Back in March, Tortoise returned with “Oganesson,” their first new song in nine years. Today, the post-rock greats are announcing their long-awaited new album Touch, arriving this fall. The lead single “Layered Presence” is out now.

Usually, when a singer gets COVID, that singer’s upcoming shows are canceled altogether. That’s not what Blues Traveler did over the weekend when John Popper got COVID. The band are currently on tour with fellow ’90s alt-rock mainstays Spin Doctors and Gin Blossoms, and so the singers of those bands filled in for Popper at their shows in New Braunfels, Texas on Friday and Thackerville, Oklahoma on Saturday. It was interesting.

Rick Davies, singer and keyboardist for the hugely successful UK band Supertramp, has passed away. On their Facebook page, Supertramp revealed that Davies died on Saturday after a battle with multiple myeloma. Davies was 81. In their announcement, the band says, “Rick’s music and legacy continue to inspire many and bears testament to the fact that great songs never die, they live on.”

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.

A little over a month ago, Ozzy Osbourne died of a heart attack that came just two weeks after the Black Sabbath legend performed at his epic farewell concert in Birmingham. One of the many guest performers at that farewell concert was one of Osbourne’s old pal Steven Tyler. At the VMAs tonight, Tyler, his Aerosmith bandmate Joe Perry, Yungblud, and Extreme/Rihanna guitarist Nuno Bettencourt took the stage for a tribute medley.

Fresh off the release of her new album Man’s Best Friend — her second album in a row to debut at #1 — Sabrina Carpenter performed album highlight “Tears” live for the first time at the VMAs tonight. Evoking the retro, Rocky Horror Picture Show-inspired visuals of the song’s music video, the performance began with Carpenter crawling out of a manhole and ended with lots of water pouring onto the stage.

Last month, Brent Faiyaz announced his third studio album Icon on his Instagram Story. The Maryland R&B singer released “peter pan.” and “tony soprano.” officially, but he dropped “full moon. (fall in tokyo)” on his extremely aesthetically pleasing website, and that’s also how he shared the newest one, “if. (spring in new york).”

The saga continues: Charles Bissell of the Wrens says that Car Colors is, in fact, not done. The musician clarified this in the comments of our recent post about no more Car Colors music was coming, considering he’d told a fan, “I just no longer want to do this anymore.” But this is not the case.

Last night, Dua Lipa’s massive Radical Optimism World Tour finally kicked off its US leg. In Chicago, the pop star brought out the city’s own soul and funk legend Chaka Khan to perform her 1983 hit “Ain’t Nobody” together.

Bruce “Loose” Calderwood, the vocalist and bassist for San Francisco punk band Flipper, has died. The frontman reportedly passed from an apparent heart attack. He was 66.