Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album Wish You Were Here on September 12, 1975, which means that today is that LP’s 50th anniversary. Much of the album’s running time was given over to “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” the band’s nine-part tribute to their troubled ex-frontman Syd Barrett. Wish You Were Here got tepid reviews when it first came out, but it has since achieved the same kind of canonical classic-rock status as its 1973 predecessor Dark Side Of The Moon, and its title track is a dorm-room acoustic-guitar staple. Former Pink Floyd bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour seem unlikely to patch things up anytime soon, but they’re not in control of the Pink Floyd business entity anymore anyway. Later this year, Sony Music will release a Wish You Were Here box set with some previously unreleased material.

Yumi Zouma recently went to see Oasis, but they’ve been busy with their own music too. All year the Christchurch combo has been kicking out new songs — “Bashville On The Sugar,” “Blister,” “Cross My Heart And Hope To Die” — and they can now confirm that all of those songs are on No Love Lost To Kindness, their first album since 2022’s spectacular Present Tense.

Earlier this year, Stereolab unveiled Instant Holograms On Metal Film, their first album in 15 years. Today, the avant-pop wizards are back with two new songs, “Fed Up With Your Job” and “Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown.”

Earlier this year, the R&B star Kali Uchis released her album Sincerely. Since then, she’s been touring arenas and sharing stages with some very big surprise guests. Now, there’s another star who could conceivably join her onstage at any moment. Much like Uchis, Ravyn Lenae started out on the artier fringes of the R&B world before finding mainstream fame. Right now, Lenae’s 2024 song “Love Me Not,” a surprise TikTok smash, is sitting comfortably in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. (It’s #8 this week, and it’s gone as high as #5.) This morning, Uchis and Lenae have a new song together.

In 2016, bucolic New Jersey indie rockers Real Estate parted ways with founding guitarist Matt Mondanile amidst a storm of sexual assault allegations against Mondanile. The band quickly replaced him with Julian Lynch, a musician who also makes solo music under his own name. Last month, Lynch announced that he’s leaving Real Estate after finishing his last few shows with them. Yesterday, Real Estate identified the musician who will be taking Lynch’s vacated place.

A new month is upon us, and in pop in 2025 that means one thing: New sensitive dude just dropped. His name, unfortunately, is sombr. His aesthetic is part indie sleaze, part Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest. Despite his stage name, his music is not really somber; it’s jaunty radio bait that, if not fully rock, is certainly rock-coded. His lyrics aren’t quite somber either, but they’re definitely pained: His album, I Barely Know Her, presents 10 angles on the girl who broke his heart. Unsurprisingly, he gets mobbed by girls both on stage — see last weekend’s VMA PDA — and in person; one imagines that at least some of his fast-growing fanbase was drawn by the seductive pull of “I can fix him.”

On Sunday night, the MTV Video Music Awards staged a tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne, with the young British rocker type Yungblud joining Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry and Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt to perform a medley of Osbourne’s songs. Lots of people wasn’t into it. One of those people was the Darkness guitarist Dan Hawkins. In an Instagram post that went viral, Hawkins called the performers and possibly the audience and network executives “a bunch of bellends.” Now, Hawkins’ brother and bandmate Justin, lead singer for the Darkness, has put together a YouTube video explaining why people might thing that Yungblud specifically is a bit of a bellend — or, as he terms it, a “poser.”

Sudan Archives is gearing up for the release of The BPM next month. So far she’s released an enthralling batch of singles including “DEAD,” “MY TYPE,” “YEA YEA YEA,” and “MS. PAC-MAN.” Now, she’s back with “COME AND FIND YOU.”

Oh man, “Yellow,” remember that? Chris Martin running down the beach talking about “look at the stars, look how they shine for you”? Coldplay have certainly had some cheesy moments over the years. You might even argue that “Yellow,” the band’s 2000 breakout hit, was a cheesy moment in itself. I loved it, though. Wisp doesn’t remember any of that because the young shoegaze phenom wasn’t born when “Yellow” came out, but she just covered the song anyway.

When Sabrina Carpenter made her Coachella debut in 2024 — on the same day she released “Espresso” — she was still doing her location-specific “Nonsense” outros. During her late-afternoon main stage set, she sang: “He’s drinkin’ my bath water like it’s red wine/ Coachella, see you back here when I headline!” I guess manifestation works or whatever, because Carpenter, along with Colombian reggaeton-pop star Karol G, are reportedly headlining Coachella 2026.