Lately, theatrical prog overlord Maynard James Keenan has been busier with his self-aware trio Puscifer than with Tool or a Perfect Circle, his more-famous bands. Puscifer’s last album was Existential Reckoning, which came out in 2020. Since then, Puscifer have toured regularly with Primus and with the aforementioned Perfect Circle, and they’ve released the split EP Sessanta E.P.P.P. They’ve also shared “The Algorithm,” a one-off single for an American Psycho comic series. Now, Puscifer have a new album and a tour on the way.

The post-punk-ish Leipzig garage rockers Onyon put out their last album, 2023’s Last Days On Earth, on Chicago’s revered Trouble In Mind label. Now that Trouble In Mind has ceased operations, they’ll release their forthcoming Pale Horses through the Swish Swash and Mangel labels.

Before she released her debut single “Sue Me” back in May, Audrey Hobert was best known as the childhood best friend/frequent songwriting partner of Gracie Abrams. It only took a few months for Hobert to become an ascendant pop star in her own right: Her album Who’s The Clown? came out in August, and last night she promoted it with a musical guest appearance The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, appropriately singing “Sue Me” for her first-ever TV performance.

Mirah first made waves way back in 2000 with her debut You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This, an album that established the then-Olympia-based artist as a fixture of the mid-’90s Pacific Northwest indie rock scene. (Phil Elverum co-produced it, and K Records released it.) Now based in Brooklyn, Mirah got a lot more ears on her music in 2020, when New York’s Double Double Whammy issued a new expanded edition of You Think It’s Like This featuring covers by some of the artists she’s inspired — Flock Of Dimes and Hand Habits, to name just a couple. Today, Mirah has returned with her first new music in seven years, the single “Catch My Breath,” and it also features Flock Of Dimes’ Jenn Wasner and Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy.

A few weeks ago, Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson made a big announcement: They’re going back out on tour. It’s been more than a decade since Canadian prog legends Rush’s last tour. In 2020, longtime drummer and lyricist Neal Peart passed away at the age of 67. Now, Peart’s two surviving bandmates are getting ready to head out on their Fifty Something tour. The show is being framed as a tribute to Peart, and they’re doing it with the blessing of Peart’s family and with former Jeff Beck drummer Anika Nilles standing in. As initially announced, the Fifty Something tour was only scheduled to hit seven cities, with multiple dates in most of them. But all of the Rush’s US and Canadian dates sold out, so they’ve added a bunch more, in different cities.

Back in the day, Guns N’ Roses leader Axl Rose was the king of the onstage freakout. If something was happening that wasn’t to his liking, Rose would sometimes stop the entire show, to the point where multiple GN’R concerts broke out into riots. That hasn’t been the case in recent years. Instead, Guns N’ Roses have been functioning as an ultra-professional act on the global stadium circuit, even as they’ve continued to say vague things about supposedly-incoming new music. But at a Buenos Aires show on this past weekend, the world got to see a flash of the old Axl.

The 20-year-old New York native sombr is one of the biggest pop acts of 2025, for better or for worse. He’s had a couple of TikTok hits, but he also goes viral often for his live performances, which he imbues with antics that seem tailor-made for internet clicks. Lots of people love it; some do not.

A new Lily Allen album is dropping this Friday. It’s called West End Girl, and it’s her first since 2018’s No Shame.

Does Bruce Springsteen know he just got covered by one of Gen Z’s preeminent rock singer-songwriters? I’m sure the Boss will get a crash course in Cameron Winter soon if he hasn’t already, but this weekend, Springsteen was busy attending the 2025 Academy Museum Gala. He was honored with the inaugural Legacy Award, recognizing “an artist whose body of work has inspired generations of storytellers and deeply influenced our culture,” and he marked the occasion with a rare performance of “Streets Of Philadelphia.”

Sabrina Carpenter has spent a lot of time at Saturday Night Live in the past couple of years. She made her debut as musical guest in May of 2024, and then in February she appeared on SNL50: The Anniversary Special alongside Paul Simon. Last night Carpenter did double duty as musical guest and first-time host, 50 years to the day Simon hosted for the first time.