Life comes at you with velocity, girl. How has it already been 30 years since the breakup of Washington, DC indie-pop greats Velocity Girl? The group, which briefly reunited in 2002, has been back in action lately. In 2023, they played their first show in 21 years, then played some more. In 2024, they released a revamped version of their debut album. Now, they’ve got a new comp coming out.

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London-based producer Darren J. Cunningham has been making experimental dance music under the name Actress for about two decades now, and he’s nowhere near done. Last month, Actress released “Live By You,” a collaboration with the grime artist CASISDEAD. It’ll appear on Radical Frame, the new album that Actress announced today.

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It’s been a while since Matty Healy has released any music or even played any shows with his band the 1975. Being Funny In A Foreign Language, the group’s most recent album, is a few months away from it fourth birthday, and their most recent performance was their headlining set at Glastonbury, a little more than a year ago. In the right circumstances, though, Healy is absolutely down to perform with a 1975 tribute band.

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Josaleigh Pollett’s upcoming album If I Let It Quiet is shaping up to be a real treat. With the singles we’ve heard so far, the Salt Lake City singer-songwriter’s intimate yet infectious brand of indie evokes Indigo De Souza or Samia. Today, we get another taste with “Bed Of Quiet,” which is a dreamy whirlwind of a song.

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Noel Gallagher has made many enemies over the years. One is Phil Collins, who he called “the antichrist of music” in the ’90s. But the musicians will cross paths at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame this fall when Gallagher (with Oasis) and Phil Collins (for his solo work) will both be inducted, and Collins is looking forward to it.

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Lido Pimienta releases her new album Caribenya this Friday. So far the Colombian Canadian musician has shared the singles “Tóxica” and “Talento,” and today she’s back with “Marea.”

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In the past few days, Josh Homme has appeared on two extremely different new songs, Shania Twain’s “Faded Blue Jeans” and Mastodon’s “Snakes For Dinner.” Now, his band Queens Of The Stone Age return with a surprisingly gorgeous and non-heavy new single called “Easy Street,” which doesn’t sound anything like “Faded Blue Jeans” or “Snakes For Dinner.” Perhaps Homme has more range than we realized.

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What a year for Robert Pattinson! I thought he was sensational as a wormy little fuck in The Drama, and we’re a few days away from seeing him as Antinous in The Odyssey. Later in the year, he’ll pop up in Dune: Part Three, and he’ll also play Chris Hansen, alongside a debuting Phoebe Bridgers, in Primetime. Also! He and Denzel Washington are the leads of the Fernando Meirelles bank-robbery picture Here Comes The Flood. On top of all of that, Penelope Isles have a new song about how they loved him. That’s pretty good, too!

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If you’re looking to have a morbid Monday, you’ve come to the right place. “There is no cure/ Not for this curse/ When will it end/ Or will it get worse,” Joyeria deadpans on his alluringly eerie new Decay Decay Decay single “The Curse.”

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A few months ago, the great ’90s grunge-punk band L7 announced plans for a farewell tour. Today, singer and bassist Jennifer Finch has shared the news that she won’t be able to take part in the tour because she’s been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. The 59-year-old Finch has already been through multiple surgeries. Going forward, she’ll need ongoing medical care and professional in-home assistance, and her friends and family have launched a GoFundMe campaign to help pay for her treatment, as well as an extensive archive of her work and the completion of an in-progress creative project.

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