It’s been more than five years since Tame Impala released The Slow Rush. It came out before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. That’s a long time, though not much longer than it took Kevin Parker to follow up 2015’s Currents. In the interim, Parker has released a few scattered tracks including the Dungeons & Dragons soundtrack cut “Wings Of Time” …

Olivia Rodrigo has good taste. She has often welcomed music heroes to the stage to perform their classic songs with them, a trend that continued Saturday in her headlining performance at New York’s Governors Ball.

Robbie Williams is getting ready to release Britpop, his first studio album in almost decade. Here’s a good way to promote it: Going out on a big tour, and unexpectedly reuniting with the four other members of 5ive for the first time in 25 years, which he did last night (June 6) in London.

In 2021, two underground extreme-music drum specialists got together to form a duo with the hard-ass name Manslaughter 777. Lee Buford, from the Body and Sightless Pit, and Zac Jones, from MSC and Braveyoung, joined forces to make unpredictable beat music that draws on rave and hip-hop influences. They released a debut album called World Vision Perfect Harmony. Since then …

High Moon Records has announced The First Family: Live At Winchester Cathedral 1967, the earliest known live recording of the pioneering ’60s band Sly & The Family Stone. “I Gotta Go Now (Up On The Floor) / Funky Broadway” is out now as a single.

The metal-leaning label Magnetic Eye has a long-running series called Redux, in which tons of different underground artists pay homage to titans of the form. Yesterday, Magnetic Eye release two Ramones tribute albums, both of which were curated by the Italian-Swiss audio engineer Marc Urselli. One of the compilations is entirely dedicated to the Ramones’ classic 1976 self-titled debut, and …

Belinda Carlisle, the one-time punk who went from singing in the Go-Go’s to solo stardom in the 1980s, has spent the last few decades releasing music in languages besides her native English, such as French on 2007’s Voila and Sikh chants performed in Punjabi on 2017’s Wilder Shores. The Alvvays inspiration returned to English in short-form fashion on 2023’s Kismet …

Last month Kevin Abstract teased something called Blush, which seemed like the follow-up to his 2023 album Blanket. Now, we have confirmation that that is indeed what it is. The former Brockhampton member announced the album yesterday (June 6) and released the single “Geezer” with Dominic Fike.

Portland-based multi-instrumentalist Jason Albertini has been a part of hugely important indie rock bands like Duster and Built To Spill. Back in 2008, Stereogum picked his solo project Helvetia as a very early Band To Watch. Albertini left Duster soon after the band came off hiatus to focus on Helvetia, though he later said that his own mental health was …

Atlanta singer-songwriter Faye Webster has released three albums on Secretly Canadian; Underdressed At The Symphony, the most recent of them, came out last year. Webster has steadily become a bigger and bigger deal during that three-LP run, and two of her older songs, “I Know You” and “Kingston,” have become TikTok hits. Now, Webster is taking things to the next …