The other week, it seemed that Henry Rollins was teasing a new record with Ian MacKaye. It turns out he was not. The former Black Flag frontman made a rather misleading blog post, and now he is clarifying exactly what’s going on.

In July, Billy McFarland auctioned off Fyre Festival and sold it for $245,300, complaining that the price was “so low.” In September, he revealed the buyer was none other than LimeWire. Did you think the notorious entrepreneur’s ridiculous ventures would end there? Of course not. He’s launching a new island festival called PHNX 2025, and it’s slated for Dec. 4-Dec. 8 on Diamond Cay in the Caribbean. French Montana has been announced as the headliner.

Vampire Weekend are having fun on their tour, using the encore to launch into a bunch of covers. Last night the beloved indie rockers played Vegas and teased the audience with a brief, jokey rendition of Geese’s “Taxes.”

Bleed me dry. Spit in my eye. Tighten my tie. I don’t know why. I’m that type of guy. Um, Jennifer? aren’t fucking around on their new track “Stunning.” Or maybe that’s exactly what they’re doing. It’s a lecherous banger from an up-and-coming group who aren’t afraid of anything — like titling a song “Old Grimes” — and it’s further evidence of why we named them a Band To Watch back in April.

Into It. Over It. are prepping a new album. Last year they shared Interesting Decisions: Into It. Over It. Songs (2020-2023), and now the emo favorites are “slowly working” on its followup. For now, we get the great preview “Hypernormalisation.”

Hayley Williams was supposed to head on her first solo tour back in 2020, and you can guess how that played out. Now the Paramore leader is finally hitting the road on her own following the release of Ego Death At The Bachelorette Party, according to the 20 dates she leaked herself.

Radiohead! You remember those guys, right? They’re playing shows again! Crazy! Earlier this week, Radiohead kicked off their first tour since 2018. They’re playing four-night stands in five major European cities, and they’re now three quarters of the way through their opening set of shows in Madrid. People were very excited to learn what they played at their first show back. At night two, they played some songs they hadn’t done in 16 years. The third show went down earlier tonight, and they dusted off “Just.”

The Grammys are just around the corner, on Sunday, Feb. 1, and now we know who’ll be competing for the awards. The Recording Academy announced the nominees in a livestream this morning. We’ll update this post as we go.

We made Chicago rockers Twin Peaks a Band To Watch back in 2014, when they were a bunch of precocious teenagers. They went on to become one of the most consistently rewarding bands of their era, kicking out a rich discography and helping to foster the scene that yielded artists like Sharp Pins/Lifeguard’s Kai Slater and Stranger Things actor-musicians Joe Keery and Finn Wolfhard. (Wolfhard recently told us he met Slater, who produced his recent solo album, through Twin Peaks’ Cadien Lake James.) We haven’t heard anything from the band (no relation to the David Lynch TV series) since 2020, when they contributed to our own Save Stereogum compilation. But it seems like they might be swinging back into action.