“There’s nothing romantic in being alone.” So goes the refrain on Sunflower Bean’s surprising new single. The song — our latest preview of the NYC rock band’s forthcoming Mortal Primetime — boasts a power-chord-blasted chorus with huge harmonized hooks, straight out of ’70s and ’80s arena rock. The band cites Heart, Pat Benatar, and Joan Jett as inspirations, and, yeah, it really does fit into that lineage. “Nothing Romantic” also features piano from Jellyfish’s Roger Joseph Manning Jr. and a video directed by Sophia Feuer.

You should go see Sabrina Carpenter in concert if you can. It’s fun! On her ongoing Short N’ Sweet Tour, there’s a portion where she plays “spin the bottle,” but the bottle’s landing location determines what song she’ll perform next — often a cover, sometimes a live debut. On Sunday night in London the bottle landed on “Come On Eileen,” Dexys Midnight Runners’ 1982 hit. She sure looked like she had a lot of fun singing it.

Grails went half a decade between albums before dropping 2023’s Aches En Maat on us, but this time around the Portland instrumental experimentalists will be returning with new music much more quickly. Less than two years later, they’re set to release Miracle Music this spring. Opening track “Silver Bells” is by no means a cover of the holiday classic. Instead, it’s a gradually building tidal wave of futuristic vibes reportedly built from Florida breaks and vintage bank-heist soundtracks, centered on synthesizers and a steadily clattering beat.

Florist’s new album Jellywish is just under a month away, and the folk band has been supplying us with some good teasers in the meantime. The record includes the singles “Have Heaven,” “This Was A Gift,” and “Gloom Designs,” and today, Florist have shared another one called “Moon, Sea, Devil.”

Los Angeles hardcore punk band Zulu performed at NDP in São Paolo, Brazil on Sunday. Frontman Anaiah Muhammad, however, wasn’t there, with guitarist Dez Yusuf filling in on vocals. It appears that the band, which started as Muhammad’s solo project, didn’t address Muhammad’s absence, but the performance came a day after a former partner of his accused him in detail of physical and psychological abuse.

The politically righteous, melodically sharp Manitoba punks Propagandhi have been a band since 1986, and they’ve never made a record that wasn’t worth hearing. Increasingly, those guys take long breaks between records. Their most recent was Victory Lap, and that one came out eight years ago. Right now, the world could really use a new Propagandhi record, and we’re about to get one. Their new LP has the presumably-ironic title At Peace, and it’s set to arrive this spring — right on time, if you ask me.

Three women have won Best Rap Album at the Grammys: Ms. Lauryn Hill (as a member of Fugees), Cardi B, and most recently Doechii. Both Hill and Doechii performed at Jazz In The Gardens Music Festival in Miami Saturday night, and during Hill’s set, she brought out Doechii to do “Doo Wop (That Thing)” together.

In January, Finneas covered the Zombies’ 1968 classic “Time Of The Season” for Triple J’s Like A Version series. Colin Blunstone, who sang lead vocals on the original recording, said he was “thrilled” by Finneas’ “really special” interpretation of it, and so Finneas began incorporating his “Time Of The Season” cover into his live shows. At his show in Los Angeles last week, Blunstone joined him for a duet of “Time Of The Season” onstage. It must’ve been special for Finneas and all, but I’m mostly just impressed Blunstone’s upper register still sounds that good. Check out some clips below.

On Feb. 26, the space exploration company Intuitive Machines launched their IM-2 “Freedom Payload” mission, an effort to establish a data center on the lunar south pole designed and operated by Lonestar Data Holdings. That data center was one of the payloads on the Athena moon lander, which launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the intention of searching for water ice that humans could utilize on future missions. But following a botched landing of a similar mission last year, this one ended rather anticlimactically: After touching down about 100 miles away from its intended landing location, Athena tipped over, curtailing the mission. But, depending on how you look at the situation, it wasn’t a total failure: Lonestar’s Freedom Data Center remained intact, carrying eight terabytes worth of material as a backup to Earth storage. Among that material is an Imagine Dragons song.