Neggy Gemmy (fka Negative Gemini) has announced her new album She Comes From Nowhere, the follow-up to 2023’s CBD Reiki Moonbeam. The LA electronic artist shared the alluring lead single “Mysterious Girl” on Friday (Apr. 18).

Last week, Gang Of Four kicked off their farewell tour. On Sunday (Apr. 20), the band brought out Belly’s Tanya Donelly and Mission Of Burma’s Roger Miller for some songs in Boston.

Los Angeles shoegazers Luster have been putting out records since 2020, and they’ve earned the admiration of their fuzz-guitar contemporaries. Last year, Luster’s one-off single “Like I Do” caught our attention and landed on our best-songs-of-the-week list. Today, Luster follow that single with “Sunday,” another blearily romantic rush of bittersweet vocals and gigantic, crushing guitar sounds.

David Murray turned 70 in February. That feels wrong somehow, not because I’m unaware that time only moves in one direction but because Murray doesn’t fit the mold of an elder statesman. Since his arrival in New York in the mid-’70s, he’s been on a unique creative path, releasing a torrent of material — his Discogs page lists close to 300 credits — in contexts ranging from solo recitals to big bands to collaborations with musicians from all corners of the globe. He never seems to stop moving, and he’s never stayed on a single path for any length of time. Typically, when a jazz musician gets this far into their career, they settle down. Even fire-breathing radicals get predictable. But Murray is still taking chances, as his new album Birdly Serenade proves.

During his Sunday set at Coachella’s first weekend, Zedd brought out John Mayer, Maren Morris, Elley Duhé, Julia Michaels, Bea Miller, and the olllam. His appearance Sunday at the fest’s second weekend featured a mostly different slate of guest performers. Delightfully, one of them was Incubus.

Last month, ICE agents abducted Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from his home in New York City and took him to an immigration detention center in Louisiana, where he’s still being held today. Born to Palestinian parents in a refugee camp in Syria and now a US green card holder, Khalil had a key role in pro-Palestine protests on campus. While he hasn’t been hit with any criminal charges, he’s currently facing deportation and revocation of his student visa, with the Trump administration making the very hypocritical argument that his activism puts US foreign policy at risk.

In February the UK crooner Sam Fender released his new album People Watching. He recorded the album with Adam Granduciel, frontman of the War On Drugs, who are also opening for some of Fender’s upcoming UK tour dates. But first, Fender played Coachella yesterday. He brought out Granduciel to do the album’s title track, as well as a few others.

Just a few days ago, the elusive yet prolific UK indie-soul collective SAULT dropped four new songs with very few additional details. Yesterday — keeping in line with their tendency to surprise-release albums — they went ahead and put a full LP called 10 on streaming services. (After first appearing on Spotify on Friday, before being taken down after a few hours, the album is now back on the platform.) It’s a fitting release for Easter weekend, coming from a band who lean heavily on gospel influences.

Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s co-headlining Grand National Tour kicked off in Minneapolis Saturday night. After appearing together during the Super Bowl Halftime Show earlier this year, the duo performed familiar favorites and debuted some songs from their respective recent albums GNX and Lana. Kendrick did tracks like “wacced out murals,” “hey now,” “dodger blue,” and “reincarnated” for the first time, while SZA did first-time performances of “30 For 30,” “Scorsese Baby Daddy,” “Kitchen,” and “BMF.”

After she played Coachella last weekend, Charli XCX went to an afterparty wearing a pageant sash that said “Miss Should Be Headliner.” Although she’ll headline various European festivals this summer, at Coachella Charli’s set time was a few hours before actual headliners Green Day. When a photo of that sash began circulating online, some people got pissed over the implication that Charli might think she’s a better artist than Green Day. Green Day are better at taking a joke than those people are. They proved as much at their Weekend 2 Coachella set, during which Billie Joe Armstrong happily took an audience member’s neon green Brat cap and wore it himself. (Incidentally, Green Day have a song titled “Brat” on their 1995 album Insomniac, but they didn’t play it last night.)