Jack Antonoff lashes out at AI music creators as Bleachers prepare new album and 2026 tour

Jack Antonoff has taken aim at AI music creators in unusually blunt terms, calling them “godless whores” in an Instagram post published on Wednesday, May 13.

The Bleachers frontman shared what he described as a journal entry, framing the act of writing music as something closer to a ritual than a workflow. “The idea of optimising what we do is a complete miss of the entire point of what compels us in the first place,” he wrote. Antonoff added that neither he nor “the band and everyone I know, frankly” had ever wanted the process to become “quicker or easier,” arguing that the appeal has always been in “the randomness and magic it takes.” For Antonoff, taking the process out of the work leaves “nothingness.”

He then turned directly toward AI users, telling them to “by all means drive right off that cliff.” Antonoff wrote that “we’re genuinely happy to see you go,” before suggesting that future generations would still be occupied with “the ancient ritual of writing, recording and performing as it comes to us from God.”

His post landed with the sort of theatrical hostility Antonoff has sometimes reserved for tech-industry overreach and the flattening logic that follows it. He closed by contrasting that world with what he sees as the harder, more human work of making records in public view: “bad actors” revealing themselves through “slop,” while “the struggling great” are left stretched thin trying to make a living. The final line was the bluntest of all: “Godless whores”.

His comments arrive as Bleachers get ready to release their new album, Everyone For 10 Minutes, on May 22 via Dirty Hit. The band has already shared four tracks from it, including “You And Forever,” “Dirty Wedding Dress,” “The Van” and “I’m Not Joking.” Fans can pre-order and pre-save the record here.

Bleachers will also head out on their biggest Europe and UK headline tour this November, beginning in Milan on November 5. The run continues through Munich, Berlin, Oslo, Stockholm, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris before the band moves on to Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham, Dublin and Manchester.

The tour ends at London’s Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith on December 3. Tickets are available here, and £1/€1 from each ticket sold will go to The Ally Coalition in support of LGBTQ+ youth.

Bleachers’ European and UK tour dates for 2026

NOVEMBER
05 – Alcatraz, Milan, Italy
07 – Tonhalle, Munich, Germany
09 – Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany
10 – Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany
12 – Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
13 – Annexet, Stockholm, Sweden
15 – Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany
17 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
20 – Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium
21 – Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
24 – O2 Academy, Bristol, UK
25 – O2 Academy, Glasgow, UK
26 – O2 Academy, Leeds, UK
28 – O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK
30 – 3Olympia, Dublin, Ireland

DECEMBER
02 – O2 Apollo, Manchester, UK
03 – Eventim Apollo, London, UK

Elsewhere, Antonoff recently responded to Ticketmaster’s claim that it had “caught scalpers” buying Harry Styles tickets, asking: “You caught you?”