Since their latest album Laundromat, Pickle Darling has shared covers of Aimee Mann, Death Cab For Cutie, and more. Today, the New Zealand indie artist is back with a thoughtful new tune called “Massive Everything.”

Last month Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements film hit theaters, serving as a biopic for the slacker rock band. Tonight the group’s Mark Ibold threw out the first pitch at the Cincinnati Reds game to his bandmate Bob Nastanovich.

In February, Sophie Payten announced her new Gordi album Like Plasticine. So far we’ve heard “Alien Cowboy,” “Peripheral Lover,” and “Cutting Room Floor,” and now the Australian indie musician is back with the Anaïs Mitchell collab “PVC Divide.”

A couple of weeks ago, Billy Joel canceled all of his concerts due to his recent normal pressure hydrocephalus diagnosis. The news of the brain condition worried fans, but the legendary musician shared a reassuring message today via Howard Stern.

Seether were in fact seething at their show in Catoosa, OK on Thursday (May 29). The South African rock band — whom we have never covered, though they’ve been around since 1999 and recently scored their 10th Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay #1 — turned their hit “Remedy” into a diss track against security when they removed the frontman’s 7-year-old daughter from the side stage.

No bad dream fucker’s gonna boss Momma around. The beloved alt-rock hook-slingers are riding high off the release of their recent Welcome To My Blue Sky, one of 2025’s very best albums so far. As the promo campaign rolls on, they’ve covered an Elliott Smith classic for Amazon Music.

Marissa Nadler has announced a new self-produced album called New Radiations to follow the 2022 EP The Wrath Of The Clouds. The goth-folk singer-songwriter is sharing a preview today with the haunting title track.

There are people who make a fine living by closely monitoring this nation’s youth sports leagues in hopes of finding players to replenish America’s college and professional teams. I wonder if Matador Records has a similar program, but for potential next-generation indie rock stars? The tastemaking institution established its rep by plucking Pavement, Guided by Voices, and Liz Phair from the tape-trading micro-release deep underground, and in the past decade or so it’s shown a keen interest in what the young people are getting up to, ushering young acts like Snail Mail, Car Seat Headrest, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus into the big leagues after they built up varying degrees of buzz. More recently, the “cool parents and after-school music programs to Matador Records” pipeline remained remarkably strong with the young Chicago trio Horsegirl, and now it’s given us the young Chicago trio Lifeguard, an outstanding coup by Matador’s perhaps apocryphal youth development division. Raises all around.

Bauhaus’ 2022 reunion was sadly and suddenly cut short when frontman Peter Murphy entered a rehabilitation facility. Things were looking up this year, though, as Murphy recently released his solo album Silver Shade in May and had announced a tour in support of it. Now, unfortunately, that tour isn’t happening either.

I tend to associate My Hair Is A Rat’s Nest, the one-person screamo operation out of Albuquerque with the extremely evocative name, with long songs. But “Throes,” our first taste of a new EP dropping next week, is short — as in 77 seconds total. The track makes great use of that minute and change, though, conjuring a triumphant bashed-out post-hardcore vibe before leveling out into low-key drama that reminds me of the more restrained moments on At The Drive-In’s Relationship Of Command. It’s cool shit, so check it out: