Last year, Billy Jones, the co-founder and owner of the Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right, passed away from glioblastoma at the age of 45. Jones booked and promoted live music in New York for many years, before and after the establishment of Baby’s, and he did a lot to boost the city’s indie rock scene. Porches leader Aaron Maine is one of the many people who was close to Jones, and he shared a new tribute song called “Angel” on Sunday, exactly one year after Jones’ passing.

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Pitfest commenced earlier this week, with the hardcore, punk, and metal festival slated for June 4 to June 6 in Emmen, Netherlands. Yesterday, the event was truncated after a fan died during Gorilla Biscuits’ set.

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In 2024, Dave Matthews showed up for the Free Palestine movement and protested Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to US Congress, saying in an interview, “It’s a disgusting show of support for someone who doesn’t deserve our support. I’m ashamed that my tax dollars are going to the brutalizing of an entire people.” On Friday (June 5), he performed in Raleigh and read a prepared speech clarifying his views.

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The famously irascible Morgan Wallen has been making headlines for his low temper as of late. Last week, he went viral for flipping a piano in Denver, though it was technically a piano shell containing a Nord keyboard. On Friday (June 5), the controversial country star played Pittsburgh and went viral for snatching a phone from a security guard’s hands and throwing it across the stage.

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Underscores has been making waves this year, releasing the much-hyped album U and starting raves from the back of a U-Haul. Last night the up-and-coming hyperpop star called out the Houston venue Meow Wolf, saying they were limiting her production and being misogynistic.

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Though Ariana Grande just launched her new era with the petal lead single “hate that i made you love me,” she never brought her 2024 album eternal sunshine to stages. It’s been six and a half years since her last tour, during which Wicked took up most of her schedule. Last night in Oakland she made up for lost time with lots of live debuts.

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Last night was the second and final night of Music America: The Songs that Shaped Us, a two-day concert celebration of 250 years of American music held at the OceanFirst Bank Center in Monmouth, New Jersey. The celebration spanned centuries of American music, beginning with tributes to artists like Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and Woody Guthrie before moving on to more contemporary icons such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Dion DiMucci, and Public Enemy.

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Last night the Cure headlined Primavera Sound 2026 at Barcelona’s Parc Del Forum. It was the band’s first performance since their intimate November 2024 show at London’s Troxy celebrating the release of Songs Of A Lost World. That album, one of the best of that year, was the Cure’s first UK #1 in 32 years and earned them their first Grammys. On the Estrella Damm Stage, the Cure played only two tracks from SOALW, though — the rest of the setlist spanned nearly five decades of classics, including cuts they hadn’t performed in several years.

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Yesterday, at the Summer Game Fest in LA, SEGA of America and RGG Studio revealed new additions to their forthcoming action-adventure game Stranger Than Heaven, including rap legend Tupac Shakur. At the event, RGG Studio Head Masayoshi Yokoyama announced the game’s official release date: January 15, 2027.

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Don’t let the fact that John Dwyer is always releasing new music trick you into taking him for granted. In the first half of this year, the California psychedelic garage-punk king has already launched the new side project Heathen Axe, released a new album under his solo guise Damaged Bug, and dropped a surprise EP from his best-known band, Osees. And now we get a whole new Osees LP too.

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