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Lifeguard

Lifeguard announce debut album, Ripped and Torn

Hear “It Will Get Worse”

HLLLYH

The Mae Shi reform as HLLLYH, announce new album URUBURU

Hear “Dead Clade”

Hayden Pedigo

Hayden Pedigo announces new album, I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away

Hear “Long Pond Lily”

Turnstile

Turnstile announce new album, Never Enough

Hear the album’s title track

Stereolab

Stereolab announce first new album in 15 years, Instant Holograms on Metal Film

Hear “Aerial Troubles”

Hotline TNT

Hotline TNT announce new album, Raspberry Moon

Hear “Julia’s War”

Clem Burke

R.I.P. Clem Burke of Blondie

Burke had been privately battling cancer

Mark Stewart

A posthumous album from Mark Stewart, The Fateful Symmetry, is out this summer

Hear “Memory of You”

Jenny Haniver

Portland duo Jenny Haniver offer a doomy take on “Unsolved Mysteries”

Portland post-punk/noise rock duo Jenny Haniver, comprising Eric Nyffeler (Bus Gas) and Randall Taylor (AMULETS), have just released…

Wu Lyf

Essential Tracks This Week: Wu Lyf, Tortoise, and more

Plus Divide and Dissolve, Levitation Room, and KAMM

Aesop Rock

Aesop Rock announces new album, Black Hole Superette

Hear “Checkers”

Liberation Weekend

Ekko Astral, Speedy Ortiz, Ted Leo to play at Liberation Weekend

Ekko Astral-curated event to support Gender Liberation Movement

dazy

Hear a new song from dazy, “Pay No Mind (To the Signs)”

Plus tour kicks off this month

Jenny Hval

Jenny Hval shares new song “The artist is absent,” announces North American dates

‘Iris Silver Mind’ out May 2

Cursive Bright Eyes Recluse I Don't Have to Love

Hear Bright Eyes and Cursive’s mash-up, “Recluse I Don’t Have to Love”

New single released as fundraiser for LGBTQ+ organizations

Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens announces Carrie & Lowell 10th anniversary reissue

Hear “Mystery of Love (Demo)”

Gentle Leader XIV

Gentle Leader XIV revel in post-punk gloom on “Woman Walking”

‘Joke in the Shadow’ out April 18

Alan Sparhawk

Essential Tracks This Week: Alan Sparhawk, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, and more

Plus Kara-Lis Coverdale, xWeaponx, and Planning for Burial

GEL

GEL break up, accuse former guitarist of “heinous acts”

The group have canceled their upcoming shows

Rival Consoles

Rival Consoles announces new album, Landscape From Memory

Hear “Catherine”