Last week Burial returned with two new songs called “Comafields” and “Imaginary Festival,” which are both quite good. Burial is a fan of samples, as is the Swedish musician Jens Lekman. Apparently one of those new Burial songs includes a sample of a Jens Lekman song.

David Roach, lead vocalist for the Los Angeles heavy rockers Junkyard, has died. “After a courageous battle with cancer, David passed away peacefully last night at home, in the loving arms of his wife,” his bandmates wrote on Instagram Saturday. According to Express he was 64, and he had gotten married just two weeks before his death.

Over the past two weeks on his One Last Time tour, Rod Stewart has been dedicating his 1988 hit “Forever Young” to Ozzy Osbourne, who died last month at 76. On the night of the Black Sabbath frontman’s passing, Stewart announced the song as a photo of Osbourne was briefly displayed on the screen behind him — pretty standard. Since …

Lookalike contests — they’re still happening. It all started in October of last year when New Yorkers yearned for Timothée Chalamet copycats, but the trend has taken the world by storm. Yesterday knockoff Conor Obersts gathered in the Bright Eyes frontman’s hometown of Omaha. Well, the singer himself also showed up, and he did not win.

Music critic and YouTube personality Anthony Fantano has issued a public apology after old video clips resurfaced showing him using racial slurs and engaging in content that some viewers found… The post Today In Hip Hop History: Rob Base And DJ EZ Rock Dropped Their Premiere Single “It Takes Two” 37 Years Ago appeared first on .

Dancer are back with another post-punk banger to preview their forthcoming record More Or Less. We’ve heard “Just Say Yes” and “Happy Halloween,” but the newest offering “Baby Blue” is the most invigorating one yet.

Last year, Caroline Polachek performed a beautiful rendition of Radiohead’s “True Love Waits” at Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris. On Thursday (July 31), the experimental-pop musician covered Nick Drake’s “River Man” at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado.

Erik Wunder, the leader of the black metal band Cobalt and the dark folk rock group Man’s Gin, has died. The news was shared by Nachtmystium’s Blake Judd and Abigail Williams’ Ken Sorceron yesterday. He was 42.

Lucy Dacus is living her best life on her Forever Is A Feeling Tour, officiating fans’ marriages, bringing out Hop Along’s Frances Quinlan, and covering Fontaines D.C. Last night she played Montreal’s Osheaga festival, and the singer-songwriter joined the Killers’ set for the Sam’s Town cut “Read My Mind.”

What’s with these homies dissin’ my girl? This is a question Rivers Cuomo has wondered many times, and now Olivia Rodrigo is wondering as well. Last night the pop star — who also recently brought out David Byrne for Talking Heads’ “Burning Down The House” at Gov Ball and Robert Smith for some Cure hits at Glastonbury — was joined …