Danger Mouse and Black Thought last collaborated for the 2022 album Cheat Codes. The longtime friends are joining forces again today for a new track called “Up” with British singer Rag’n’Bone Man.

It’s been a few years since Weird Nightmare last released his eponymous debut on Sub Pop. Now, Alex Edkins is sharing “Forever Elsewhere,” his first new music since his band METZ announced an indefinite hiatus.

This guy Sessa is bringing Tropicália back. The São Paulo-based singer-songwriter born Sergio Sayeg announced his new album Pequena Vertigem de Amor last month with the release of lead single “Vale A Pena.” This week he’s followed it up with another advance track.

Chicago-born R&B singer Ravyn Lenae recently graduated from cult stardom to actual stardom, as her 2024 single “Love Me Not” caught fire on TikTok, climbing as high as #5 on the Hot 100. (It’s #9 this week, at least until all the Taylor Swift numbers come in.) These days, Lenae is a big enough deal to get Donald Glover to leave his house on a Monday night.

Last month, country-rock superstar Zach Bryan played the largest ticketed concert in US history — more than 112,000 fans crammed into Michigan Stadium. Bryan, never known as a particularly political artist, is among the most popular musicians in the country right now, and he has irked the Department of Homeland Security by singing anti-ICE lyrics on a song that hasn’t even been released yet.

Tame Impala’s new album Deadbeat arrives next week, and Kevin Parker has scored his first Billboard Hot 100 hit with the latest single “Dracula.” Today, Fcukers were announced as openers for his North American tour this fall.

Next month, Queens-based songwriter Hannah Pruzinsky aka h. pruz is releasing a new album Red sky at morning, the follow-up to their 2024 debut album No Glory. Today they’ve shared the new single “Krista,” which comes with a video made from a homemade childhood YouTube horror series Pruzinsky made with their cousin Molly Schenkenberger.

“In 2025, Bon Iver announced his retirement, and the search began for his replacement.” That’s the setup, anyway. Bon Iver leader Justin Vernon is not retiring, as far as anyone knows, and you can’t exactly replace a solo artist in his own band. But that’s the conceit of director Jos Diaz Contreras’ cameo-jammed video for “Day One,” a song from Bon Iver’s recent album SABLE, fABLE.

After nearly two hours of chatting, Izzy Hagerup throws her hands up in the air and admits, “I’m just really scared of music right now.” Her eyes widen below her short-trimmed brown bangs. A smile tugs at her lips, and she shifts in her seat, as if trying to shake off creeping anxiety. The Western Massachusetts musician, who transplanted to LA a few months ago, makes music under the moniker Prewn with rickety, goosebump-inducing cello-rock. When we talk via Zoom, it’s a week away from last Friday’s release of System, the vehement follow-up to her 2023 debut Through The Window.

Last night, ’90s emo pioneers Knapsack reunited for a show at Soda Bar in San Diego, CA. The one-off show was announced this past June and precedes the band’s appearance at Best Friends Festival later this week. No other shows have been announced, and the band says on social media that they don’t have any plans booked.