Roy Thomas Baker, the legendary rock producer best-known for his long working relationship with Queen, has died. According to a press release from his publicist, Baker passed away on April 12. No cause of death has been reported. Baker was 78.

Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” is one of the best pop songs in recent memory. You know it, I know it, and Coldplay know it. It’s why the galactic-scale pop-rock band welcomed the Blackpink alum to join them a few hours ago at Goyang Stadium in Goyang-si, South Korea. After Chris Martin sat at the piano and played a bit of “APT.” solo, the full band kicked in and Rosé burst onto the stage. She did her parts, and Martin filled in for Mars (as much as Chris Martin could be expected to fill in for Bruno Mars — very different flavors of cheese there). When the song was over, they ran it back a second time.

“You don’t know me, bitch.” Near the end of her new album Bloodless, on a minimal ballad called “Proof,” Samia Finnerty unfurls those words as defiantly as one can when singing in a trembling whisper. In the most intimate moment on an album full of indie-rock confessionals, this is her message, delivered firmly even at a volume that suggests she’s trying not to wake anybody up. It’s addressed to a fickle flirt, a guy who loves her “like a child’s toy or cigarette,” but it’s possible to hear that quiet diss as a takedown of listeners who think they’ve got Samia pegged.

Neggy Gemmy (fka Negative Gemini) has announced her new album She Comes From Nowhere, the follow-up to 2023’s CBD Reiki Moonbeam. The LA electronic artist shared the alluring lead single “Mysterious Girl” on Friday (Apr. 18).

Last week, Gang Of Four kicked off their farewell tour. On Sunday (Apr. 20), the band brought out Belly’s Tanya Donelly and Mission Of Burma’s Roger Miller for some songs in Boston.

Los Angeles shoegazers Luster have been putting out records since 2020, and they’ve earned the admiration of their fuzz-guitar contemporaries. Last year, Luster’s one-off single “Like I Do” caught our attention and landed on our best-songs-of-the-week list. Today, Luster follow that single with “Sunday,” another blearily romantic rush of bittersweet vocals and gigantic, crushing guitar sounds.

David Murray turned 70 in February. That feels wrong somehow, not because I’m unaware that time only moves in one direction but because Murray doesn’t fit the mold of an elder statesman. Since his arrival in New York in the mid-’70s, he’s been on a unique creative path, releasing a torrent of material — his Discogs page lists close to 300 credits — in contexts ranging from solo recitals to big bands to collaborations with musicians from all corners of the globe. He never seems to stop moving, and he’s never stayed on a single path for any length of time. Typically, when a jazz musician gets this far into their career, they settle down. Even fire-breathing radicals get predictable. But Murray is still taking chances, as his new album Birdly Serenade proves.

During his Sunday set at Coachella’s first weekend, Zedd brought out John Mayer, Maren Morris, Elley Duhé, Julia Michaels, Bea Miller, and the olllam. His appearance Sunday at the fest’s second weekend featured a mostly different slate of guest performers. Delightfully, one of them was Incubus.

Last month, ICE agents abducted Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from his home in New York City and took him to an immigration detention center in Louisiana, where he’s still being held today. Born to Palestinian parents in a refugee camp in Syria and now a US green card holder, Khalil had a key role in pro-Palestine protests on campus. While he hasn’t been hit with any criminal charges, he’s currently facing deportation and revocation of his student visa, with the Trump administration making the very hypocritical argument that his activism puts US foreign policy at risk.

In February the UK crooner Sam Fender released his new album People Watching. He recorded the album with Adam Granduciel, frontman of the War On Drugs, who are also opening for some of Fender’s upcoming UK tour dates. But first, Fender played Coachella yesterday. He brought out Granduciel to do the album’s title track, as well as a few others.