Every September, in the leafy Philadelphia hinterlands, a 1770s historic site morphs into a surreal dance gathering. Picnic blankets brush against Fort Mifflin’s brick walls as airplanes descend above. Bombproof shelters evolve into natural wine caves. Ravers swarm muddy parade grounds, initially intended for military drills. Grassy patches on the Delaware River are decorated with hanging strobes and a tent that resembles a polyester Pringle. Lasers by Klip Collective flicker on algae in the Liquid Moat. In service of the goofy motto Peace Love Unity Respect Transcendence (PLURT), Making Time ∞ attracts an expanding, refreshingly curious audience.

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Change can be so scary — an unknown, a fantasized result with no guarantee. But it also can be immensely rewarding. On her new single “Are You Willing To Change?,” Alabama-raised, Brooklyn-based artist A.G. Sully makes change sound like a beautiful inevitable.

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In July, Band To Watch Mary In The Junkyard released their stunning debut album Role Model Hermit. Today, they’re back with another new single “Jane,” that continues the group’s streak of stilling rock ballads.

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Philly post-metal band Bruise Bath released a self-titled album this year (not their first eponymous LP). They’re not finished. The group returns today with a burly, bass-forward protest song called “Non-Consensual Intervention.” The track begins with a sampled spoken word segment about how maybe the US should be invaded someday so we can know what it’s like, then moves on to a gnarly riff-driven churn on the same subject. Eventually the band clears out the lane for some harrowing guttural wails — “How am I supposed to live?!” — before the discordant lo-fi horrors resume. This one does sound like bathing in bruises, now that you mention it. Listen below.

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When the Strokes released “Bad Decisions,” the second single from their 2020 album The New Abnormal, fans noticed the resemblance between that song and Modern English’s 1982 hit “I Melt With You.” Today, the new wave veterans playfully acknowledged it in a new video captioned “We have beef with the Strokes.”

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Early this year J McClendon, who formerly headed up the excellent, hyper-online emo band Glass Beach, released It’s Fine To Dream, her debut album under a new moniker, You Are An Angel. This past weekend, McClendon released two more songs left over from the It’s Fine To Dream sessions. They’re called “Candyglass” and “Baroque,” and had this to say about them:

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Sen Morimoto announced their new album Time Is On Your Side last month. The lead single “Overthinker” was a tranquil, introspective number, and now they’re back with “Chewing Gum,” another quietly beautiful tune.

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Earlier this month, Pet Fox announced their new album Balance and shared the energetic title track. Now, they’re sharing the somber, confessional second single “Avoidant.”

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Chad Gilbert, founding guitarist for the punk band New Found Glory, has died. “On the morning of September 20th, Chad Everett Gilbert passed away peacefully in his sleep,” the band announced in a statement today. “He left this world surrounded by friends and family and took his final breaths with his wife and mother by his side, just as he wished.” Gilbert revealed six months ago he had been diagnosed with brain cancer. He was 45.

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Say Now is a British pop group composed of Amelia Onuorah, Maddie Haynes, and Yssy Salvanera. They’ve been releasing crystalline pop since 2023, and on Friday, they returned with their new single, “Met my match,” executive produced by PinkPantheress. Maestro The Baker, Oscar Scheller, and Count Baldor also worked on the track.

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