Tonight St. Vincent performed a show at BBC Proms, the British broadcaster’s classical music concert series. At the Royal Albert Hall in London, Annie Clark played a bunch of deep cuts for the special occasion.

It’s been just about a year since Origami Angel hit us with the phenomenal Feeling Not Found. Today the hard-rocking yet maniacally catchy emo duo is back with their contribution to Cosmic Debris Vol. 2, a new compilation celebrating 10 years of the great Counter Intuitive Records.

David Byrne’s first solo album in seven years Who Is The Sky? is out this Friday, which recently occasioned a great chat with Stereogum’s buildings and food correspondent Rachel Brown. Today, as one last advance preview of the album, Byrne has shared a new collab with Hayley Williams, who also recently appeared in Stereogum videos with Brown. It’s all connected, people!

Young Thug hasn’t released much music since he was finally freed from jail after his years-long RICO trial ended late last year, and his long-teased album Uy Scuti still hasn’t come out. Right now, Thug is at the center of the rap conversation not for his music but for a series of leaked audio snippets, which are supposedly recordings of Thug’s jailhouse interrogation and his phone calls from jail. In one of those leaks, Thug seemingly claims that he bought a #1 album chart spot for his estranged protege Gunna. In another, he seems to try to do the same thing for himself.

Lady Gaga’s recent macabre album Mayhem was her successful funkified pop return, featuring zombies, monsters, and plenty of things that go bump in the night. It’s fitting then that, while she celebrates this new spooky chapter, she’s got a role in the Netflix series Wednesday, guest starring as legendary Nevermore teacher Rosaline Rotwood. Today, the entire season is available to stream, finally giving us a look at Gaga’s character. Mother monster has also released a new single for the show called “The Dead Dance,” a perfect gift to mentally and emotionally prepare for the rest of the season.

In July, the world lost Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne. Since the rock icon’s passing, many have paid tribute to him — including Geordie Greep, Ghost, and even Drake. Just last week System Of A Down, Metallica, Blues Traveler, Yungblud, the Go-Go’s & Jack Black, and Mastodon were among the bands covering Osbourne in concert. Despite the outpouring of admiration, there’s still a handful of contrarians who are eager to speak about their dislike for the heavy metal pioneers. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has made a bold statement about Osbourne, and Stephen King has randomly made clear his dislike of Black Sabbath.

Madchester, the glorious wave of rave-friendly rock bands that emerged from Manchester, England in the late ’80s and early ’90s, yielded heavily canonized artists like the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays. But there were lots of acts in that scene that have not been so thoroughly entrenched in music history. One such act was Joanna, a quartet whose sole album is about to get a spotlight moment three and a half decades later.

It would be pretty funny if the new Daphni single had something to do with the upcoming Stranger Things finale, but it seems pretty safe to say that that is not the case. Caribou leader Dan Snaith has recently been cranking out tracks under his dance music alter-ego, assisting on Sofia Kourtesis’ “Unidos” and releasing his own singles “Sad Piano House” and “Clap Your Hands.” His new track “Eleven” presumably is not an ode to Millie Bobby Brown’s telekinetic secret-lab escapee, but since it has no lyrics, we simply cannot say for certain.

These days, Belfast rap group Kneecap is probably better-known as a symbol for free speech and pro-Palestinian solidarity than as an actual musical entity, but they’re still making music. A few months ago, Kneecap shared their new single “The Recap.” Today, they’ve got another one, a rave rap-rap track called “Sayōnara” that’s produced by Paul Hartnoll from Orbital.

Back in the day, R.E.M. almost never printed their lyrics in their liner notes. Michael Stipe famously did not enunciate those lyrics very clearly much of the time, which led to generations of listeners singing along with their own fill-in-the-blanks versions of his lyrics. That was especially the case with R.E.M’s classic 1987 college-radio smash “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” a blitz of rapid-fire cultural-reference non sequiturs that has remained fairly opaque for the last 38 years. The internet abhors a vacuum, so you can find plenty of transcripts of the “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It” lyrics online. But Michael Stipe, now finally breaking his silence, is here to let us know that those transcripts are wrong.