The spaced-out guitar virtuoso Steve Gunn makes a whole lot of music. Just last month, Gunn released the instrumental album Music For Writers, and he’s also made a lot of records with collaborators like David Moore, John Truscinski, and the avant-garde supergroup Beings. But now Gunn is back in singer-songwriter mode, and he’s ready to announce his first proper non-side-project solo LP since 2021’s Other You.

It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from the playfully skronky New York indie rockers Ava Luna. The band’s last album was Moon 2, which came out back in 2018. Ava Luna followed that one with their Pigments EP in 2019, and then that was it for six years. The band went through some changes. Kyle, formerly known as Becca Kauffman, left the group in 2019 and made solo music as Jennifer Vanilla. Singer and multi-instrumentalist Carlos Hernandez made his own solo music as Carlos Truly, and Hernandez and Julian Fader took part in the side project Sweet Dreams Nadine. Also, there was a pandemic and what have you. But now, Ava Luna are finally coming back with a new album.

Ronnie Radke cannot take the L. The notorious Falling In Reverse frontman tried to sue Anthony Fantano for the music YouTuber’s video about him called “This Guy Sucks.” First, Radke sued the wrong Anthony Fantano. Then, he sued the correct one, and still lost. He was ordered to pay Fantano $40,700 in defense attorney fees, and on Friday (Sept. 29) he objected to the amount.

Tonight St. Vincent performed a show at BBC Proms, the British broadcaster’s classical music concert series. At the Royal Albert Hall in London, Annie Clark played a bunch of deep cuts for the special occasion.

It’s been just about a year since Origami Angel hit us with the phenomenal Feeling Not Found. Today the hard-rocking yet maniacally catchy emo duo is back with their contribution to Cosmic Debris Vol. 2, a new compilation celebrating 10 years of the great Counter Intuitive Records.

David Byrne’s first solo album in seven years Who Is The Sky? is out this Friday, which recently occasioned a great chat with Stereogum’s buildings and food correspondent Rachel Brown. Today, as one last advance preview of the album, Byrne has shared a new collab with Hayley Williams, who also recently appeared in Stereogum videos with Brown. It’s all connected, people!

Young Thug hasn’t released much music since he was finally freed from jail after his years-long RICO trial ended late last year, and his long-teased album Uy Scuti still hasn’t come out. Right now, Thug is at the center of the rap conversation not for his music but for a series of leaked audio snippets, which are supposedly recordings of Thug’s jailhouse interrogation and his phone calls from jail. In one of those leaks, Thug seemingly claims that he bought a #1 album chart spot for his estranged protege Gunna. In another, he seems to try to do the same thing for himself.

Lady Gaga’s recent macabre album Mayhem was her successful funkified pop return, featuring zombies, monsters, and plenty of things that go bump in the night. It’s fitting then that, while she celebrates this new spooky chapter, she’s got a role in the Netflix series Wednesday, guest starring as legendary Nevermore teacher Rosaline Rotwood. Today, the entire season is available to stream, finally giving us a look at Gaga’s character. Mother monster has also released a new single for the show called “The Dead Dance,” a perfect gift to mentally and emotionally prepare for the rest of the season.

In July, the world lost Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne. Since the rock icon’s passing, many have paid tribute to him — including Geordie Greep, Ghost, and even Drake. Just last week System Of A Down, Metallica, Blues Traveler, Yungblud, the Go-Go’s & Jack Black, and Mastodon were among the bands covering Osbourne in concert. Despite the outpouring of admiration, there’s still a handful of contrarians who are eager to speak about their dislike for the heavy metal pioneers. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has made a bold statement about Osbourne, and Stephen King has randomly made clear his dislike of Black Sabbath.

Madchester, the glorious wave of rave-friendly rock bands that emerged from Manchester, England in the late ’80s and early ’90s, yielded heavily canonized artists like the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays. But there were lots of acts in that scene that have not been so thoroughly entrenched in music history. One such act was Joanna, a quartet whose sole album is about to get a spotlight moment three and a half decades later.