She was a kid. That’s the first thing I think when I see the Sprained Ankle album cover today. It was probably the first thing I thought when I first saw that album cover in 2015. Baker was 19 years old when she made her debut LP, and she looked younger than that. The record came out shortly after her 20th birthday. (Baker herself turned 30 less than a month ago. Today marks 10 years since the release of Sprained Ankle.) The 19-year-old Julien Baker had done a lot of things. She’d been through addiction and recovery. She’d released an album with her teenage DIY band, and she’d toured house-show venues, with her dad in the car so that the kids in the group wouldn’t get in trouble for crossing state line without a chaperone. She’d almost died in a car accident. But still, she was barely more than a child.

Dave Ball, one half of the pioneering synthpop duo Soft Cell, has passed away. Soft Cell’s Instagram account confirms that Ball died peacefully at home in London on Wednesday. No cause of death has been reported. Ball was 66.

In May, Foo Fighters fired their drummer Josh Freese. Shortly after, they released a Minor Threat cover and an original song called “Today’s Song.” They hired Nine Inch Nails’ Ilan Rubin and then did a bunch of surprise shows at small venues in September. In October, they joined Bandcamp with a live EP of performances from those gigs, with proceeds going to charity. Now, they’re sharing a new track called “Asking For A Friend” and announcing a North American stadium tour with Queens Of The Stone Age, Mannequin Pussy, and Gouge Away (who were featured on the mixtapes Foos had at the pop-up shows).

Indie fixture Father/Daughter Records is celebrating 15 years of existence with the F/D Fifteen series, in which artists from the label are covering songs by other artists in the catalog. The latest installment comes from mui zyu, who delivered a haunting take on “Astral Plane” from Shamir’s 2017 F/D debut Revelations. What began as an indie-pop/reggae hybrid has been transformed into a shapeless, dreamy ballad that floats along a cloud, pierced partway through by searing electric guitar.

Earlier this year, SASAMI released her third album Blood On The Silver Screen. Today, she’s released a new version of “Just Be Friends” with Soccer Mommy.

Artist To Watch Mei Simones is embracing the momentum. The genre-hopping musician released her debut album Animaru this past May, which was then followed by the one-off single “Itsumo.” Today, she’s back with two more singles “Kurayami” and “Get Used To It.”

Jeff Tweedy released his solo triple album Twilight Override last month, and last night he stopped by The Late Show to perform a couple of tracks as the musical guest. The Wilco frontman performed album highlights “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter” and “Enough” with his sons Spencer and Sammy Tweedy backing him on drums and vocals, respectively.

You know Alex Ebert. You know him even if you don’t know that you know him. Ebert is best-known to most of us as Edward Sharpe, and his band Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes were the progenitors of the stomp-clap folk movement that you know and love. Earlier this year, there was a whole lot of online chatter about whether their 2010 hit “Home” is the “worst song ever made.” In the wake of all that, our own Chris DeVille had a long, fascinating conversation with Ebert, which also touched on his time in the pre-Edward Sharpe dance-punk band Ima Robot. Now, a lost Ima Robot album is about to get an official release.

Lizzo has another lawsuit on her hands, and it somehow relates to the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle controversy.