Charly Bliss spent 9/11 on a boat. The beloved NYC pop-rockers played their first show in 10 months Thursday night on the Liberty Belle, which set sail from Pier 36 and made its way under the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, looping around the Statue of Liberty before returning to port. YouTube user IronChefWong was there, helpfully filming the whole show. The footage he uploaded today includes a new song, “Madrid,” which sounds as electrifying as anything the band has released to date, plus a very fun show-closing cover of Yellowcard’s “Ocean Avenue” (because they were on the water, I guess). According to his notes, their setlist also included Phantom Planet’s The O.C. theme “California,” but the boat was already docked, so the show came to an end. Check out “Madrid” and “Ocean Avenue” below.

Mac DeMarco is out there making all the promo stops in support of his new album Guitar, and he couldn’t be happier about it. In a recent New Yorker profile headlined “Is Mac DeMarco The Last Indie Rock Star?” he explained that he cannot relate with musicians who complain about going on tour:

Look, I don’t know what to tell you. Things happen. We don’t get to control current events. You might not be delighted to learn that Limp Bizkit have released a new song called “Makin’ Love To Morgan Wallen,” but that’s what happened. It’s a real song. It’s out on the marketplace now. Someone, somewhere, is going to be happy about this news. Can you begrudge this person their joy? Life is hard. If someone is happy about the existence of a new Limp Bizkit song called “Makin’ Love To Morgan Wallen,” then let them be happy.

Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album Wish You Were Here on September 12, 1975, which means that today is that LP’s 50th anniversary. Much of the album’s running time was given over to “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” the band’s nine-part tribute to their troubled ex-frontman Syd Barrett. Wish You Were Here got tepid reviews when it first came out, but it has since achieved the same kind of canonical classic-rock status as its 1973 predecessor Dark Side Of The Moon, and its title track is a dorm-room acoustic-guitar staple. Former Pink Floyd bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour seem unlikely to patch things up anytime soon, but they’re not in control of the Pink Floyd business entity anymore anyway. Later this year, Sony Music will release a Wish You Were Here box set with some previously unreleased material.

Yumi Zouma recently went to see Oasis, but they’ve been busy with their own music too. All year the Christchurch combo has been kicking out new songs — “Bashville On The Sugar,” “Blister,” “Cross My Heart And Hope To Die” — and they can now confirm that all of those songs are on No Love Lost To Kindness, their first album since 2022’s spectacular Present Tense.

Earlier this year, Stereolab unveiled Instant Holograms On Metal Film, their first album in 15 years. Today, the avant-pop wizards are back with two new songs, “Fed Up With Your Job” and “Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown.”

Earlier this year, the R&B star Kali Uchis released her album Sincerely. Since then, she’s been touring arenas and sharing stages with some very big surprise guests. Now, there’s another star who could conceivably join her onstage at any moment. Much like Uchis, Ravyn Lenae started out on the artier fringes of the R&B world before finding mainstream fame. Right now, Lenae’s 2024 song “Love Me Not,” a surprise TikTok smash, is sitting comfortably in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. (It’s #8 this week, and it’s gone as high as #5.) This morning, Uchis and Lenae have a new song together.

In 2016, bucolic New Jersey indie rockers Real Estate parted ways with founding guitarist Matt Mondanile amidst a storm of sexual assault allegations against Mondanile. The band quickly replaced him with Julian Lynch, a musician who also makes solo music under his own name. Last month, Lynch announced that he’s leaving Real Estate after finishing his last few shows with them. Yesterday, Real Estate identified the musician who will be taking Lynch’s vacated place.

A new month is upon us, and in pop in 2025 that means one thing: New sensitive dude just dropped. His name, unfortunately, is sombr. His aesthetic is part indie sleaze, part Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest. Despite his stage name, his music is not really somber; it’s jaunty radio bait that, if not fully rock, is certainly rock-coded. His lyrics aren’t quite somber either, but they’re definitely pained: His album, I Barely Know Her, presents 10 angles on the girl who broke his heart. Unsurprisingly, he gets mobbed by girls both on stage — see last weekend’s VMA PDA — and in person; one imagines that at least some of his fast-growing fanbase was drawn by the seductive pull of “I can fix him.”

On Sunday night, the MTV Video Music Awards staged a tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne, with the young British rocker type Yungblud joining Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry and Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt to perform a medley of Osbourne’s songs. Lots of people wasn’t into it. One of those people was the Darkness guitarist Dan Hawkins. In an Instagram post that went viral, Hawkins called the performers and possibly the audience and network executives “a bunch of bellends.” Now, Hawkins’ brother and bandmate Justin, lead singer for the Darkness, has put together a YouTube video explaining why people might thing that Yungblud specifically is a bit of a bellend — or, as he terms it, a “poser.”