Last year was huge for Saul Williams. The multi-hyphenate played the role of a preacher in the blockbuster film Sinners. A few months later, he released a collaborative album with Carlos Niño, earning him his first Grammy nomination. Now, he’s announcing its followup, Leaf Life, which features Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja, Kamasi Washington, Moor Mother, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Surya Botofasina, and more.

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As heard on their new track out today, the Raleigh post-punk band RIBS are like a harder, meaner, spacier Hold Steady, mixing classic rock riffs with Mike Wallace’s spoken and shouted narration. After a long and accomplished tenure as a live act, RIBS released their debut album Junk Dynasty Leaderboard last year. They’re putting out their second, COLD RIBS, this summer via the great North Carolina indie institution Three Lobed, whose Cory Rayborn seemed to have a lot of fun describing the band in a note to Bandcamp followers today:

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If you enjoy the playful, gritty greatness of acts like Smirk or Snõõper, you may already be familiar with Mesh, whose 2001 eponymous EP is a beloved, scrappy gem. We haven’t heard from them since, until today. The Philly band is finally announcing their debut LP misleadingly titled No Fun At All, which is out next month.

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During the rollout to his recent album Experimental Rap, JPEGMAFIA definitely got on some of his rap peers’ nerves, but he didn’t piss all of them off. Case in point: JPEGMAFIA is the sole producer of O.Y.N, a new album from the great Houston underground mainstay Maxo Kream.

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Way back in 2014, k.d. lang reached out to fellow singer-songwriters Neko Case and Laura Veirs to see if they wanted to make an album as a trio. Case and Veirs enthusiastically agreed, so they all started working together in Portland for a couple of years. The three of them became a group known as case/lang/veirs, and they toured together after releasing a self-titled album, which came out on this day in 2016. Today, case/lang/veirs celebrate that anniversary by announcing a deluxe edition and sharing a previously unreleased song.

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The Austin combo Guiding Light includes two members of local indiepop rising stars Touch Girl Apple Blossom, but this group jangles a bit differently. Guiding Light’s lo-fi self-titled EP was full of twitchy, hyperactive post-punk — the sound of virtuosic Television guitar moving at contorted Minutemen rhythms, topped off by Elise Cook’s blunt German bellows and English exclamations on sort of a Kleenex/Liliput wavelength. It was cool.

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Over the weekend, Primal Scream headlined Ireland’s Beyond The Pale festival. For their 12 song set, the band reunited with former member Kevin Shields, who played the first My Bloody Valentine show in seven years last November.

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There’s a surfeit of post-punk bands these days; it can be hard to stand out. That’s not a problem for Sweeping Promises, though. The first You Say I Romanticize single “Shooting Shadows” was a memorable banger, and its followup “Cocoon” is even better.

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Last month, Shannon Lay announced her new album Past The Veil and shared the title track. Now, the LA singer-songwriter is releasing a lush, placid new single called “Horizons.”

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Ever since 2001, the smiling young collective known as the Kidz Bop Kids has offered up countless chirpy, family-friendly covers of pop hits. The Kidz Bop Kids have been through god knows how many iterations over the years. Zendaya was a Kidz Bop Kid once! So was Becky G! But even as the group itself has changed, their method has not. Sometimes, the Kidz Bop Kids’ lyrically edits of those pop hits can be very funny, as when they took on Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” two years ago. Sometimes, though, they can fundamentally change the meaning of a lyric, to the point where the guy who wrote the original song feels like he has to say something.

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