Montreal’s Thanya Iyer has announced her third album, TIDE/TIED, to follow her 2020 sophomore effort, KIND. The experimental-pop artist is sharing a slice today with the surreal single “Low Tides.”

No Windows have two impressive EPs under their belt, and now the young Edinburgh duo is adding another. The Great Traitor is produced by Ali Chant and slated for release in May, and they shared a taste today with the astonishing lead single “Return.”

It’s been several years since Tom Waits last performed in public, but now the legendary musician makes an appearance in an Italian docuseries. The eighth episode of The Human Factor is centered on homelessness in the American South, and it includes Waits performing and reading poetry.

Last summer, the members of the 1975 were hit with a $2.4 million lawsuit from Future Sound Asia, the organizers behind Malaysia’s Good Vibes Festival. The suit stemmed from an onstage kiss between frontman Matty Healy and bassist Ross MacDonald during the band’s 2023 headlining set, which they did in an effort to protest Malaysia’s very restrictive anti-homosexuality laws. The 1975’s set got cut about 45 minutes short, the rest of the festival was cancelled, and Good Vibes’ license was immediately revoked. Now, a London judge has ruled that the 1975 cannot be held liable, the AP reports.

The plucky and prolific Welsh band the Bug Club made the leap to Sub Pop for last year’s On The Intricate Inner Workings Of The System. Today they’re back with an apparent one-off dedicated to their homeland. “Have U Ever Been 2 Wales” is a fine introduction to the (ahem) buzzy indie duo, full of piercing hooks and anxious energy. Listen below.

There’s a new supergroup in town. Welcome Demise Of Love, the project of British musicians Daniel Avery, Ghost Culture (James Greenwood), and Working Men’s Club (Sydney Minsky Sargeant). The three entered the studio as fans of each others’ work, and they left with the Demise Of Love EP. The lead single “Strange Little Consequence” is out now.

NBC’s The Americas is a new nature docuseries narrated by Tom Hanks and scored by Hans Zimmer. The first episode premiered on Sunday (Feb. 23), and it also included a new song by Brandi Carlile called “Wandering.”

In November, Kim Deal unveiled her debut solo album Nobody Loves You More and told us about its influences. The former Pixies member and current Breeders leader kicked off her tour on Thursday (Feb. 20) in Dayton, OH, her hometown, and the show included first-ever performances of old solo singles and tracks from the new record.

Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy are currently on the road performing R.E.M.’s 1985 album Fables Of The Reconstruction in its entirety, about a year after they wrapped up a tour covering the band’s Murmur. On that first tour, during Shannon and Narducy’s show in R.E.M.’s Athens, Georgia hometown, they somehow got all four members of R.E.M. onstage with them, resulting in their first reunion in 17 years. Shannon and Narducy played in Portland, Oregon on Saturday night, and R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck and their touring guitarist Scott McCaughey once again hopped on stage with them.

“Next long-player/ Ooh, it’s coming out soon/ I’ll be honest/ I’m under the moon/ We’re only doing this ’cause it’s fun/ Don’t even think my mom bought the last one.” That’s a hilariously honest way to open your new single if you’re Justin Hawkins preparing to release a new Darkness album in 2025. More than two decades beyond “I Believe In A Thing Called Love,” the winkingly ironic yet also dead serious hair-metal pastiche masters will drop Dreams On Toast next month, and today’s new single “Walking Through Fire” is a gem. It’s not just cleverly self-effacing — it’s also mighty catchy.