Last Thursday, the Pentagon confirmed that US Army chief of staff Randy George would be suddenly leaving his role after two and a half years. It’s believed that he was fired by Fox News contributor-turned Trump advisor-turned secretary of defense Pete Hegseth, whose reason for ousting George remains unclear, especially as US forces continue waging war with Iran. Since news broke of his forced retirement, George has received praise and sympathy across party lines from veterans, political leaders, and friends. One of those friends just so happens to be Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan.

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It’s fun when the elusive Sky Ferreira sings on a song, even when that song apparently is not hers. That happened just a couple of months ago when she teamed up with Charli XCX on “Eyes Of The World,” a track from Charli’s Wuthering Heights album. But in the past few weeks, Ferreira — who’s only released a handful of singles in the past decade — has suggested that her fingerprints are a lot more prominent than we realized.

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Last summer the Slovak music festival Rubicon was cancelled on short notice after organizers faced backlash for booking Kanye West as its headliner. In January, the artist now going by Ye issued a contentious apology disavowing his previous alignment with right-wing ideologies and embrace of Nazi rhetoric. He chalked up his abusive and erratic behavior to his bipolar disorder and a previously undiagnosed brain injury, adding that he was now committed to “accountability, treatment, and meaningful change.” Two months later, he dropped his new album BULLY, which is out now.

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Tonight was Jack Black’s fifth time hosting Saturday Night Live and Jack White’s sixth time performing, including once with the White Stripes (he also played SNL50: The Anniversary Special last year). The duo known as Jack Gray made the most of the clever booking by appearing in a couple of sketches together.

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This is a lot cooler than Katy Perry going into space: NASA played Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” to wake up the astronauts on Artemis II this morning. However, mission control abruptly cut the audio after Roan sang “heels.” “We were all eagerly awaiting the chorus,” Commander Reid Wiseman joked.

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Vanessa Carlton and John McCauley have been embroiled in an ongoing legal battle with noisy neighbors for a couple years now. The “A Thousand Miles” singer and Deer Tick member brought the conflict to the Rhode Island Supreme Court on Thursday (April 2) while hundreds of high schoolers observed.

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Last year, Tekashi 6ix9ine violated the terms of his supervised release and was sentenced to three months behind bars. The controversial rapper got out of federal detention yesterday, and he was holding a SpongeBob doll he bragged was signed by the former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

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The xx are back. The indie greats will be performing at Coachella, Kilby Block Party, and Primavera Sound this year, and last night they played their first show in eight years in Mexico City.

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We love Finnish screamo here at Stereogum. OK, that’s a little broad. More specifically, I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve heard from the Jyväskylä-based band Alas. That includes “Hän pukeutui aurinkoon,” a new track that hit their Bandcamp today. Alas say “Hän pukeutui aurinkoon” is a preview from an upcoming album, and as a sonic promo campaign…

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Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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