The Roadhouse Band is a relatively new entity, but Ryan Davis has been at this forever. The Louisville-area singer-songwriter spent over a decade making “punked-up country gunk” with State Champion, a band he formed with close friends, born out of youthful abandon. In 2007, to release State Champion’s earliest music, he launched the record label Sophomore Lounge, which has built …

Last month Norwegian artist and producer Marit Othilie Thorvik aka Jouska released her single “Flower Moon.” Today, she’s back with another single “Pierced.” to announce a new album How Did I Wind Up Here? that’s out Oct. 17 via Koke Plate. “Pierced.” is misty and intimate dream pop, reminiscent of Portishead and Beach House.

After playing a whole bunch of UK/European festivals this summer, Chappell Roan has some fun things planned back in the States this fall. Today the star has announced a run of pop-up shows in three US cities: New York, Pasadena, and Kansas City. It looks like she’ll be releasing new music before then, too.

Chuck Mangione has died. A member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and later the Jazz Brothers, the flugelhornist and trumpeter had his greatest success as a solo artist with the smooth jazz instrumental “Feels So Good,” a #4 hit in 1978. Mangione passed away this week in his Rochester, NY hometown. He was 84.

Last month Deerhoof announced that they were in the process of getting their music removed from Spotify, citing CEO Daniel Ek’s $700 million investment in a military AI startup. Today another experimental rock band has also announced their intentions to sever ties with the company. “Spotify uses music money to invest in AI war drones,” Xiu Xiu wrote on their …

Irish-language rap group Kneecap have been fervently and continuously using their platform to raise awareness about the genocide happening in Palestine. They’ve gotten a lot of shit about it, including calls from right-wing politicians to kick them off the Glastonbury lineup, and just last month member Mo Chara appeared in court for a terrorism charge by the UK government. Now, …

Tyler, The Creator dropped his concise and electric new dancefloor-ready album Don’t Tap The Glass on us Monday morning on just a few days’ notice. The night before the album’s release, he hosted a phone-free listening session in LA that turned into an uninhibited dance party. Wednesday night in Brooklyn, Tyler threw another pop-up event promoting the album. This time …

Actress Margaret Qualley’s latest lead role is in Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t, which is out Aug. 22. It’s the second installment of the “lesbian B-movie trilogy” that Coen wrote with his wife Tricia Cooke, following last year’s Drive-Away Dolls. Qualley plays Honey O’Donahue, a private investigator that’s looking into a series of murders tied to a mysterious church. It doesn’t …

The past couple years for GloRilla have been full of some extremely high highs and some unfortunate lows. The success of her awesome single “Yeah Glo!” led to a strong debut album and even an SNL appearance, but she’s also dealt with setbacks like a drunk driving arrest and a St. Louis show where so many fights were breaking out …

The multi-instrumentalist and composer Patrick Shiroishi has made so much beautiful music: under his own name, with groups like Fuubutsushi, and as a sideman for countless artists from the Armed to Claire Rousay. He’s got a new solo album coming in September called Forgetting Is Violent. It’s a meditation on the history of racism and colonialism: “Stemming back to my …