Just a few days ago, the elusive yet prolific UK indie-soul collective SAULT dropped four new songs with very few additional details. Yesterday — keeping in line with their tendency to surprise-release albums — they went ahead and put a full LP called 10 on streaming services. (After first appearing on Spotify on Friday, before being taken down after a few hours, the album is now back on the platform.) It’s a fitting release for Easter weekend, coming from a band who lean heavily on gospel influences.

Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s co-headlining Grand National Tour kicked off in Minneapolis Saturday night. After appearing together during the Super Bowl Halftime Show earlier this year, the duo performed familiar favorites and debuted some songs from their respective recent albums GNX and Lana. Kendrick did tracks like “wacced out murals,” “hey now,” “dodger blue,” and “reincarnated” for the first time, while SZA did first-time performances of “30 For 30,” “Scorsese Baby Daddy,” “Kitchen,” and “BMF.”

After she played Coachella last weekend, Charli XCX went to an afterparty wearing a pageant sash that said “Miss Should Be Headliner.” Although she’ll headline various European festivals this summer, at Coachella Charli’s set time was a few hours before actual headliners Green Day. When a photo of that sash began circulating online, some people got pissed over the implication that Charli might think she’s a better artist than Green Day. Green Day are better at taking a joke than those people are. They proved as much at their Weekend 2 Coachella set, during which Billie Joe Armstrong happily took an audience member’s neon green Brat cap and wore it himself. (Incidentally, Green Day have a song titled “Brat” on their 1995 album Insomniac, but they didn’t play it last night.)

Kneecap have been vocal about their support for Palestine during the ongoing Israeli genocide, to the point where they’ve faced censorship several times. This included last Friday at Coachella when their “free Palestine” jumbotron messages and chants were omitted from American livestreams. Last night (Apr. 18), the Northern Irish rap trio received help from leftist social media personality Hasan Piker with advocating for Palestine during their second performance at the festival.

Earlier this week, the Who fired drummer Zak Starkey for “overplaying” at shows. Today, Pete Townshend announced that Starkey is back in the band after “some communication issues” were resolved.

At the first weekend of Coachella, A. G. Cook brought out Danny Brown during his set to rap on Rustie and Charli XCX tracks. On Friday (Apr. 18), the producer was joined by Kesha to perform his remix of her new T-Pain collab “Yippee-Ki-Yay.”

This week we talked to Molly Burch, Chime Oblivion, Rhiannon Giddens, Greet Death, aya, and quickly, quickly. Read those interviews and have a safe 4/20/Easter.

In his capacity as an actor, Keanu Reeves is many things. As John Wick, he’s a dog-loving assassin. As Neo, he’s a computer programmer turned messiah. As Johnny Utah, he’s an FBI agent turned bromancing surfer. His range is legendary. Throughout most of the ’90s, he also held down the role of aspiring rockstar as bassist for the band Dogstar, which originally broke up in 2002 but reunited in 2023. Now, his two worlds are colliding in an incredibly silly meta way — a perfect situation of art imitating life imitating art.

GoldLink has been relatively under the radar over the past several years. He released an album in 2021 called HARAM!, but it doesn’t seem to have had the same impact as 2017’s At What Cost or even 2019’s Diaspora. I can’t remember the last time cool new TV shows provided a boost for a song the way Insecure did for “Crew” featuring Brent Faiyaz and Shy Glizzy. [**Long Nostalgic Sigh**]

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.)