How do you stop someone from rising through the ceiling? This is the first line of Ribbon Skirt’s “Deadhorse,” the opening to their debut album Bite Down. It only gets more visceral and surreal from there: There’s someone kicking through window panes. There’s piss in a cup. There’s someone fucking up their whole life on a Wednesday. There’s a midnight meeting at a 7-Eleven. There’s black ice on the freeway. There’s someone crying on an airplane.

Meet thistle., the new signees to Venn Records. Made up of Cameron Godrey on guitar and lead vocals, Carey Judwyn Rushton on bass and vocals, and Lewis O’Grady on drums, the grungy emo band hails from Northampton, UK and is sharing the new song “it’s nice to see you, stranger” today, and it shreds.

Last year, the extremely fun Swedish psych-rock band Goat released their funky-ass self-titled album and collaborated with Ugandan-based rapper MC Yallah on the one-off single “Nimerudi.” Soon, Goat will release another collaborative single, this one recorded with some folks who are much closer to the band. The doomy hard rockers Graveyard come from Gothenburg, the same beautiful Swedish city that gave us Goat, a new Record Store Day single has two songs that both bands recorded together. Today, we get to hear one of them.

Here’s a cool new musical project that feels both out-there and extremely mundane. In 2022, the great Colorado experimentalist M. Sage teamed up with Lieven Martens under the name Sage Martens. Their album, Riding Fences, was an ambient classical exercise designed to explore the idea of “Western” music. They’re back this year with another conceptual offering that speaks to the deepest parts of my dad-soul — though, based on their artist’s statement, maybe I shouldn’t feel great about that.

We named the London art-punk group Man/Woman/Chainsaw a Band To Watch last fall upon the release of their most recent EP Eazy Peazy, produced by Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox. Today we continue to watch the band as they release their new single “Adam & Steve,” a buzzing rock song that combines piano, strings, dual lead vocals, and tons of melody into two-and-a-half minutes.

Here are just a few artists who’ve covered Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” since last summer: Kacey Musgraves, Blink-182, Ed Sheeran, the Dismemberment Plan, and as of last Saturday, Corey Taylor.

This weekend marked My Morning Jacket’s annual One Big Holiday, the three-night “music vacation” they host on Miramar Beach in Florida. The band played all three nights, with artists like Dinosaur Jr., S.G. Goodman, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and more rounding out the schedule. My Morning Jacket did quite a few covers with their various pals at the fest.

Local authorities in Mexico City shut down this weekend’s AXE Ceremonia festival on Saturday after two people were killed by a crane that collapsed. The incident occurred at around 5:30 p.m. local time during Meme Del Real’s set, when a gust of wind shook the metal structure that was carrying a decorative object. The two people killed were both photographers and received care on-site before being transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.

For the latest episode of CBS Saturday Morning, Brook Silva-Braga did some investigating to try to figure out why buying concert tickets has become such a pain. Among the people Silva-Braga interviewed was Andrew McMahon of the recently-reunited “emo rock band” Something Corporate, and the frontman broke down where the money from each ticket sold actually goes. He wasn’t able to disclose the venue, but he detailed a show where the gross potential money made was close to $200,000. After paying out venue and crew costs, the band made about $10 a ticket — which they split five ways.

Dave Allen, the founding bassist of English post-punk greats Gang Of Four, died last Saturday at 69. His former bandmate Hugo Burnham confirmed the news in a post today on Gang Of Four’s Instagram account, noting that Allen had been living with early-onset dementia for the last several years of his life.