Fountains Of Wayne will play their first show in over a decade this summer, with Max Collins filling in on bass for the late Adam Schlesinger. But Collins hasn’t neglected his main band Eve 6: In the past few days, Eve 6 have shared two cover songs. The first is a rendition of Len’s “Steal My Sunshine” — a song that’s been covered many times — featuring L1zy. The second, a collaboration with Suzie True, is their take on Wreckless Eric’s 1977 song “Whole Wide World.”

Last year, Los Campesinos! released All Hell, which landed at #10 on our list of the best albums of the year. On Friday (Feb. 14) in London, the band played a lot of those songs live for the first time, as well as their deep cut “Tiptoe Through The True Bits.”

flyingfish — the shoegaze project of 16-year-old Sam Fishman — is getting ready for some shows with Launder, Soft Blue Shimmer, and other great acts. To prepare, he shared the new song “pitching stones” on Friday (Feb. 14).

On Friday (Feb. 14), Oscar-nominated actor Michael Shannon and indie rock veteran Jason Narducy kicked off their R.E.M. tribute band tour in Pioneertown, CA. The group played through the entirety of the 1985 album Fables Of The Reconstruction.

At first it seemed completely random. A Tuesday in February, and Paul McCartney was, for some reason, playing a surprise show at the 575-capacity Manhattan venue Bowery Ballroom. Then there was a Wednesday show. And, finally, a Friday special edition, a Valentine’s Day finale to cap off a week of Macca taking over downtown Manhattan before joining in with this weekend’s SNL 50 festivities.

Earlier this week, New York Dolls’ David Johansen revealed that he has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. His daughter, Leah Hennessey, launched a Sweet Relief fundrasier to help cover the cost of his treatment, and on Friday (Feb. 14) he and his wife Mara shared a video expressing gratitude for the support.

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — a nearly three-and-a-half-hour extravaganza produced by SNL creator/producer Lorne Michaels and Mark Ronson — took place at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall tonight. The event featured popular musicians young and old who have performed on NBC’s sketch comedy series over the decades, and the audience was filled with people who worked on the show in some form or another, so there were a lot of reaction shots of delighted celebrities. Even many of the commercials starred past SNL characters, and the show is just one part of a the program’s 50th anniversary weekend festivities, which cultivate with a prime time special airing Sunday night.

The title of Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR’s $OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U is supposed to be an exercise in self-referential fun: i.e., “You know us for making sneaky link soundtracks and — surprise — that’s exactly what we’re doing, so we’re going to phrase that concept as straightforwardly and casually as humanly possible.” It’s kinda funny. But the sterility of the music undoes the joke; it’s not an ironic punch as much as an apt description for a collection of tracks that are as disjointed as they are indistinct. They might as well have called it, These Are Our Sexy Songs — Here You Go. While $$$4U delivers on some of the sexy, it’s usually got all the charm and imagination of missionary with the lights off.

For Valentine’s Day, I got you new covers of two Genesis frontmen’s debut solo singles.

New Dawn has arrived. The debut solo album from Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen is out today, setting multiple Guinness World Records in the process. At 100 years and 265 days old, Allen is now certified as the oldest person to release a debut album, surpassing the previous record-holder (Colin Thackery, aged 89 years and 272 days when Love Changes Everything dropped in 2019) by more than a decade. Guinness has also named Allen the oldest person to release an album of new material. The previous record was held by Tony Bennett, who was 95 years and 58 days old when his second collaboration with Lady Gaga, Love For Sale, came out in 2021.