New York’s Total Bummer is a brand new festival that’s dedicated to different generations of bleary guitar music, and it’s coming to the Knockdown Center in Queens on Memorial Day weekend. Dinosaur Jr. and the Jesus And Mary Chain, two of the greatest and most influential alt-rock bands of the ’80s and ’90s, will headline the two days, and a bunch of other great bands are also on the bill.

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On Friday, the LA-based singer-songwriter Morgan Nagler, of the bands Whispertown and Supermoon, will release her first solo album I’ve Got Nothing To Lose, And I’m Losing It. We’ve posted the early tracks “Grassoline” and “Heartbreak City,” and the album features contributions from a whole bunch of Nagler’s indie peers. Plenty of them helped out…

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Last September, Luxembourg’s Francis Of Delirium returned with the new single “Little Black Dress.” Turns out that’ll be included on the band’s upcoming album Run, Run Pure Beauty, which they’re announcing today with another single called “It’s A Beautiful Life.” Francis Of Delirium bandleader Jana Bahrich began writing the first seeds of Run, Run Pure…

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In 2024, Joe Biden’s Department Of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against live-entertainment giants Live Nation and Ticketmaster, intended to break up the monopoly of the two companies that merged in 2010. Now, the DOJ, currently operating under Donald Trump and Pam Bondi, has reportedly settled that lawsuit before the case could go to trail.

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Joseph Allen “Country Joe” McDonald has died. The singer/songwriter who fronted counterculture folk-rock icons Country Joe And The Fish passed away last night due to Parkinson’s disease, according to TMZ and Best Classic Bands. McDonald wrote the Berkeley, California psychedelic band’s most enduring songs, including the Vietnam War protest anthem “The Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” and “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine,” their sole Hot 100 hit. Country Joe And The Fish were a fixture of San Francisco’s Summer Of Love in 1967 and also played Woodstock. Over his career, McDonald released dozens of solo albums in addition to his output with the band, most recently 50 in 2017. He was 84.

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Japan’s Ichikawa City Zoo is the latest zoo to benefit from one of their animals having a viral moment online. This time the animal star is Punch, a baby snow monkey who started getting a lot of attention earlier this year due in part to his sad origin story: He was abandoned by his mother shortly after his birth last summer, and in her absence Punch got attached to a stuffed orangutan toy from IKEA. Other macaques at the zoo, oblivious to the outcast’s rising fame, have been documented bullying poor Punch. But in recent weeks, the folks at Ichikawa say Punch has been doing a much better job socializing, he’s clinging to his plushie less often, and he’s even able to go a full day without getting bullied. Now Punch is hanging out with real-deal celebrities.

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Last night Gorillaz were the musical guest on SNL, marking Damon Albarn’s debut on the show. Their new UK #1 album The Mountain just came out a couple of weeks ago, but they only played one song from it: “The Moon Cave,” during which they were joined by Asha Puthli, Black Thought, and Anoushka Shankar. They also played their 25-year-old debut single “Clint Eastwood” with Del The Funky Homosapien. They were introduced by host Ryan Gosling, wearing a prosthetic cyclops eye from a previous sketch. It was the actor’s fourth time hosting SNL, not fifth, which was apparently news to him.

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Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy’s R.E.M. covers show returned to New York City’s Brooklyn Steel tonight and Michael Stipe joined them on two songs he hadn’t performed in 18 years: “These Days” (from 1986’s Lifes Rich Pageant) and “The Great Beyond” (from 1999’s Man On The Moon soundtrack).

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Last year, Sudan Archives returned with her latest record The BPM, which we named one of the best albums of 2025. Now, Brittney Parks is back with a cover of Sade’s 1992 song “Cherish The Day” for SiriusXMU.

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Being an MGK fan is one long humiliation ritual. On Thursday (March 5), the rapper-turned-rocker performed at London’s O2 Arena and invited a bunch of audience members onstage during his song “bloody valentine.” An especially unfortunate one fell right through an opening in the uniquely (dangerously!) designed stage.

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