When Jimmy Fallon introduced a PinkPantheress performance on last night’s Tonight Show, I thought that he couldn’t possibly be right. PinkPantheress has already spawned a whole mini-generation of insular dance-pop imitators, so she must have been on TV before that. As far as I can tell, though, Fallon was actually correct. It makes sense. PinkPantheress began her career during the pandemic, when she’d never even been inside a club. When she started playing live shows, there was a goofy little mini-controversy about how she didn’t seem to care about the process one bit. Maybe her people were actually trying to keep her off of TV until she was ready. But now, she has played tons of big venues and festivals, and she also just got an honorary doctorate. I guess it was time.

A couple weeks ago, They Are Gutting A Body Of Water announced their new album LOTTO and unveiled the single “trainers,” which we very much enjoyed. It followed May’s “American Food,” and now the Philly band is back with a new tune called “my car is singing like a locust,” which is not on the LP because they’re just that generous.

Little by little, the Drumpocalypse is being mitigated. Following Josh Freese’s firing in May, Foo Fighters will be replacing him with drummer Ilan Rubin, and Freese will return the favor by filling in for him on Nine Inch Nails’ tour.

Last week, Spanish fashion designer Miguel Adrover made a post about refusing to work with Rosalía due to her silence on the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Today, the Spanish superstar addressed the situation.

Ganser are back with another Animal Hospital preview, one that technically began all the way back in 2001. “stripe” follows “Black Sand” and “Discount Diamonds,” and it’s a hypnotic, existential little number.

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.

Earlier this year, a Richard Linklater-directed biopic of Lorenz Hart titled Blue Moon premiered at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. It stars Ethan Hawke as the lead, alongside Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott, and the first trailer is here.

In March, the Voidz released “Blue Demon,” their first material since last year’s Like All Before You. Today, the Julian Casablancas-led band surprise-dropped an EP called MęĞż øF rÅm.

Meet Dovetail, a duo made up of Vassar students Brynne Mershon and Naomi Sullins. The pair met at an open mic night, where they immediately bonded over Elliott Smith. Taking influence from acts like Mazzy Star, Weyes Blood, and Beach House, Dovetail’s first offering is the wispy “raining here, too,” which they released Friday (July 25).

Over the past couple of months Pickle Darling, the project of New Zealand musician Lukas Mayo, has shared the sweet indie pop singles “Massive Everything” and “Human Bean Instruction Manual.” Mayo is following those up today with the new single “Violence Voyager,” along with the news that all three of those songs will appear on the forthcoming Pickle Darling album Battlebots, out in September.