Raincoats co-founder Gina Burch is following up her 2023 solo debut album I Play My Bass Loud with a second solo LP. Trouble is dropping July, and along with the announcement we get a music video for its thesis statement and title track of sorts.

Miley Cyrus’ new album Something Beautiful arrives at the end of the month. The pop star has been releasing singles in tracklist order, and the first three — “Prelude,” “Something Beautiful,” and “End Of The World” — featured unexpected collaborators such as Cole Haden of Model/Actriz, Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado, and members of Alvvays. Now, she’s back with track four, “More To Lose.”

A persistent conspiracy theory has long followed Glee actor and singer Lea Michele: Some people online believe — perhaps jokingly, perhaps seriously — that she can’t read. She put that bit to a rest on Wednesday’s new episode of Jake Shane’s Therapuss podcast.

After accepting a seven-year sentence as part of a plea deal related to drug and weapons charges in 2016, Bobby Shmurda was released from prison but found his career momentum stalled by his years in the criminal justice system. The Shmoney Dance inventor’s new music hasn’t moved the needle like his 2014 hit “Hot N****” did, and now it looks like he’s having some trouble on the touring front.

I became obsessed with Every Noise At Once, the Glenn McDonald-created, Spotify-associated genre database, back in 2022. While the best way to use the site might’ve been to meet new-to-you musical styles from all over the world, I immediately loaded up their playlist for lo-fi indie. I’ve been drawn to homespun, fuzzy, sentimental indie rock/pop since I was a teenager in the bedroom pop boom days, so I wanted to see what the tech world considered “lo-fi indie.” There were some big names like Mac DeMarco and Alex G mixed with unsung heroes of my ’10s youth like Hello Shark and Cyberbully Mom Club. The Microphones and Duster hits were interspersed between They Are Gutting A Body Of Water and Feeble Little Horse tracks. The playlist was an endearing, genre-agnostic tour of scratchy indie, ranging from bedroom pop to screamo, that felt like it had some kind of stylistic or spiritual connection even with its extensive differences.

Last month, Hayden Pedigo announced his new album I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away. The Texas-born and Oklahoma City-based fingerstyle guitarist released the opener “Long Pond Lily,” and now he’s back with the title track, which is also the finale.

This Friday, No Windows release their new EP The Great Traitor. “Return” and “Easter Island” have served as enticing singles, and now they’re sharing a final preview with the gorgeous tune “Tricky.”

I have said before that Addison Rae’s “Diet Pepsi” is a great karaoke song, and Blondshell knows what I’m talking about. The singer-songwriter released her sophomore record If You Asked For A Picture last week, and now she’s covering “Diet Pepsi.”

Avant Gardner’s Brooklyn Mirage was supposed to reopen last week. The East Williamsburg music venue canceled last-minute as fans were getting ready to see Austin DJ Sara Landry because they failed to meet the final inspection deadline. The shows for that weekend didn’t happen, and today they announced the shows for this weekend aren’t happening, either.

Last night’s Met Gala featured Rihanna announcing her pregnancy and André 3000 wearing a whole piano. However, there was some drama when a video went viral, capturing rising singer and rapper Doechii shouting at her assistants while trying to hide from paparazzi. Now, she shared a statement.