Artist To Watch Mei Simones is embracing the momentum. The genre-hopping musician released her debut album Animaru this past May, which was then followed by the one-off single “Itsumo.” Today, she’s back with two more singles “Kurayami” and “Get Used To It.”

Jeff Tweedy released his solo triple album Twilight Override last month, and last night he stopped by The Late Show to perform a couple of tracks as the musical guest. The Wilco frontman performed album highlights “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter” and “Enough” with his sons Spencer and Sammy Tweedy backing him on drums and vocals, respectively.

You know Alex Ebert. You know him even if you don’t know that you know him. Ebert is best-known to most of us as Edward Sharpe, and his band Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes were the progenitors of the stomp-clap folk movement that you know and love. Earlier this year, there was a whole lot of online chatter about whether their 2010 hit “Home” is the “worst song ever made.” In the wake of all that, our own Chris DeVille had a long, fascinating conversation with Ebert, which also touched on his time in the pre-Edward Sharpe dance-punk band Ima Robot. Now, a lost Ima Robot album is about to get an official release.

Lizzo has another lawsuit on her hands, and it somehow relates to the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle controversy.

As bush doof enthusiasts already know, Tame Impala just released the generally fairly underwhelming album Deadbeat last week. Kevin Parker’s efforts to promote the record have revolved around DJ gigs more than actual live performances. But Tame Impala have an arena tour coming up, and so Parker has to remind everyone that he can still put on a show. Last week, Tame Impala performed the singles “Loser” and “Dracula” for the first time at their Tiny Desk Concert. Now, they’ve taken part in A24’s brand-new live performance series Sound Check At Cherry Lane Theatre, and they’ve taken the opportunity to play the album track “My Old Ways” live for the first time.

During the Irish War Of Independence in 1920, IRA fighters ambushed British soldiers in Cork, wounding some of them and killing one. In response, British forces burned and looted hundreds of homes and dozens of businesses, as well as City Hall and Carnegie Library. The soldiers beat and robbed civilians indiscriminately. They threatened off the firefighters who responded. The British government initially denied that the soldiers had anything to do with the blaze, and even after they were proven wrong, none of the soldiers was ever held responsible. Sound familiar? It should. That’s what they do. This particular example is what the new Cardinals song is about.

Lately, theatrical prog overlord Maynard James Keenan has been busier with his self-aware trio Puscifer than with Tool or a Perfect Circle, his more-famous bands. Puscifer’s last album was Existential Reckoning, which came out in 2020. Since then, Puscifer have toured regularly with Primus and with the aforementioned Perfect Circle, and they’ve released the split EP Sessanta E.P.P.P. They’ve also shared “The Algorithm,” a one-off single for an American Psycho comic series. Now, Puscifer have a new album and a tour on the way.

The post-punk-ish Leipzig garage rockers Onyon put out their last album, 2023’s Last Days On Earth, on Chicago’s revered Trouble In Mind label. Now that Trouble In Mind has ceased operations, they’ll release their forthcoming Pale Horses through the Swish Swash and Mangel labels.

Before she released her debut single “Sue Me” back in May, Audrey Hobert was best known as the childhood best friend/frequent songwriting partner of Gracie Abrams. It only took a few months for Hobert to become an ascendant pop star in her own right: Her album Who’s The Clown? came out in August, and last night she promoted it with a musical guest appearance The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, appropriately singing “Sue Me” for her first-ever TV performance.

Mirah first made waves way back in 2000 with her debut You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This, an album that established the then-Olympia-based artist as a fixture of the mid-’90s Pacific Northwest indie rock scene. (Phil Elverum co-produced it, and K Records released it.) Now based in Brooklyn, Mirah got a lot more ears on her music in 2020, when New York’s Double Double Whammy issued a new expanded edition of You Think It’s Like This featuring covers by some of the artists she’s inspired — Flock Of Dimes and Hand Habits, to name just a couple. Today, Mirah has returned with her first new music in seven years, the single “Catch My Breath,” and it also features Flock Of Dimes’ Jenn Wasner and Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy.