Mayhem has descended upon us. Lady Gaga’s long-awaited return to pop is finally here, following a rollout that has lasted for nearly seven months and overlapped with last fall’s jazzy Harlequin project.

Roy Ayers, the jazz-funk pioneer known for the hit “Everybody Loves The Sunshine,” has died. He passed away on Tuesday (March 4) in New York City following a long illness. He was 84.

Last year, Coldplay released their latest LP Moon Music and Chris Martin said the band wouldn’t be making that many more albums. Now, the frontman is working alongside FIFA to help curate the first ever halftime show at the World Cup final next year.

Last year, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour came to an end after selling over $2 billion in tickets. The nearly two-year long run was not without problems; on Monday (March 3), it was revealed that two people in New York allegedly stole and resold more than 900 tickets and turned a profit of $635,000.

Today, Yaeji released the new song “Pondeggi.” The Korea-born, New York-based singer and DJ is also a part of a new AI project with Microsoft and TBA Agency called Artifacts, along with Swedish rapper Bladee, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and producer Cuco, and other artists.

If you like your chamber music to be dense, droning, and dissonant, you’re probably a big fan of Lucy Railton. The British cellist and composer — who has worked with titans like Kali Malone and Stephen O’Malley, Phill Niblock, Laurel Halo, and Patti Smith — today announces Blue Veil, her first ever album of solo cello recordings. Recorded at Église du Saint-Esprit in Paris, it’s coming in April via Ideologic Organ. “Phase III,” a preview track out now, is a nine-minute plunge into a haunted meditative state, and I mean that in the best way. Listen below.

Last month, Doechii was the center of attention at the Grammys when she won Best Rap Album and gave the best performance of the night. She released “Nosebleeds” shortly after the awards show, and today she’s already back with “Anxiety.”

In 2023, Seattle’s Dean Johnson shared his debut album Nothing For Me, Please on his 50th birthday and became an Americana darling. Today, he’s sharing his new song “Blue Moon” and announcing his signing to Saddle Creek.

Ezra Edelman, Oscar- and Emmy-winning director of the docuseries O.J.: Made In America, directed a nine-hour Prince documentary for Netflix that will seemingly never come out. Last year, after reports emerged that the doc contains some unflattering allegations about Prince — physical altercations with a girlfriend, antisemitic lyrics, asking Wendy Melvoin to renounce her homosexuality — multiple companies managing Prince’s estate took legal action against Netflix. Last month Netflix announced that it had mutually agreed with the estate to shelve the documentary and let Prince’s people make their own. Now Edelman is on the warpath.