We are truly blessed. Montreal’s Men I Trust are releasing two new albums this year, and the first one is out now. Equus Asinus is 14 tracks long and it’s got their meditative, dazed magic.

Lindstrøm is back. The Norwegian producer’s last album was 2023’s Everyone Else Is A Stranger, and today he’s announcing its follow-up, Sirius Syntoms. The lead single “Cirkl” is sort of out now.

As a performer, crowdsurfing is a gamble. Pop fans specifically are not great at holding up bodies — look at Matty Healy or girl in red’s attempts. On Sunday (March 16), no one caught the Dare when he jumped in the crowd at his Bristol gig.

Matty Matheson seems like a cool guy. He’s a longtime restauranteur who became a minor celebrity chef and then made it big when he was cast as Neil Fak in FX’s restaurant-set dramedy The Bear. Like a lot of characters on that show, Neil is loud, but turns out he can get even louder. He’s the vocalist of a new hardcore band called Pig Pen.

Last week news broke that Radiohead — who, as a group, have stayed mostly dormant over the past few years — created a new business entity, a limited liability partnership, called RHEUK25 LLP. Historically, a new LLP is a good sign that Radiohead are up to something, though it remains unannounced what that thing might be. One smart Stereogum commenter pointed out that the LLP’s name could be an acronym for “Radiohead Europe UK 25,” or shorthand for a 2025 EU/UK tour. Now we have some more telling evidence that a tour might really be in the works.

A jukebox musical featuring the music of James Taylor is currently in development. Fire & Rain, named after the singer-songwriter’s famous 1970 song, was announced today, and the story is by playwright and actor Tracy Letts.

Jesse Colin Young, frontman of Youngbloods known for singing the band’s counterculture hit “Get Together,” has died. The singer-songwriter passed away at his home in Aiken, South Carolina on Sunday (March 16). The news was revealed by Young’s widow and manager, Connie Young. No cause of death was given. He was 83.

Dua Lipa, who just made a guest appearance on Blackpink member JENNIE’s debut solo album Ruby, also just began a tour leg in Australia promoting her own 2024 album Radical Optimism. She switched things up tonight down under in Melbourne: She sang “Highway To Hell,” from Aussies AC/DC’s 1979 album of the same name. She didn’t try to turn it into a disco-pop song or anything like that — there are plenty of guitars, and her mic was turned on. Check it out below.

Lucy Dacus is releasing her new solo album Forever Is A Feeling next week, and in a new article in the New Yorker centered on the album, she confirms a longstanding rumor: She’s dating her boygenius bandmate Julien Baker. The two singer-songwriters have often been spotted together in the months since boygenius went on indefinite hiatus following last year’s big Grammy haul, and online detectives have often speculated about their romantic involvement. Now, journalist Amanda Petrusich’s Dacus profile makes it plain: “Dacus is now in a committed relationship with Baker.”

It appears that new music from Wet Leg is imminent. The uber-famous indie pop band broke months of social media silence Monday by sharing a group portrait — core duo Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers with backing members Henry Holmes, Josh Mobaraki, and Ellis Durand — posing with a guy in zombie makeup and a bunch of stuffed animals. The caption says, “we’re so back,” along with a link to the band’s website. So there you have it.