I know what you’re thinking. I’m thinking it too. The project is called Just Penelope, but that’s not just Penelope in the photo above. In fact, not one of them is Penelope. Do you feel ripped off?

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Last year, caroline’s caroline 2 was our Album Of The Week. The British post-rock collective’s Magdalena Mclean has been releasing lovely music through her great side project Curbside Lambsear, and now Jasper Llewellyn is sharing solo music. His meditative, seven-minute debut single “For The Teacher” is out today via Rough Trade.

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Ziemba’s coming back with a bang. The multi-disciplinary artist releases her long-awaited new album The Braid this fall, and so far she’s shared the sprawling singles “The Perfect Rose” and “The Pleasure Seekers.” Today’s “We Implode” is a chirpy, inspiring triumph.

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THAO is getting ready to release her comeback album Show Me. So far she’s shared “Fossils” and “Sick Of The Times” featuring Tune-Yards and the Linda Lindas. Now she’s releasing the Neko Case collab “Catch As Catch Can.”

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In June, Father Dionysios Tabakis announced he was getting ready to play his first-ever live set at Philadelphia’s Making Time fest, which goes down next month. However, the viral Greek Orthodox priest behind the acclaimed drone metal LP Paradise Metal faced backlash after old blog posts of his resurfaced. Two posts from 2024 referred to gay people as “Sodomites” and gay marriage as a “sodomitic monstrosity.” It was also discovered that in 2013 he performed a sanctification at the offices of Golden Dawn, a Greek neo-Nazi organization. He addressed the criticism in a new statement.

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In 2019, the Spook School broke up. Now, the Scottish indie-pop band is reuniting to release a new record titled Like A Heartbeat. The lead single “Falling” is out today.

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“I been gettin’ up each morning with the hair of the downward dog.” That fantastic lyric belongs to “Marlboro Vinyasa,” the latest single from Willi Carlisle’s Tyler Childers-produced double album The Universal Bubba. Unlike prior single “Mason Jar At The Center Of The World,” which was the kind of a traditional reel you could squaredance to, this song is a barroom country-rocker. The press release repeatedly uses the word “smoky,” which would be appropriate even if a cigarette brand wasn’t name-checked in the title.

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Trumpeter Will Miller has been a fixture of Chicago’s music scene for years, appearing on key 2010s releases from artists like Chance The Rapper, Whitney, and Twin Peaks and branching out beyond the Windy City for work with heavy hitters like SZA and Mavis Staples. And for many years now, he’s been leading Resavoir, an oft-morphing Chicago jazz ensemble that used to record for the city’s esteemed International Anthem label.

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Dolly Parton, one of the greatest singers and songwriters in the history of American popular entertainment, has died. Parton’s family announced her passing in a video statement from her nephew Byran Seaver that was posted on Parton’s social media channels this afternoon. According to a statement from her representatives, Parton passed away “peacefully” in Nashville today. No cause of death has been reported.

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Grunge overlords Soundgarden have only played live a few times since the sudden, tragic 2017 death of frontman Chris Cornell, and they’ve had some legal issues with Cornell’s widow Vicky in the years since. But the band and Vicky Cornell reconciled in 2023, and they performed at their Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction last year. Next month, Soundgarden’s surviving members will play another extremely high-profile gig when they serve as the halftime show performers at the NFL’s season opener.

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