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.

A fire during a nightclub show in Kocani, North Macedonia killed 59 people early Sunday morning, the AP reports. Video footage shows sparklers from the stage hitting the ceiling, resulting a blaze that caused a portion of the one-story club’s roof to collapse.

Denis Leary doesn’t like R.E.M.’s “Shiny Happy People.” He proclaimed as much way back in 1992, the year after the Out Of Time single came out, when he did an MTV spot based on his standup routine poking fun at the state of rock ‘n’ roll. “R.E.M. ‘Shiiiiiny haaaaapy people’… hey, hey, hey, pull that bus over to the side of the Pretentiousness Turnpike…,” the comedian seethed in the promo. “I got two words for Michael Stipe: Steve. Tyler.” That sounds a bit harsh, but even Stipe has expressed some mixed feelings about the polarizing bubblegum hit, which featured the B-52s’ Kate Pierson, got R.E.M. invited to Sesame Street, and reached the Top 10 on Billboard’s Hot 100. The R.E.M. frontman told Space Ghost “I hate that song” back in 1995 and explained to The Quietus in 2011 that “it’s just a little bit embarrassing that it became as big a hit as it did.”

Rolling Loud California is currently underway. Headliner A$AP Rocky performed Saturday night, and he made quite a spectacle out of it, rapping from a helicopter with the words “Don’t Be Dumb” on it — the name of his long-delayed new album — before being lowered onto the stage. He did some new songs too.

You’ve no doubt heard about Gelo by now. He’s a Chino Hills, CA rapper whose real name is LiAngelo Ball. His brothers, Lonzo Ball and LaMelo Ball, are starting point guards in the NBA. “Ball” is their real last name. That’s incredible. Anyway, Gelo didn’t get quite as lucky in the hoops department, but that’s OK because his January debut single “Tweaker” went viral and landed him a massive record deal with Def Jam. In the weeks since, he’s teamed up with Lil Wayne and GloRilla. And over the weekend, he did his first-ever proper gig in front of a big-ass crowd at Rolling Loud California, where he also performed a couple of unreleased songs.

Shudder To Think, the great D.C. alt-rock band whose first few albums arrived via Dischord Records, have made a couple of brief reunions since they initially disbanded in 1998. One of those brief reunions just so happened to occur on Saturday, when they played two gigs at Los Angeles’ Permanent Records Roadhouse. It was their first show since 2013.