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Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory

Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory share new song, “Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)”

Plus 2025 tour dates

Mdou Moctar

Mdou Moctar shares new song, “Takoba (Injustice Version)”

‘Tears of Injustice’ is out Feb. 28

Waxahatchee Apple Sessions

Hear Waxahatchee cover Lucinda Williams on new Nashville Sessions EP

Plus 2025 show announced at Willie Nelson’s Luck Ranch

Deradoorian

Hear a new song from Deradoorian, “Digital Gravestone”

New album due out in spring 2025

The Cure Songs of a Live World

The Cure announce new live album, Songs of a Live World

Proceeds to be donated to War Child

MIKE

MIKE announces new album, Showbiz!

Hear “You’re the Only One Watching”

The Men

The Men announce new album, Buyer Beware

Hear “Pony”

Outbreak Fest 2025

Outbreak announces 2025 London, Manchester lineups: Slowdive, Sunny Day Real Estate, Turnstile

The Outbreak Festival returns to the UK in 2025, and it’s expanding beyond its Manchester…

Bambara

Bambara announce new album, Birthmarks

Hear new single “Pray to Me”

Father John Misty

Watch Father John Misty’s “Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose” video

Today, Father John Misty releases his new album Mahashmashana via Sub Pop. Our review of…

James Brandon Lewis

James Brandon Lewis Trio announces new album, Apple Cores

Hear “Five Spots to Caravan”

Horsegirl

Horsegirl announce new album, Phonetics On and On

Hear new song “2468”

Godspeed You! Black Emperor tour

Godspeed You! Black Emperor postpone remaining tour dates

The group plans to return to the cities they missed in 2025

FACS

FACS announce new album, Wish Defense

Hear the title track

Quincy Jones

R.I.P. legendary composer, musician and producer Quincy Jones

The prolific artist has died at 91

Tunde Adebimpe Magnetic

Essential Tracks This Week: Tunde Adebimpe, Bartees Strange, and more

Plus Full of Hell and Andrew Nolan, Cloakroom, and The Cure

The Body

The Body release new song, “Less Meaning”

‘The Crying Out of Things’ is out November 8

Pleasure Forever reissues

Pleasure Forever reissuing two early compilations, share haunting “An Exact Seance”

‘The Devil’s Pleasures’ and ‘Bodies Need Rest’ both being re-released

Flying Lotus new EP spirit box

Flying Lotus releases new EP, Spirit Box

New EP includes “Ingo Swann” and “Garmonbozia,” plus Dawn Richard collab

Tunde Adebimpe Magnetic

TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe shares new song “Magnetic”

Solo debut out in 2025 via Sub Pop