Two years ago indie rock veterans Nina Nastasha and Jeff MacLeod teamed up for a self-titled album under the name Jolie Laide. They’ve got a new LP called Creatures in the queue, now with bandmates Clinton St. John, and Morgan Greenwood in tow. (Kathryn Calder of the New Pornographers also plays keyboards on a few tracks.) Lead single “No Shape I Know” is an eerie and spacious track that shines a spotlight on Nastasha and MacLeod’s impassioned vocals. Listen below.

Former Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy is arguably the original goth overlord, and all later generations of goth overlord must show their fealty. Murphy has been on a bumpy road lately, and the most recent Bauhaus reunion ended abruptly when Murphy checked into rehab in 2022. But Murphy is back in action now, and he released the Boy George duet “Let The Flowers Grow” last year. Today, Murphy has a new song with his fellow goth overlord Trent Reznor.

In 1975, the studio-happy British art-rock band 10cc released their sophomore album The Original Soundtrack. That record is best-known for “I’m Not In Love,” a spacey and eerie six-minute anxiety-reverie that became an unlikely worldwide hit, reaching #1 in the UK and #2 in the US. The group broke up in 1983 before reuniting in different incarnations over the years. Now, two key members of 10cc have gotten back together to perform a special 50th-anniversary rendition of “I’m Not In Love” with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

This winter, after a lengthy wait that had superfans like SZA losing their minds, Severance returned for its second season on Apple TV+. Season two is still in the process of airing (if you haven’t caught up yet, do it, Seth!), but now that production is finally finished on the Severance front, executive producer Ben Stiller is moving forward with other projects. Specifically, he’s starring in a new HBO series called The Band.

Peter Gabriel and Sia are two of the more outwardly strange and arty pop stars ever to land #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Today happens to be Gabriel’s 75th birthday, and Sia is paying tribute to her art-pop forebear by releasing a charity cover of one of his most enduring classics.

Cross Record’s first Crush Me single “Charred Grass” was only slightly off-kilter. On its follow-up, “God Fax,” out today, UK-based singer-songwriter Emily Cross takes the sinister energy to the max.