Lucy Dacus is releasing her new solo album Forever Is A Feeling next week, and in a new article in the New Yorker centered on the album, she confirms a longstanding rumor: She’s dating her boygenius bandmate Julien Baker. The two singer-songwriters have often been spotted together in the months since boygenius went on indefinite hiatus following last year’s big Grammy haul, and online detectives have often speculated about their romantic involvement. Now, journalist Amanda Petrusich’s Dacus profile makes it plain: “Dacus is now in a committed relationship with Baker.”

It appears that new music from Wet Leg is imminent. The uber-famous indie pop band broke months of social media silence Monday by sharing a group portrait — core duo Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers with backing members Henry Holmes, Josh Mobaraki, and Ellis Durand — posing with a guy in zombie makeup and a bunch of stuffed animals. The caption says, “we’re so back,” along with a link to the band’s website. So there you have it.

A fire during a nightclub show in Kocani, North Macedonia killed 59 people early Sunday morning, the AP reports. Video footage shows sparklers from the stage hitting the ceiling, resulting a blaze that caused a portion of the one-story club’s roof to collapse.

Denis Leary doesn’t like R.E.M.’s “Shiny Happy People.” He proclaimed as much way back in 1992, the year after the Out Of Time single came out, when he did an MTV spot based on his standup routine poking fun at the state of rock ‘n’ roll. “R.E.M. ‘Shiiiiiny haaaaapy people’… hey, hey, hey, pull that bus over to the side of the Pretentiousness Turnpike…,” the comedian seethed in the promo. “I got two words for Michael Stipe: Steve. Tyler.” That sounds a bit harsh, but even Stipe has expressed some mixed feelings about the polarizing bubblegum hit, which featured the B-52s’ Kate Pierson, got R.E.M. invited to Sesame Street, and reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s Hot 100. The R.E.M. frontman told Space Ghost “I hate that song” back in 1995 and explained to The Quietus in 2011 that “it’s just a little bit embarrassing that it became as big a hit as it did.”

Rolling Loud California is currently underway. Headliner A$AP Rocky performed Saturday night, and he made quite a spectacle out of it, rapping from a helicopter with the words “Don’t Be Dumb” on it — the name of his long-delayed new album — before being lowered onto the stage. He did some new songs too.

You’ve no doubt heard about Gelo by now. He’s a Chino Hills, CA rapper whose real name is LiAngelo Ball. His brothers, Lonzo Ball and LaMelo Ball, are starting point guards in the NBA. “Ball” is their real last name. That’s incredible. Anyway, Gelo didn’t get quite as lucky in the hoops department, but that’s OK because his January debut single “Tweaker” went viral and landed him a massive record deal with Def Jam. In the weeks since, he’s teamed up with Lil Wayne and GloRilla. And over the weekend, he did his first-ever proper gig in front of a big-ass crowd at Rolling Loud California, where he also performed a couple of unreleased songs.

Shudder To Think, the great D.C. alt-rock band whose first few albums arrived via Dischord Records, have made a couple of brief reunions since they initially disbanded in 1998. One of those brief reunions just so happened to occur on Saturday, when they played two gigs at Los Angeles’ Permanent Records Roadhouse. It was their first show since 2013.

San Francisco’s Badvril were the first shoegaze band to play a federal prison, at least according to their TikTok. The group has been releasing loud, dreamy tunes since 2023, and on Friday (March 14) they shared their debut album In Heaven.

Earlier this month, Puddle Of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin made headlines for giving a disastrous performance and then claiming he was roofied by his bandmate. Today, TMZ is reporting that the singer was arrested for domestic violence on Tuesday (March 11).

SXSW is going down in Austin. On Thursday (March 13), Julien Baker and Torres — who have a collaborative album called Send A Prayer My Way arriving soon — are having fun. On Thursday (March 13), the pair covered Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried” at Willie Nelson’s ranch’s SXSW-adjacent Luck Reunion. There, they also debuted the unreleased LP track “Showdown.”