Do you like emotive, propulsive indie rock? If you don’t, why are you on Stereogum dot com? If you do, you may adore Irish Exit’s debut record Tantrums In Tandem, which the New York City band released yesterday.

Ian Watkins, the former singer of the Welsh scene metal band Lostprophets, has been murdered in prison after being attacked with a knife. He was serving a 29-year jail term for several horrific sexual offenses. He was killed this morning at West Yorkshire’s HMP Wakefield and was pronounced dead at the scene at the age of 48.

Yesterday, David Byrne and Hayley Williams teamed up for a track called “Open The Door” for The Twists soundtrack. In the evening, David Byrne surprised his New York City audience by inviting the Paramore leader with him onstage for some songs.

On Thursday (Oct. 9), John Carpenter and Alex G had shows in New York City, the former at the Knockdown Center and the latter at Kings Theatre. Coincidentally, they both ended up performing the Halloween theme.

Disturbed’s David Draiman has been a public supporter of Israel for years. Last year the frontman tweeted photos of himself signing Israel Defense Forces (IDF) missiles, and earlier this year he joined Sharon Osbourne in condemning Belfast rap trio Kneecap for their pro-Palestine advocacy. Now, a Disturbed show in Belgium’s capital has been canceled by the city due to safety concerns.

In March, Mineral announced their farewell show at the Best Friends Forever festival. The emo heroes took the stage last night in Las Vegas for a cathartic final performance.

Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl is doing numbers. Upon its arrival last Friday, the pop star’s 12th proper studio album quickly broke the one-day vinyl sales record, and broke the record previously held by Adele’s 25 for biggest listening week. Those numbers, however, included streaming. Now, The Life Of A Showgirl holds the record for the most single-week physical and digital sales in the modern era, Billboard reports. A lot of that might be to do with the 34 variants Swift is selling.

The two members of the duo Still Blank come from Hawaii and Manchester, and they started collaborating while on opposite sides of the planet. These days, they’re based in LA, and they’re getting ready to release the self-titled debut album that they recorded with producers Joel Pott and Flood. We’ve posted their singles “Ain’t Quite Right” and “Cut Slack.” Today, they share a nicely blurry piece of alt-pop called “Same Sun.” It sounds like something that you might’ve discovered in the second hour of 120 Minutes in 1996, and you can hear it below.

A few weeks ago, I took my daughter to see Lucy Dacus headline the All Things Go Festival at Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion. As someone who watched Dacus play a whole lot of small rooms in her earlier years, that was a trip. While touring behind her recent major label debut Forever Is A Feeling, Dacus has been indulging in a sincere stage gimmick: She’s been seeking out couples who want to get married and then officiating mass weddings while singing her love song “Best Guess.” Dacus did that with a big group of couples at All Things Go, and she did it again when she was the Jimmy Kimmel Live musical guest on Thursday.

John Lodge, bassist and vocalist for British rockers the Moody Blues, has passed away. According to The Guardian, Lodge’s family broke the news in a statement, writing that he died peacefully at home while listening to Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers. No cause of death has been reported. Lodge was 82.