Norwegian alt-pop mainstay Anna Of The North released the dreamy disco-synthpop single “Give Me Your Love Back” in July. Today she’s returned with “Waiting For Love,” which suggests the first song’s command was not heeded. The new song’s effervescent pulse carries along Anna Lotterud’s gargantuan chorus: “It’s so unfair/ I was waiting for love, and love was not there/ It’s …

It’s not entirely clear how this happened, but the beloved mystery-solving cartoon dog Scooby-Doo has now entered the lofi chill-beats music genre that populates so many Spotify playlists. WaterTower Music, the label associated with Warner Bros., has released a new album called Lofi Scooby-Doo, which includes a spaced-out version of the classic theme song “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?” and a …

Last year, alt-rock legends Smashing Pumpkins released their album Aghori Mhori Mei without dropping any advance singles ahead of time. Last month, frontman Billy Corgan joined My Chemical Romance onstage in Chicago to play the Pumpkins classic “Bullet With Butterfly Wings.” Now, Smashing Pumpkins are getting ready for a tour of Asia, and they’ve just shared a new one-off single.

Madison Cunningham is making the rounds. Last year the folk-rock singer-songwriter teamed with Andrew Bird on Cunningham Bird, an album-length remake of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks’ Buckingham Nicks (which, incidentally, is finally being reissued next week). She’s on Margaret Glaspy’s new covers EP out today, duetting on the Magnetic Fields’ “The Book Of Love.” And she’s just released a …

Weezer have already had a couple of huge music-festival moments this year. In April, they played a last-minute Coachella set, using it to announce that they’re making a new movie, even though bassist Scott Steiner’s wife had just been shot by police days before. In August, Weezer joined Olivia Rodrigo as surprise guests during her Lollapalooza headlining set, and they …

Mac DeMarco is out there making all the promo stops in support of his new album Guitar, and he couldn’t be happier about it. In a recent New Yorker profile headlined “Is Mac DeMarco The Last Indie Rock Star?” he explained that he cannot relate with musicians who complain about going on tour:

Look, I don’t know what to tell you. Things happen. We don’t get to control current events. You might not be delighted to learn that Limp Bizkit have released a new song called “Makin’ Love To Morgan Wallen,” but that’s what happened. It’s a real song. It’s out on the marketplace now. Someone, somewhere, is going to be happy about …

Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album Wish You Were Here on September 12, 1975, which means that today is that LP’s 50th anniversary. Much of the album’s running time was given over to “Shine On You Crazy Diamond,” the band’s nine-part tribute to their troubled ex-frontman Syd Barrett. Wish You Were Here got tepid reviews when it first came …

Yumi Zouma recently went to see Oasis, but they’ve been busy with their own music too. All year the Christchurch combo has been kicking out new songs — “Bashville On The Sugar,” “Blister,” “Cross My Heart And Hope To Die” — and they can now confirm that all of those songs are on No Love Lost To Kindness, their first …

Earlier this year, Stereolab unveiled Instant Holograms On Metal Film, their first album in 15 years. Today, the avant-pop wizards are back with two new songs, “Fed Up With Your Job” and “Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown.”