Beyoncé’s massive Cowboy Carter Tour has not been without some bumps. A couple months ago, the superstar was hit with a cease-and-desist from the Vegas Shere over jokey visual displayed during her performance. The other week she had to halt her hometown show in Houston when her flying car malfunctioned. It’s only getting worse: Last week thieves broke into her team’s SUV and stole several items, including hard drives containing unreleased music.

Wicca Phase Springs Eternal is the solo project of former Tigers Jaw guitarist/vocalist Adam Andrzejewski (né McIlwee), also a co-founder of the emo rap collective GothBoiClique. He’s released quite a few albums under the Wicca Phase moniker since departing Tigers Jaw, with the most recent being 2023’s self-titled. Today Andrzejewski has announced a new album called Mossy Oak Shadow, arriving in September, which is billed as a record of “mystical folk rock.” There are two singles out now called “Horseback” and “Enchantment,” and it’s true — they’re not sounding very emo rap.

Enigmatic electronic duo Two Shell released their great self-titled LP last October, and they played a couple songs from it during their recent set at Glastonbury’s club-ready IICON Stage. Also during that set, which you can listen to in full, they played a few songs that had yet to be released until now. Today Two Shell are back with a surprise-released album called IIcons. According to a press release, the album is “a collection of previously unreleased tracks” that “offers a deep dive into glitchy, dark, and emotive club music — much of it familiar to fans who’ve caught Two Shell live over the past year.” Two Shell add in their own statement:

The surviving members of Soundgarden have sometimes performed together in the years since Chris Cornell’s death — with Brandi Carlile, for instance — and they were originally among the massive list of metal and hard rock legends slated to perform at this month’s Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath farewell concert. But somewhere along the line they dropped off the lineup without an announcement or explanation. That explanation has come today, sort of.

Few people in pop music have earned a comeback more than Kesha Sebert. For over a decade, her career has been defined by producer and ex-collaborator Lukasz Gottwald, a man she openly despises with good reason. Kesha sued the producer, better known as Dr. Luke, in 2014, accusing him of rape and psychological abuse. (The case was settled in 2023.) Yet her music was still bound to him both literally — she didn’t get out of her contract with Luke’s Kemosabe Records until 2023 — and figuratively. Sometimes that subtext was intentional, as on diss track “Praying,” or the title of her final Kemosabe album, Gag Order (since renamed Eat The Acid).

The Rubicon music festival was originally scheduled to take place in the Slovakian city of Bratislava next weekend, but this week organizers announced that the whole event had been scrapped. The news follows a public outcry about the festival’s planned headliner, Kanye West.

Brian Baker is in a million Columbus bands including the “avant-garage” act DANA, whose new album Clean Living is very much worth your time. Among Baker’s many projects is a solo endeavor called Brain Damage in which he steers his usual punk and indie stylings in a slightly more synth-heavy direction. A new Brian Damage tape called All Hell Broke Loose is coming in August, and Baker is previewing this week with lead single “Futuro House.” It’s a richly layered and highly catchy lo-fi pop song with plenty of guitars to go along with those keyboards. Check it out below, and stick around for the DANA album too.

Drake is spending the weekend headlining the Wireless Festival at London’s Finsbury Park, promising three entirely different sets over three nights. Things kicked off Friday with an R&B-focused set that concluded with special guest Lauryn Hill, fresh off her 3 a.m. Essence Festival performance; she sang “Ex-Factor” before Drake’s performance of the “Ex-Factor”-sampling “Nice For What.” He also flew around the crowd while Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” played. There were also appearances from PARTYNEXTDOOR (his longtime collaborator, with whom he released the album $OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U this year), Bryson Tiller, GIVĒON, Mario, and Bobby V.

In May Field Music performed their first show as a Doors tribute band. After some backlash from fans, the British art-rock duo shared a statement as to what inspired the new project called the Fire Doors.