Chris DeVille

Singer-songwriter Edith Frost, an underrated Drag City great, has not released an album since 2005’s It’s A Game. That will change in February when she returns with new album In Space. (I guess she had to find somewhere else to channel her creative energy after being kicked off Twitter for parodying Elon Musk in 2022.)

Hear an alternate version of "Handshake Drugs" and get all the details.

Bartees Strange is in the middle of rolling out his new album Horror , but he's taking a break from that today to give us a great new holiday single. “Xmas” finds Strange tapping into that Mk.gee/1975 guitar sound and borrowing some melodic phrasing from Donny Hathaway's “This Christmas” in service of pure, uncut seasonal melancholia. “Yeah, it's Christmas/ And you don't even want me at all,” he sings on the chorus. “Wonderin' if you'll ever call/ Christmas at the end of the world.” It sounds like an alternate-universe '90s pop song, and it rules.

The UK producer and Bad Taste label head Lean Low sampled Fugazi for his new song out today. But “Out Of Rhythm,” a collaboration with the R&B singer Jaydonclover, is not the hard-charging dance-rock tune you might expect. The song pulls Ian MacKaye's vocals from “I'm So Tired,” the piano ballad from Instrument , deploying them with in a skipping, hip-hop-influenced collage of sounds, purportedly with MacKaye's full blessing. The track comes with a music video featuring '90s skate videos and footage of the club night Jive Turkey in Lean Low's Sheffield hometown. Watch below.

Last week Jack Harlow teased the release of new music with a photo of his friend and supposed doppelgänger, the musician Mark Zuckerberg , who texts with Harlow but could not identify his music in a recent episode of the web series Track Star . The promised music has arrived today in the form of new single “Hello Miss Johnson.”

He also inserted a deliberately inaccurate scene into his own biopic.

Miley Cyrus was sued in September by Tempo Music Investments, a company that claims to have an ownership stake in the 2013 Bruno Mars chart-topper “When I Was Your Man.” The company claims that Cyrus’s 2023 mega-hit “Flowers” — which returned her to the top of the charts, won the Grammy for Record Of The Year, and became the second biggest song of the year — rips off the Mars track and “would not exist” without it. Today, Cyrus’ legal team has filed their first response to the lawsuit.

Co-produced by Jeff Bhasker and TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek.

On the new Count Your Lucky Stars split.

Since 2007, Vidar Landa has been one of the guitarists and songwriters in Kvelertak, the phenomenal Norwegian band blending black metal with arena-scale classic rock. Today, Landa has unveiled his new solo project. It does not sound like Kvelertak.