The young New York-based singer and producer April Grey makes jittery but confident hyperpop under the name underscores. She’s a prolific collaborator these days, appearing on recent tracks from Oklou, Yaeji, and Danny Brown, and she’s about to join Brown on tour. As for underscores’ own music, her last album was 2023’s Wallsocket, and she seems to have a new one in the works. Over the summer, underscores released a single with the very simple title “Music.” Today, she’s got a new one with the possibly even simpler title “Do It.”

Philly pedal-mashers Nothing basically deserve credit for kicking off the recent boom in heavy shoegaze, and they’re about to return with new music for the first time in a while. The band’s last non-collaborative album was The Great Dismal, which came out almost exactly five years ago. In the time since then, Nothing teamed up with Full Of Hell for the excellent collaborative LP When No Birds Sing, and they kicked off their series of shoegaze-centric Slide Away festivals. (They’ve got Hum and Chapterhouse reunions coming up at next year’s edition.) Now, Nothing are ready to return with a new LP called A Short History Of Decay, and that appetizing image that you see above is the cover art.

Esteemed emo veterans Jimmy Eat World were recently played Best Friends Forever in Las Vegas, where they were presumably greeted as heroes. Frontman Jim Adkins has been popping up some fun places, featuring on a brilliant new Jay Som track and guesting with fellow Arizona greats the Format at their reunion show. Today Adkins’ band is back with their first new song since the non-album single “Telepath” in 2023.

Lô Borges, the Brazilian singer-songwriter who recorded the 1972 album Clube da Esquina with Milton Nascimento, has passed away. According to Mix Vale, Borges died today in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where he was recently hospitalized for a medication-related infection.

Just a few days from now, Hannah Pruzinsky, the New York singer-songwriter who records as h. pruz, will release their new album Red sky at morning. Pruzinsky co-produced the LP with Florist/Told Slant member Felix Walworth, and they’re also publishing a companion-piece RPG book called Sailor’s Warning. We’ve posted the early tracks “Arrival” and “Krista,” and now a third Red sky at morning song has hit the internet.

Oneohtrix Point Never is back up in this shit. In a couple of weeks, Daniel Lopatin will take a break from his busy film-soundtrack and outside production schedule to release his own album Tranquilizer, inspired by his discovery of an archive of ’90s commercial-music sample CDs. Lopatin plans to release a lot of Tranquilizer tracks before the LP drops. He shared three songs when he made the announcement, and then he followed them up with “Measuring Ruins” last week. Today, Lopatin shares “Cherry Blue,” another piece that’ll appear on Tranquilizer.

No Pressure are an interesting band. Parker Cannon, frontman for big-deal pop-punkers the Story So Far, started No Pressure as a side project during COVID, and they’ve since become a big deal on the hardcore festival circuit despite not really being a hardcore band. Cannon’s bandmates mostly come from the hardcore world, and the group plays hardcore shows and records for hardcore labels, but they mostly specialize in a slightly amped-up version of the kind of pop-punk that Cannon makes with his other band. In making music just a little more raw and scrappy than what he does most of the time, Cannon has hit on something.

Brandi Carlile just released her new album Returning To Myself, which she co-produced with Aaron Dessner, Justin Vernon, and Andrew Watt. She was also the musical guest on a Miles Teller-hosted episode of SNL last night, her fourth time doing so; she most recently did a joint appearance with Elton John back in April, and also performed on SNL50: The Homecoming Concert a few weeks prior. This time around, Carlile performed Returning To Myself tracks “Human” and “Church & State.”

We named Fust a Best New Band back in 2023, and everyone else finally caught up this year with the release of their latest album Big Ugly. This morning, the Durham-based indie country-rock band brought some of those songs to CBS’ Saturday Sessions.

In a couple weeks, FKA twigs releases EUSEXUA Afterglow, which features a PinkPantheress collab called “Wild And Alone.” Last night the art-pop sensation joined the viral singer at her intimate Brooklyn Monarch set to give a live debut of that unreleased track.