Aw shit, Olivia Rodrigo went and started her own festival! Rodrigo just released her excellent third album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, and now she’s announced plans for Daisy Chain Fields, a single-day fest with a cross-generational all-female lineup that includes a ton of rock legends and exciting newcomers.
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Look who’s back! Carly Rae Jepsen, queen of critically acclaimed cult-favorite pop stars, has recently been teasing a return, and it’s about time. Jepsen never stops touring, but she hasn’t dropped a new album since 2022’s The Loneliest Time and its 2023 companion piece The Loveliest Time. She’s back in a few months with a big new double album called Day And Night.
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Clive Davis, one of the most successful and iconic executives in the history of the record business, has passed away. Over decades in the business, Davis pushed the careers of stars like Barry Manilow, Whitney Houston, and Alicia Keys, as well as signing dozens of others. The New York Times reports that Davis passed away at home in Manhattan today, after a recent hospitalization for respiratory problems. Davis was 94.
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Last week the Atlantic posted an upsetting report about datasets of music that are being used to train AI. If they weren’t already aware, major artists from Bad Bunny to Nirvana are part of it. The Atlantic identified over 21 million recordings across four datasets. I even did a quick search on my favorite artists such as Squirrel Flower and the Cramps, and both of their music included. One of the many artists who’s speaking out after searching their name is SZA.
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Last night, as Connecticut rock band Goose played the second of two consecutive shows at Madison Square Garden, a 51-year-old man fell to his death. He reportedly fell from the upper 300 level to the 100 level, where concertgoers were evacuated from their seats and the area was roped off. The man was transported to Bellevue Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
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You have to be really bored to provoke Taylor Swift fans. It’s probably pretty boring to be in Metallica in 2026. No shade. But lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, maybe in an attempt to distract from the Geese psyop allegations, recently wore a T-shirt onstage that said “Taylor Swift Is a CIA Psyop.” Now, Swifties are attacking.
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Hayley Williams’ first solo tour is going just dandy. The Paramore leader has brought out Josh Scogin, Jason Isbell, Rachel Brown, Jenny Lewis, and more, and last night in London she was joined by Romy for a Prefab Sprout cover.
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They’re so loose because they’re so tight. When Geese take the stage, they don’t re-create their recordings. It barely even feels like they’re performing songs with a defined structure — more like summoning a familiar sequence of chords and lyrics from the ether, whipping around riffs and fills like a marionette’s appendages. It’s the kind of free-flowing organized chaos that can only come from a hard-won mind-meld, from years spent coming of age together, instruments in hand. Underneath everything else, Geese have that going for them: They play like a single virtuosic organism.
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Unfortunately, Ken Carson failed to impress us with last year’s More Chaos, but the Opium artist has a chance to redeem himself with Xperiment, his new album he’s announcing today. And we don’t have to wait too long; it arrives in just two weeks.
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Justin Cary, bassist for the Texan alt-pop band Sixpence None The Richer, has passed away. Cary suffered a stroke last week. Earlier this week, bandmate Leigh Nash shared the news on Instagram, as well as a link to a GoFundMe page to raise money for Cary and his wife Linda. Yesterday, Linda announced that Cary had passed away peacefully that morning. Cary was 50.
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