcoming album only a week ago during a show at The Bellwether theater in Los Angeles on April 23. The show itself was their first full show in nearly two years, with the trio revealing that I Quit will be their moniker of their fourth LP.

The follow-up to 2020’s Women in Music Pt. III, the upcoming record will officially arrive on June 20, and has so far been previewed by way of singles “Relationships,” “Everybody’s Trying to Figure Me Out,” and the newly-released “Down to Be Wrong.”

As the countdown to the record’s release slowly ticks away, Haim have now unveiled a run of tour dates to occupy them during the latter half of the year. 

Launching their upcoming tour plans with festival dates across the U.K, Europe, and Japan over the summer, the I Quit tour will see the trio embark upon a 23-date tour of the U.S. and Canada between September and October, before returning to the U.K. that same month with a six date run of shows.

In a recent interview in i.d. magazine, self-proclaimed “serial monogamist” Danielle said the new album is the first they’ve made without the involvement of her longtime boyfriend, producer Ariel Rechtshaid, and that she’s single for the first time since 2011. “Being single now, I’m just trying to embrace it, because I’m… I feel like I’m the age where I need to embrace it,” she said.

Alana said that the album is “the closest we’ve ever gotten to how we wanted to sound,” with Danielle diplomatically adding that working again with another longtime collaborator Rostam was “very quick, kinetic with him, which I really love as an artist… Maybe before, it wasn’t that way, it was kind of a more… longer, searching, labored situation.”

Haim – 2025 I Quit Tour Dates

Sept. 4 – TD Pavilion at the Mann, Philadelphia, PA
Sept. 5 – The Stage at Suffolk Downs, Boston, MA
Sept. 6 – Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, ON
Sept. 8 – Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
Sept. 9 – Westville Music Bowl, New Haven, CT
Sept. 10 – Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD
Sept. 12 – United Center, Chicago, IL
Sept. 13 – The Rave, Milwaukee, WI
Sept. 14 – The Armory, Minneapolis, MN
Sept. 17 – Edgefield, Portland, OR
Sept. 18 – WAMU Theater, Seattle, WA
Sept. 20 – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre, Vancouver, BC
Sept. 23 – Mesa Amphitheatre, Phoenix, AZ
Sept. 25 – The Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX
Sept. 26 – Moody Center, Austin, TX
Sept. 28 – White Oak Music Hall- Lawn, Houston, TX
Sept. 30 – The Pinnacle, Nashville, TN
Oct. 3 – Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, Denver, CO
Oct. 4 – The Great Saltair, Salt Lake City, UT
Oct. 7 – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
Oct. 9 – Kia Forum, Los Angeles, CA
Oct. 10 – The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, San Diego, CA
Oct. 11 – Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA
Oct. 24 – Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham, UK
Oct. 25 – Utilita Arena, Cardiff, UK
Oct. 26 – Brighton Centre, Brighton, UK
Oct. 28 – The O2, London, UK
Oct. 30 – AO Arena, Manchester, UK
Oct. 31 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow, UK