It happens every year: The Grammys release their nominees for Best New Artist, and the list contains acts far too established to be described as “new.” But musicians have to be submitted for consideration in these categories, which means either the artist or someone from their business operation thrust them into that conversation.

My Morning Jacket almost didn’t make it this far. In 2004, while touring their milestone 2003 album It Still Moves, the band fragmented. Two members quit, including keyboardist Danny Cash and guitarist Johnny Quaid, the cousin and right-hand man to MMJ mastermind Jim James. Despondent, James considered this might be the end of the band, until his publisher begged him …

A couple of days ago, Fucked Up made a big announcement. After nearly 20 years, they’re finally ready to finish their sprawling Zodiac series — the run of long, complicated, increasingly ambitious records, each dedicated to a different year of the Chinese Zodiac calendar. The final three installments will be spread out over five LPs, which means we’re looking at …

“I got mad questions for you,” said Kanye West. Fiona Apple said, “No.” Apple was supposed to be asking the questions. This was the whole thing. The two artists had never spoken before, and she’d never interviewed anyone. But here, Kanye West and Fiona Apple both had new albums coming out, so Interview put the two of them on the …

Last year, the great Baltimore post-hardcore band Truth Cult announced their breakup and played their final show. Almost immediately afterward, Truth Cult’s electric frontman Parris Roberts launched his new band No Idols. The No Idols demo came out about a week after the last Truth Cult show, and it sounds absolutely nothing like Truth Cult. The new band’s lineup also …

Weirs is an oft-morphing musical collective based in central North Carolina, whose performances reportedly have featured between two and 12 members. Diamond Grove, out today, is their second album and first for Philly’s esteemed Dear Life Records. Recorded two years ago in the titular Diamond Grove region in Brunswick County, VA, it’s extremely deserving of your attention, and perhaps even …

In a few weeks, the great Texan garage-punks Radioactivity will release Time Won’t Bring Me Down, their first new album in a decade. Time has not brought them down. When the band shared the title track last month, it was our favorite new song of that week. Today, we get to hear another one.

Jimmy Kimmel Live is back on the air, and this week the show is once again taping in Brooklyn rather than its usual home base of Los Angeles. The best musical moment of the week came when Geese performed “Taxes” Wednesday night. But Thursday night, Kimmel welcomed a musical figure almost as brilliant and important as Cameron Winter.

We’re in prime HEALTH season right now. The LA band won’t release their new album Conflict DLC until December, but their music is ideal for spooky circumstances. That’s maybe a dumb and obvious thing to say about heavy, ominous, atmospheric music, but it’s true. HEALTH’s new song “Vibe Cop,” for instance, combines juddering industrial metal riffage with soft, spectral vocals. …